
Amir Tebenikhin (born 1977) is a
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
i pianist.
He won the 1999
Vianna da Motta Competition - the last winner for 11 years when Akopova won the competition. He subsequently made his recording debut for
Naxos Records
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and performed at the
Carnegie Hall
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, the Salle Pleyel and the
Wigmore Hall
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.
He later ranked 6th at the inaugural
Sendai International Music Competition
The Sendai International Music Competition is a triennial violin and piano music competition held in Sendai, Japan, presented in association with the Sendai International Music Competition Organizing Committee, Sendai, City of Sendai and the Sen ...
, obtained a diploma at the 2003
Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
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and was awarded 3rd prize at the 2004 Glasgow Competition. In 2007, Tebenikhin won the
Anton Rubinstein Competition and reached the semi-finals of the II Beethoven Competition in Bonn.
References
Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
Hamamatsu Competition
Beethoven Competition
Scottish International Piano Competition, Glasgow
ArkivMusic
Kazakhstani classical pianists
Living people
1977 births
Anton Rubinstein Competition prize-winners
21st-century classical pianists
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