Sergueï Markarov,

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and

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, was born in

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in 1953. He studied in

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and

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. He won the first prize for piano, teaching,

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and accompaniment at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in Leningrad and the 1982 Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition in

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. Since 1993, he has been performing in Europe’s most prestigious concert halls and at many festivals. He is also a member of several international competition juries and teaches at the

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'' Ecole Normale de musique and Conservatoire municipal Jacques Ibert de Paris''.

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External links

Sergueï Markarov's official site
1953 births Russian pianists Living people Musicians from Baku 21st-century Russian pianists {{Pianist-stub