Cyprien Katsaris (Greek: Κυπριανός Κατσαρής; born 5 May 1951) is a French-Cypriot virtuoso pianist, teacher and composer.
Amongst his teachers were Monique de la Bruchollerie, a student of Emil von Sauer, who had been a pupil of Franz Liszt.
[3] As well as piano, Katsaris studied chamber music with René Leroy and Jean Hubeau, and he won First Prize for this in 1970.
[5] Katsaris was the second musician to record the complete Liszt transcriptions of Beethoven's nine symphonies, after İdil Biret – reissued by Warner Classics in 2006.
[6][irrelevant citation] He has also recorded the music of Mozart, Chopin, Grieg, and other composers, including the rare piano version of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Brigitte Fassbaender and Thomas Moser.