The top ten piano celebrities in the world are as follows:
1. Yevgeny Kissin
Yevgeny Kissin was born in 1971 in A pianist from Moscow, Russia, known as "the most amazing piano genius in the second half of the 20th century". He graduated from the Gnessin Music School in Moscow and received the Russian Triumph Award, one of the highest honors in Russian culture, becoming the youngest pianist in Russia to win this award.
2. Grigory Sokolov
Gregory Sokolov, a talented pianist born in Russia in 1950, is recognized as a classical pianist. One of the giants in the music industry.
3. Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich, a female pianist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941, He won first prize in the 1957 Geneva Piano Competition and the 7th Chopin Piano Competition. He is also one of the greatest contemporary pianists who received the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award.
4. Christian Zimmerman
Christian Zimmerman, a pianist born in Poland in 1956, won the Polish National Piano Competition in 1973 He also won the first prize in the Prokofiev Piano Competition in Poland. At the age of 19, he also won the first prize in the 9th Chopin International Piano Competition. His recording of "Complete Preludes" is his representative work. It also won the Gramophone Outstanding Recording Award.
5. Mark Andrew Hamelin
Mark Andrew Hamelin, a famous contemporary Canadian pianist who has become a top master at the International Piano Festival, won the award in 2000 with his He won the Gramophone Solo Award for his 2 recordings of Chopin etudes.
6. Murray Pellecia
Murray Pellecia, an American pianist born in the United States, performed well at the 1972 Leeds International Piano Competition. He showed amazing strength and won the first place in the competition. In 2004, he also won the title of "Second Class Senior Knight of the British Empire" personally awarded by the Queen of England. He has the following honors after Horowitz, Serkin, and He has the reputation of being the first person after Gould and others.
7. Daniel Trifonov
Daniel Trifonov is a Russian pianist who was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia in 1991. He won the gold medal in the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, the bronze medal in the Chopin Piano Competition, and the gold medal in the San Mario Piano Competition. In 2011, Gergiev specially awarded the pianist the highest award.
8. Lang Lang
Lang Lang is a Chinese piano player. He was born in 1982. He graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in the United States. He began his career in 1997 and has won many awards. He has won awards such as the German Echo Classical Award, the American Dushkin Award, and the Gold Medal of the Tchaikovsky International Youth Music Competition. He has also been awarded the title of United Nations Messenger of Peace. His representative works include "New York Rhapsody" and "Lang Lang in Paris".
9. Hélène Grimaud
Hélène Grimaud, a female pianist who graduated from the French Conservatory of Music, won the 1985 Jacques Rouve Prize. The first place winner in the Yale Classical Music Competition, he started his career in 1987 and held his first piano solo concert after participating in the Piano Festival, and has successively cooperated with well-known symphony orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra.
10. Maurizio Pollini
Maurizio Pollini, a famous pianist born in Italy, participated in the Geneva International Piano Competition at the age of 15 and won the He won second place in one fell swoop and was nominated again for the Chopin International Piano Competition in 1960. Competition judge Arthur Rubinstein also spoke highly of him, and he was praised by contemporary society as the authority in interpreting Chopin's music.