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Death of a Russian piano legend, 75

Death of a Russian piano legend, 75

The death has been reported of Alexander Mndoyants, one of Moscow’s most respected piano teachers.

A finalist in the 1977 Van Cliburn Competition – alongside Sasha Toradze, Michel Dalberto and the shortlived winner Steven De Groote – Mndoyan joined the Moscow Conservatory as a junior teacher in 1979 and had to wait until 2004 before being made full professor.

He disliked training students for competitions, encouraging them to follow his own unflashy, introspective example.

His son Nikita Mndoyants won the 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition.

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