Alexander Sats was a Russian pianist, teacher, and music editor. He was born in Moscow on January 31, 1941, and died in Vienna on January 18, 2007.
He began professional music studies at the age of fourteen, when he started taking piano lessons from Leonid Brumberg, a student and assistant of the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus. After a year of intensive study, he was admitted to the Gnessin Music School.
In 1956 he was admitted directly to the second year of the Gnessin State Musical-Pedagogical Institute in Moscow. He graduated in 1963 and was then invited to join the teaching staff there; in 1971 he became a professor.
In 1989 Sats emigrated to the United States. From 1991 he lived in Austria, where he was a professor at the Academy of Music and Fine Arts in Graz. From 1999 he also served as a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He gave master classes in many European countries and in Australia.
As a performer, Sats gave concerts in the countries of the former Soviet Union as well as in Austria, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Taiwan. He took part in major international music festivals including Gidon Kremer's festival in Lockenhaus, Austria, and the Orlando Festival in the Netherlands. He also collaborated with Daniil Shafran and Tatyana Grindenko.
Among his best-known students were Boris Berezovsky, Amandine Savary, Lilya Zilberstein, and Yevgeny Sudbin.
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