Yakov Kasman’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Russian musician
Is Musician 
Pianist 
From Russia 
Type Music 
Gender male
Birth 24 February 1967, Oryol
Age: 53 years

Yakov Kasman (b. February 24, 1967) is a Russian classical pianist, professor of piano, and artist-in-residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Since his American debut as the silver medalist at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1997, Yakov Kasman has performed concerts in the United States, Russia, and Asia, and appeared as a soloist with more than fifty orchestras.
Kasman became an American citizen in 2006.

Career

He has performed piano concertos and recitals at numerous summer festivals including Brevard, the Peninsula, Las Vegas, Lake Placid, Sewanee and the Grand Teton winter festival. Active as a chamber musician, he has collaborated with the Manhattan, Parissi, Charleston, Shanghai, Tokyo and Talich String Quartets. He regularly gives master classes and serves as competition juror.

Reference Orchestras

Kasman and appeared as soloist with more than fifty orchestras. The list includes:

  • the Pacific, Syracuse, Omaha, Oregon, Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Ft. Worth, Alabama, Huntsville and Montgomery Symphonies
  • the Athens – Greece State Orchestra
  • the Orchestra de Lille in France
  • the Orquestra Simfonica de Baleares, Spain
  • the Singapore Symphony
  • the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan
  • the Daejeon Philharmonic in Korea
  • the Moscow Philharmonia Orchestra
  • the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
  • the Alabama Symphony Orchestra

Discography

Kasman has 14 CD recordings with Calliope and Harmonia Mundi.

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