Alexander Borovsky

http://www.alexanderkborovsky.blogspot.comAlexander Borovsky, a Russian-American pianist, was born in Mitau, Russia. His first piano teacher was his mother, a pupil of V. Safonoff, the great Russian pianist. He completed his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1912 with a gold medal and the Anton Rubinstein Prize, He created great attention in the 1912 Anton Rubinstein competition which he won. He received a degree in law from St. Peterburg University alongside his music studies. Alexander Borovsky taught master-classes at the Moscow Conservatory from 1915 to 1920. The May 11, 1916 Musical Courier writes from Moscow newspaper of March 1915, "Alexander Borowski is a pupil of Anna Essipova. He is a pianist of great skill, power and alluring charm, with strong rhythm and well modulated dynamics. Mr. Borowski respects the composer's design and has the gift of bringing the spirit of it. Scriabine's Tenth Sonata, a most difficult work of account of it's complexity and theosophical spirit, was performed by Borowski at his recital with rarely deep analysis, glowing with fire progressively in a climax."