Mikhail Voskresensky is a Soviet, then Russian and American pianist and music educator. He is a professor at the Moscow Conservatory and president of the International Scriabin Society.
He began studying music at home at the age of four. In 1949, he entered the M. M. Ippolitov-Ivanov Music College in Moscow, where he studied piano with I. R. Klyachko. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1953 and continued there as a postgraduate student from 1958, studying with pianists and teachers Ya. I. Milstein and L. N. Oborin.
Voskresensky began teaching at the Moscow Conservatory in 1959 as Oborin’s assistant and became a professor in 1976. From 2007, he headed the department of specialized piano. His students include Professor E. I. Kuznetsova and pianists A. Gindin, S. Igolinsky, Ya. Kasman, S. Kudryakov, O. Marshev, A. Strukov, A. Tebenkhin, Yu. Favorin, S. Beloglazov, I. Krasilnikov, A. Talanov, and M. Rubackytė. In November 2022, he moved to New York with his wife, a former student, and their four-year-old son.
His recordings include Chopin’s 20 Nocturnes; Liszt’s Sonata in B minor and Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze; Scriabin’s complete sonatas; works by Rachmaninoff; Mozart’s Rondo in A minor and all of his piano concertos; Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata; and Schubert’s impromptus, Moments musicaux, and Sonata in A minor.
Voskresensky was named Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1966 and People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1989. He received the Order of the Rising Sun, Third Class, in 2015.