Ivo Pogorelich Piano Recital in Shanghai

Date: Dec 2 - 7:30 pm

Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall

Price: 80-580 yuan

Ivo Pogorelich was born in Belgrade in 1958. He received his first piano lessons at the age of seven, and went to Moscow at the age of twelve to study at the Central Music School and then at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 1976, he began intensive studies with the renowned pianist and teacher Aliza Kezeradze, with whom he was married from 1980 until her untimely death in 1996. In 1980, he entered the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, where his elimination in the third round sparked a fierce controversy and drew the attention of the whole musical world to the pianist.