Mikhail Voskresensky

He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1958,[2] where he studied under Ilya Klyachko, Boris Zemliansky, Yakov Milstein, Lev Oborin (piano) and Leonid Roizman (organ).

As student of the famous Lev Oborin,[3] the winner of the First International Chopin Piano Competition in 1927, Voskresensky was influenced by his teacher's refined taste and romanticism in his deployment of pianistic sonorities.

[4] In 1957, Voskresensky took part in the Prague Spring International Music Festival where he performed the European premiere of Shostakovich's second Piano Concerto in the presence of the composer.

[6] His pupils have won 126 international prizes including 55 gold medals, including among them Stanislav Igolinsky, Amir Tebenikhin, Tamriko Siprashvili, Temirzhan Erzhanov, Yakov Kasman, Alexander Ghindin, Sergei Koudriakov, Sergei Kuznezov, Evelina Vorontsova, Elena Kuznetsova, Mikhail Yanovitsky, Kooryeong Park, Oleg Marshev, Yury Favorin, Varvara Nepomnyaschaya, Sergey Neller, Galina Chistyakova,Kyohei Sorita and others.

From 2001 to 2004, Professor Voskresensky taught in Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo where his pupils won 12 different prizes, including Akiko Yamamoto's triumph at the Schumann International Competition in Zwickau in 2004.

Mikhail Voskresensky has acted as a competition juror in Sydney, London, Leeds, Geneva, Hamamatsu, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and many other places.