Solomon Mikowsky

Solomon Mikowsky’s students have won over 150 international piano competitions including the Rubinstein in Tel-Aviv (3 winners including 1st prize), Tschaikovsky and Sviatoslav Richter in Moscow, Van Cliburn (Special Award), Beethoven in Bonn (1st prize), Schumann in Leipzig (1st prize), Dublin, Vianna da Motta (2 winners), Porto (2 winners), Andorra (4 winners including two 1st prizes), China International Competition (2 winners), Panama (9 winners including three 1st prizes), Viña del Mar in Chile, Montreal (2 winners), Cleveland, New Orleans (1st prize), Naumburg, Minnesota E-Competition (2 winners), Hilton Head, World Competition in Cincinnati (3 winners including 1st prize), Chopin Kosciuszko in New York (10 winners including eight 1st prizes), and more than 25 winners of the Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competitions. They have also won many competitions in Spain, including the Santander (1st prize), Maria Canals in Barcelona (8 winners including three 1st prizes), Iturbi in Valencia (4 winners including two 1st prizes), Jaén (6 winners including 1st prize), Pilar Bayona in Zaragoza (5 winners including 1st prize), Guerrero in Madrid (3 winners including 1st prize) and Carlet (four 1st prize winners). Mikowsky’s students have also been recipients of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award ($300,000) and the Avery Fisher Artist Career Grant. Mikowsky’s students have performed as soloists with the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Berlin, Budapest, Frankfurt, Jerusalem, Munich, St. Petersburg and Tokyo symphony orchestras; the BBC, Berlin, Dresden, London (Royal), Moscow, New York, Rotterdam and Israel philharmonic orchestras; the Zürich Tonhalle; the Dresden Staatskappelle Orchestra and the national orchestras of Finland, France, Mexico and the Czech Republic, with such noted conductors as Comissiona, Dudamel, Dutoit, Ehrling, Eschenbach, Fischer, Frübeck de Burgos, Gielen, Graf, Herbig, Macal, Masur, Semkow, Skrowaczewski and Zinman.