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While still a student, Mark Zeltser entered and won several major competitions, including the National Competition in Moscow, Grand Prix at the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris, and the Busoni Prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy. He graduated from the conservatory with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Zeltser biography Zeltser then served as a professor at the Conservatory and at the Moldavian State Conservatory, before beginning his performing career.
Since 1977, he has conducted master classes at various festivals and teaching programs throughout the United States, Eastern and Western Europe, Korea, Japan and Australia. In 1983, a concert by Zeltser in Bologna, Italy, attracted an audience of over 50,000, which has been claimed to be an all-time record for paid public attendance for classical music.
Zeltser has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, l'Orchestre National de France, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He appeared under Herbert von Karajan many times. His recording with Yo-Yo Ma and Anne-Sophie Mutter of the Beethoven Triple Concerto under Karajan has been included in "The 100 Best Classical Recordings Of The 20th Century". Zeltser has performed nearly 20 times with the Berlin Philharmonic under von Karajan. He has also recorded works by Mily Balakirev, Sergei Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. Zeltser recordings
In 1998 Zeltser was appointed Professor of Music at the Centenary College of Louisiana. Samples
He and his wife reside in Manhattan. Their daughter Elizabeth Zeltser is a violinist. New York Philharmonic Mark Zeltser's brother, Emanuel Zeltser, a lawyer, was imprisoned in Belarus and held there as a political hostage. He was released due to the joint efforts of the world leaders and Amnesty International. Save Emanuel Zeltser Legal Bisnow
Zeltser and his wife have created a commercial website through which they aim to make available every piece of classical music ever written.
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