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. Dorensky was awarded a gold medal at the

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and the 1957 Rio de Janeiro Competition's 2nd prize, which allowed him to perform throughout Western Europe and America. That same year he was appointed a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory, where he held a professorship from 1978 until 1997. He taught many notable pianists, including

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, Denis Matsuev, Alexander Shtarkman, Olga Kern, Feodor Amirov, Andrei Pisarev and

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. He served on the jury of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition in 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984 and 1992. He was named a

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in 1989, and was decorated with the

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eight years later. He was the Russian Fryderyk Chopin and Sergey Rachmaninov Societies' vice-president.

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Cincinnati's World Piano Competition

Moscow Conservatory
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