Oleg Maisenberg ^People

Few months after his birth, the family settled in Chisināu. He comple- ted his studies at the Central Music School Chisināu and at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow with Professor Jocheles. In 1967 he won the second prize at the International Schubert Competition in Vienna, where in the same year he won the first prize in the competition Music of the 20th Century.Maisenberg has appeared at most of the major festival venues in Salzburg, Vienna, Lockenhaus, Lucerne, Berlin, Florence, Edinburgh, Piano Festival Ruhr and Sviatoslav Richter Festival in Moscow, among others, and has performed as arecitalist throughout the world. His repertoire encompasses all stylistic epochs - his particularpreference being the music of the 19th century.In 1981 Oleg Maisenberg emigrated to Vienna. Since then he has appearedwith the Israel Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, with the conductors Christoph von Dohnányi, Zubin Mehta, Eugene Ormandy, Herbert Blomstedt, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Neeme Järvi, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Georges Prêtre, Alain Lombard, Michel Plasson, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Vladimir Fedosejev, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. In April 1995 Oleg Maisenberg was awarded the title of Honorary Member of the Wiener Konzerthaus Society.