Dmitry Paperno

Dmitry Oleksandrovych Paperno^[a] (18 February 1929 – 12 October 2020) was a Soviet and American concert pianist.

Paperno was born in Kyiv. In 1955, Paperno won 6th Prize in the V International Chopin Piano Competition, and then recorded and performed widely throughout the Soviet Union. He attended the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Alexander Goldenweiser.^[1] Paperno recorded for Melodiya and prior to recording with Cedille Records.^[2] Paperno became a tenured professor at DePaul University after moving to the United States in 1976.^[1] He is the author of the book Notes of a Moscow Pianist. He died in 2020 in Northbrook, Illinois.