Stanislav Bunin is a Soviet and Japanese pianist and music teacher. He was born on 25 September 1966 in Moscow. He is the illegitimate son of Stanislav Neuhaus and the grandson of Heinrich Neuhaus.
Bunin graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1988, where he studied in the class of Sergei Dorensky. In 1983 he won the Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris, and in 1985 he became the winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, where he also received special prizes for the performance of a polonaise and for the performance of a piano concerto.
A jury member of the Chopin Competition, Lev Vlasenko, praised Bunin's highly individual interpretation of Chopin, his artistic conviction, and the flawless quality of his pianism. Vlasenko also compared his artistic profile to that of Martha Argerich because of his deeply personal relation to the music he performed.
In 1988 Bunin emigrated from the Soviet Union. He lived for a short time in Germany, and since the early 1990s he has lived and worked in Japan, where he has been active in teaching while continuing to give concerts around the world, including in Poland.
In 1997 he gave the first performance of a newly rediscovered piano prelude in C-sharp minor by Karol Szymanowski, to whom he is related on his father's side. In 2001 he gave a concert in Warsaw devoted to works by Frédéric Chopin on the occasion of the centenary of the Warsaw Philharmonic.
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