Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

Performers

piano

Jura Margulis

 

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Jura Margulis was raised in Germany, where he studied with his father, Dr. Vitaly Margulis, at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg. He was also a student at the Fondazione per il Pianoforte in Cadenabbia. He moved to the United States to study with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and made the US his home. Margulis is now Associate Professor of Music and Artist in Residence at the Fulbright College of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He has played in numerous festivals, including the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, the Berliner Festwochen, the Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum, the Verbier Festival, and the Argerich-Beppu Music Festival. He has won prizes in more than a dozen international competitions, including Busoni in Italy and Guardian in Ireland. His orchestral appearances include performances with the Russian National Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra the Südwestrundfunk Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Venezuela, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. The past two seasons have brought him to New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Cincinnati, Salt Lake City, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin, Bologna, Salzburg, Barcelona, Ljubljana etc. He has also concertised with Martha Argerich on two pianos in Germany, Japan, and the USA. Margulis has recorded seven CDs for Sony, Ars Musici, and Oehms Classics.

Performances

Works Performed