Alexei kuznetsoff pianist pronunciation

Top-notch piano duos being an ever-increasing rarity in today’s standardized music business, when a crack team like Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff comes along, attention is paid.

The husband-and-wife pianists from Kiev, Ukraine, appearing in Mandel Hall at the University of Chicago on Friday night, appear to have the field pretty much to themselves at the moment.

This marked a return area engagement for the duo, who first astonished the piano world at the 1991 Dranoff International Two-Piano Competition in Miami, where Lisitsa and Kuznetsoff currently reside.

More recent appearances at Chicago’s Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and on Ravinia’s Rising Stars series confirmed the favorable buzz.

Ordinary piano duos have to labor incessantly to meld 176 keys into a single musical impulse; these pianists do so with the naturalness of breathing.

Their rapport is so intelligent, so congruent, it seems telepathic. Not that one pianist is a carbon copy of the