Mikhail Rudy (Russian: Михаил Рудый: born 3 April 1953) is a French pianist, who has won several awards for his recordings including the Grand Prix du disque.
He greatly impressed the jury at the Marguerite Long Competition in 1975 through his performance of Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata (regarded as among the most challenging solo works in the entire piano repertoire) in which he won the First Prize.
He made his debut in Paris on the occasion of Marc Chagall's 90th birthday in 1977,[3] performing Beethoven's Triple Concerto with Mstislav Rostropovitch and Isaac Stern.
[2] From then on Rudy's career included performances with such world-famous orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic and renowned conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Herbert von Karajan and Michael Tilson Thomas.
He has also written and performed a theatrical and musical play after Władysław Szpilman's book The Pianist along with French actor Robin Renucci.