Evgeny Gedeonovich Mogilevsky, born Leizerovich, was a Soviet and Belgian pianist. He was born on 16 September 1945 in Odesa into a musical family: his mother Serafima Mogilevskaya was a music teacher, and his father Gedeon Izrailevich Leizerovich was a pianist and professor at the Odesa Conservatory.
He studied at the P. S. Stolyarsky Music School in the class of his mother, then entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he was taught by Heinrich Neuhaus and Yakov Zak. Almost immediately, he achieved international fame by winning the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels in 1964. His appearance there was regarded as a sensation, with the audience greeting him with a standing ovation.
Mogilevsky went on to build a successful concert career, much of it abroad. His tours in the United States were produced by Sol Hurok, and in 1973 he received an American award for the best interpretation of the year for Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, performed with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under Kirill Kondrashin. In the second half of the 1970s, he toured around the world with the orchestra led by Yevgeny Svetlanov.
From 1992, Mogilevsky served as a professor at the Brussels Conservatory. He died on 30 January 2023. He belonged to the broader Mogilevsky musical dynasty, but his own reputation rests above all on his distinguished international career as a pianist.
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