Yakov Izrailevich Zak ( (Russian: Яков Израилевич Зак), Jiakov Israilevič Sak; Odessa, 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1913 – Moscow, 28 June 1976) was a Soviet and Russian pianist and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1966).
Born in Odessa, Zak studied piano at the Odessa Conservatory with Maria Starkhova, took classes on special harmony with Mykola Vilinsky, and later studied with Heinrich Neuhaus in Moscow, graduating in 1935.[1] Having made his debut in 1935, he rose to prominence[2] when he won First Prize and the Mazurka Prize at the III International Chopin Piano Competition in 1937. From 1935 Zak taught at the Moscow Conservatory, becoming a professor in 1947 and being granted a chair in 1965. His pupils include Eliso Virsaladze, Irina Zaritskaya, Nikolai Petrov, Evgeny Mogilevsky, Svetlana Navasardyan, Lyubov Timofeyeva, Valery Afanassiev, Ludmila Knezkova-Hussey, Vladimir Bakk, and Youri Egorov.
^Slonimsky, Nicolas (1978). "Zak, Yakov". Baker's Biographical dictionary of musicians (6th ed.). New York: Schirmer Books. p. 1935. ISBN 0-02-870240-9.
^Jean-Pierre Thiollet, 88 notes pour piano solo, "Solo nec plus ultra", Neva Editions, 2015, p. 51. ISBN 978 2 3505 5192 0.
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his hometown Odesa, Ukraine. Later studied with Heinrich Neuhaus and YakovZak at the Moscow Conservatory. He was the father of pianists Maxim and Alexander...
age 17. One of his early teachers was Irina Dubinina, a former pupil of YakovZak. At the age of 17, in 1971, Egorov took 4th Prize in Paris at the Marguerite...
Cherkassky, Emil Gilels, Maria Grinberg, Simon Barere, Leo Podolsky and YakovZak. (Note: Richter studied in Odesa but was not born there.) The Odesa International...
his teacher was Tatyana Kestner and in 1961 Petrov entered the class of YakovZak at the Conservatory itself. He subsequently won second prize at the Van...
the Academic Music College and Moscow Conservatory with Emil Gilels and YakovZak. He was the winner of the Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1968, as well...
her education as a postgraduate student at the Moscow Conservatory with YakovZak. She has also played for A. Goldenweiser and N. Perelman many times. She...
Armenian classical concert pianist. A disciple of Vache Umr-Shat and YakovZak, she first stood out at the East German musical scene, being awarded prizes...
into YakovZak's class and received lessons from Yakov Flier. She received her graduation diploma in 1963. While still a student under YakovZak, Zaritskaya...
songwriter, 66 June 28 Malcolm Lockyer, film composer and conductor, 52 YakovZak, pianist and music teacher, 62 August 2 – Cecilia (singer), Spanish singer-songwriter...
Margerita Trombini-Kazuro [pl] Imré Ungár Maria Wiłkomirska (substitute) YakovZak ( III) Carlo Zecchi Jerzy Żurawlew For the first time, the jury did not...
Libertas Schulze-Boysen, German opponent of the Nazis (d. 1942) 1913 – YakovZak, Soviet pianist (d. 1976) 1914 – Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer...
continued his studies at the Moscow Conservatory in Moscow at nineteen under YakovZak, Boris Zemliansky, and Lev Naumov, graduating in 1978. In 1977, Toradze...
number of outstanding musicians, such as David Oistrakh, Emil Gilels and YakovZak. After the Russian revolution, because of the imminent threat of Bolshevik...
International Chopin Piano Competition begins in Warsaw (the winner was YakovZak), March 1: Warsaw I station of the Polskie Radio (Polish Radio) is opened...
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