Mark Zeltser ^People

While still a student, Mark Zeltser entered and won several major competi-tions, including the National Competition in Moscow, Grand Prix at the Marguerite Long-Jacques 'Thibaud Competition in Paris, and the Busoni Prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy. He graduated from the conservatory with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Zeltser then served as a professor at the Conservatory and at the Moldovan State Conservatory, before beginning his performing career. Since 1977, he has conducted master classes at various festivals and teaching programs throughout the United States, Eastern and Western Europe, Korea, Japan and Australia. In 1983, a concert by Zeltser in Bologna, Italy, attracted an audience of over 50,000, which has been claimed to be an all-time record for paid publie attendance for classical music. Zeltser has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, thePhiladelphiaOrchestra, the New YorkPhilharmonic, theBostonSymphonyOrchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, l'Orchestre National de France, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1998 was appointed Professor of Music at the Centenary College of Louisiana.