JURY
Dmitry Rachmanov
Dr. Dmitry Rachmanov is Chair of Keyboard Studies at California State University,
Northridge. A sought-after performer, master class clinician, adjudicator and lecturer,
Dr. Rachmanov has served on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music and Chicago
College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, and has been a guest
artist/lecturer/clinician at The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Eastman
School of Music, Royal Northern College of Music (UK), Shanghai and Beijing Central
Conservatories.
Rachmanov has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, London's Barbican and
South Bank Centres, at venues across Europe and Asia, and has collaborated as a soloist
with the Ukraine National Symphony, and National Orchestra of Porto, among others.
He has recorded for Naxos, Parma, Master Musicians and Vista Vera labels.
An active member of the American Liszt Society, Dmitry Rachmanov is the president of
the society’s Southern California chapter. He was the Artistic Director of the ALS 2016
Festival “Liszt and Russia,” hosted by CSUN. His summer festivals include Piano Sicily
and InterHarmony in Italy, Corfu Piano Institute in Greece, Montecito in California,
Adamant in Vermont; In the summer of 2019 he was a resident at the Brahmshouse in
Baden-Baden, Germany. He has served as a Co-Director of the ChamberFest @ CSUN
Festival.
A proponent of Russian repertoire, Rachmanov gave the US premiere of Boris Pasternak
Piano Sonata, broadcast by the NPR, and he is a founding member and President of the
Scriabin Society of America. His April 2014 commemorative all-Scriabin program at
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall was described as “a ‘poem of ecstasy’ in every sense: giant
in conception, quantity, quality, execution, thoughtfulness, and sensitivity” by the New
York Concert Review. He is in the process of recording a video anthology of Alexander
Scriabin’s piano works.
Dr. Rachmanov is a recipient of numerous awards, among them “Jerome Richfield
Memorial Scholar” at CSUN and receiving an “Outstanding CAPMT Member State
Recognition Award” by California Association of Professional Music Teachers.
Dmitry Rachmanov is a Steinway Artist.
