Bachauer beethoven biography

He began learning piano at the age of five.
Greek born pianist of Austrian and Italian parentage.
Daughter of an Austrian father and Italian mother, Gina Bachauer was born in Greece where her family had settled in the 1870s.

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Alexander Gadjiev was born in 1994 into a family of musicians in Gorizia, Italy. He began his piano studies at the age of five with his mother, Ingrid Silic. He continued his studies with his father, Siavush Gadjiev.

Alexander is the 1^st Prize winner of numerous competitions for young pianists. At the age of nine, he played Haydn’s Concerto in C major, receiving glowing reviews from the press. He gave his first recital at the age of ten.

Following his success at the piano competition of Ljubljana (Slovenia) he was invited to play at the festivals of Ljubljana and in Feldkirchen, Austria. In 2009, he performed with the “Ars Atelier” orchestra of Gorizia, and with the orchestra of the Ljubljana Opera House. In 2010 he gave solo recitals in Padova, Trieste, and in Maribor. In 2011, he played at the Dilsberg festival in Germany. In 2012, he played with the orchestra RTV Slovenija. In April 2012, he won the third prize at the first edition of the FVG International Piano competition. In June 2012, he

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Gina Bachauer

BACHAUER, GINA (1913–1976), Greek born pianist of Austrian and Italian parentage. Bachauer studied at the Athens Conservatory under Woldemar Freeman. She then went to Paris, where she took lessons with Cortot. Between 1933 and 1935 she received lessons from Rachmaninoff in France and Switzerland. Her French solo début took place in the Salle Chopin, Paris, in 1929, and she first played in England in 1932. In 1933 she won the medal of honor at an international piano competition in Vienna, and in the 1930s played concertos with the Paris Symphony Orchestra conducted by Monteux and the Athens Symphony Orchestra under Mitropoulos. During World War II she lived in Alexandria and played numerous concerts for the Allied forces in the Middle East. In 1946 she made her début at the Albert Hall, playing Grieg's Piano Concerto with the New London Orchestra under Alec Sherman, who became her second husband in 1951. After her New York début in 1950 she received unanimous acclaim from the critics and her career was assured. She toured in the U.S. and Israel. Her unusually w

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