Dmitri Novgorodsky

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Dmitri Novgorodsky is a classical pianist. He is the first Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory graduate in piano performance and the first Russian-Soviet musician who has earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance degree from Yale University. He is currently an associate professor of music performance at Ithaca College.

Novgorodsky was born into a family of musicians in 1965 in Odessa, the former USSR. He began to play the piano at age five and was admitted into a special music school for gifted children a year later. By the age of 16, Mr. Novgorodsky had won the First Prize at the Kazakhstan National Piano Competition, and later the Gold Medal of the Kazakhstan National Festival of the Arts.[1][2][3][4][5] In 1990, he graduated from the studio of professor Victor Merzhanov at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with high honors and qualifications of concert pianist, chamber musician and teacher.[6] In 1992, he was offered a full scholarship to study at Yale University with Boris Berman.[7] While at Yale, Novgorodsky received four Distinguished Honorary Awards for the best piano recitals and a Special Faculty Prize to an outstanding pianist in the graduating class.[8]

In 1998, he was granted the "Extraordinary Abilities in the Arts" permanent US residence.[9]

He graduated from Yale in 2003.[10][11] Novgorodsky became an American citizen in 2004.

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