Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kaprin, born on 4 December 1977 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), USSR, is a pianist, prize-winner of international competitions, and professor of the Moscow Conservatory. He was born into a working-class family.
At the age of 14, Kaprin won second prize at an international piano competition in the Czech Republic. In 1995 he graduated from the Central Music School, where he studied in the class of Alexander Bakulov. In the same year he became a laureate of the 1st International A. N. Scriabin Piano Competition, receiving second prize, and was also awarded a special Heinrich and Stanislav Neuhaus Prize established by RIA Novosti.
After entering the Moscow Conservatory, Kaprin completed his studies there in 2000. In 1998, while still a student, he became a laureate of the José Iturbi International Piano Competition in Valencia. In 2002 he finished an assistant internship under Eliso Virsaladze, and from 2002 to 2003 continued postgraduate study with Alexander Mikhailovich Merkulov in the specialty of musical art.
After completing his studies, Kaprin became an associate professor of the Chamber Ensemble and Quartet Department at the Moscow Conservatory. Since 2008 he has worked as an assistant to Professor Virsaladze. In 2018 he gave master classes together with violinist Anna Sokolova.
Kaprin is married to harpist Elizaveta Lidova, and they have a child. His playing has received differing critical assessments: Yuri Danilin of Literaturnaya Gazeta described it as very correct but impersonal, while Yevgeny Epshtein of the newspaper Kultura called him a virtuoso who overcame technical difficulties with enviable ease, though he also noted that Kaprin sometimes lacked sonic power in chordal textures.
Among his competition results are second prize in the Czech Republic in 1992, second prize at the Scriabin Competition in 1995, third prize at the José Iturbi Competition in Valencia in 1998, and fourth prize at the International Piano Competition in Glasgow in 2004. He has also appeared in events and festivals including a 1997 festival dedicated to the 125th anniversary of Alexander Scriabin, the 11th and 12th Tchaikovsky Competitions, the concert series Eliso Virsaladze Presents, Christmas at the Philharmonic, and Borislav Strulev and Friends.
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