Solomon Mikowsky

Solomon Mikowsky's pupils have won over 100 top prizes in some of the most important international competitions, including the Artist Gilmore Award and first prizes in the Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv), Santander, Beethoven (Bonn), Iturbi (Valencia) and Maria Canals (Barcelona), and other top prizes in the Tchaikovsky, Dublin, Sviatoslav Richter (Moscow), Vianna da Motta (Lisbon), Cleveland and E-Competition (Minneapolis). They have performed as soloists with the Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Berlin, Budapest, Czech, Liverpool, Munich, St. Petersburg, Vancouver and Jerusalem symphony orchestras; the Berlin, London, Moscow, Rotterdam, Royal, Milan's Scala and Israel philharmonic orchestras; the Zürich Tonhalle; the Dresden Staatskappelle Orchestra and the Orchestre National de France, with such noted conductors as Comissiona, Dutoit, Ehrling, Eschenbach, Fischer, Frübeck de Burgos, Gielen, Herbig, Macal, Masur, Semkow, Skrowaczewski and Zinman. He has served in the juries of numerous international competitions, and has given masterclasses at the leading conservatories in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Budapest, Salzburg, London, Paris, Münich, Tel-Aviv, throughout Australia and the Far East. A Juilliard graduate with a doctorate from Columbia University, he studied with Gorodnitzki, the foremost pupil of the legendary Russian virtuoso Josef Lhevinne.