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Yevgeny Mogilevsky was born in Odessa in 1945. He comes from a famous musical family. His grandfather, Alexander Mogilevsky, was a celebrated violonist who toured worldwide, often performing with Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Medtner. His parents were both musicians and professors at the Odessa Conservatory. He first studied with his mother and gave his first public concert at the age of nine.
Difficulties arose from his childhood: he was not accepted at the Stoliarsky School of Music because of the anti-semitism and nationalism was in force during the time of Stalin. It required considerable effort on the part of Professor Heinrich Neuhaus who did not hesitate to complain to the Soviet Minister for Culture so that the Ukranian authorities were obliged to allow the young Yevgeny Mogilevsky to study at the Stoliarsky School. In 1963, he passed the entrance examination for the Moscow Conservatory and entered the class of Heinrich Neuhaus, who had previously prepared Gilels and Richter.
In 1964, Mogilevsky was one of the Soviet delegation's candidates to Brussels at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, where he won first prize at the age of 18. This triumph was followed by many invitations, notably from distinguished conductors such as André Cluytens, at the head of the Orchestre de Paris, and Bernard Heitink, conductor of the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. Sol Hurok organised several concerts in the United States on Mogilevsky's behalf, but none of these ever took place. Mogilevsky was not allowed to leave the country and was represented as being either too busy or ill.
Yevgeny Mogilevsky learned by accident that he had been granted an award by the English "Harriet Cohen International Music Awards" foundation. However, he could only play in the West (The Netherlands) in 1969. New invitations continued to arrive, notably from Charles Munch, as well as for concerts in Canada, Australia and for the festival of Edinburgh, but Mogilevsky would not be authorized to play in the West until 1974. In 1973, in the United States, he won the prize for the best recording of the year, awarded by the Critic's Association of the Stereo Review magazine, for his recording of the Rachmaninoff Third Concerto with Kiril Kondrashin conducting the Moscow Philharmonic.
Finaly, in 1974, the conductor Yevgeny Svetlanov invited him as soloist when the National State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R. toured Germany, Austria, Italy, and Belgium. Until 1980, he performed in the West: Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Philippines, and Japan. He recorded with Victor and RCA. At the same time, he became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory.
Suddently, in 1980, a situation similar to that of 1964 was repeated. Mogilevsky was refused a passport to travel abroad and was no longer permitted to perform in the West, and even though he continued to receive many invitations, among others from Yevgeny Mravinsky, head of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and many western impresarios, nothing happened.
Finally, in 1987, he was permitted to serve as a member of the jury of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition. Since then, Mogilevsky has performed in Belgium, France and England. In 1989, he made his debut in London at the Royal Festival Hall with Svetlanov at the head of the English Philharmonia. He also conducted master classes at Tours and in Poland. In 1990, an extensive Australian debut tour took him from Melbourne to Singapore. He made his American debut in 1991 in San Francisco under the auspices of Today's Artists Concerts and in 1992 did his Carnegie Hall Debut in New York.
Mr Mogilevsky's recent recordings include, on the Pavane label, an all-Chopin CD which includes the 24 Preludes and other works, and a CD of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto with the Moscow Philharmonic on the Melodyda/Victor, Japan label.
Here is what Bernard Holland wrote in New York Times on October 27, 1992:
"Yevgeny Mogilevsky has a technique and musicality built for big places. When Schumann's "Kreisleriana" asked for speed on Sunday afternoon, Mr. Mogilevsky had it in excess. When the "Arabesque" stipulated rubato, Mr. Mogilevsky was broad as broad could be. When the Prokofiev Eighth Sonata required extravagant pounding, this 47-year-old Russian pianist was the man for the job.
Mr. Mogilevsky's ear for phrasing is very true, if a little too intent on grandeur. In Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit" he could render "Ondine" with the most beautiful sound imaginable. The "Scarbo" movement is the measure of any pianist's technique; Mr. Mogilevsky can actually play it too fast.
After almost 30 years of struggling with Soviet authorities over permission to play in the West, Mr. Mogilevsky was making his second United States appearance and his New York debut"
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