JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

After her second diploma in 2009 she continued her studies with professor Stefan Arnold. She is awardee of several international competitions in: the Ukraine, Slovakia (Kosice), F. Chopin competition in Poland (Antonin), F. Chopin competition in Estonia (Narva).In 2009 Anastasiia Dombrovska in Duo with Èdua Zádory won first prize at the prestige Gaetano Zinetti international chamber music competition in Sanguinetto / Verona. In the same year she won the main price - Bluethner Grand Piano at the "Bluethner Golden Tone Award competition 2009" in Vienna, Austria. In 2012 Anastasiia Dombrovska graduated in Master of Arts at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. In April 2012 Anastasiia Dombrovska with Èdua Zádory recorded CD by "Gramola". She has already played with several symphonic orchestras, as Szczecin (Poland), Tallinn (Estonia), Kiev (Ukraine), Czernowitz (Ukraine). She plays several concerts as a solist, as well as a chamber musician.

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche