Yuri Rozum

Yuri Rozum (Russian: Юрий Александрович Розум; born 22 February 1954 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian-born concert pianist and philanthropist.

His father was baritone Alexander Rozum and his mother was Galina Rozhdestvenskaya, conductor of the Russian Academic Folk Choir.

When Rozum was only age seven, his mother discovered that he had perfect pitch, leading to his immediate enrolment in the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory, where he would later study under Lev Naumov and Yevgeny Malinin, themselves students of Heinrich Neuhaus.

Due to political reasons, Soviet authorities denied his visa and almost immediately drafted him into the military where he would be totally separated from performing on piano for eighteen months.

Polls taken by Russian media place Rozum within that country's list of "Top Ten Classical Musicians in Russia.