Michael Chertock

Chertock, Michael麥克·徹塔克，師從法朗克·韋恩斯托克(Frank Weinstock)，畢業(yè)于辛辛那提音樂藝術(shù)學院，徹塔克十一歲時便公開演出，十七歲更演出艱難曲目拉赫曼尼諾夫第三號鋼琴協(xié)奏曲，并獲得好評。另外他也獲得許多大獎，1989年Joanna Hodges國際鋼琴大賽首獎、1991年世界美國音樂獎學金協(xié)會鋼琴大賽銀牌、 1993年圣查理國際?
鋼琴大賽大獎，甚至，他還于1986年獲得布萊恩．克萊邦(Rildia B. O’Bryon Cliburn)獎學金。?
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樂評家一般欣賞徹塔克的演奏風格為：親切、優(yōu)雅、細致、具年輕活力卻又有節(jié)制。超過一百多場和管弦樂團演出的…?
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1994年灌錄的《銀幕鋼琴獨奏金曲》(Cinematic Piano) 被美國唱片評鑒評為：美麗的演奏，豐富的琴音讓聽者如沐春風。?
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這里的音樂皆選自一些抒情感人，甚至傷懷的影片，包括《辛德勒的名單》、《鋼琴師和她的情人》、《此情可問天》、《金池塘》、《新天堂樂園》、《遠離非洲》、《愛的故事》、《北非諜影》、《似曾相識》、《黑色豪門企業(yè)》、《性、愛情、漢堡包》，尤其是《辛德勒的名單》的音樂，以鋼琴奏來絲絲入扣，動聽無比。獨奏者邁可?史爾塔克現(xiàn)任辛辛那提交響樂團首席鋼琴獨奏家，曾獲多次世界性鋼琴大賽首獎，紐約時報評其演奏充滿自信，兼具狂野、趣味、及迷人等特性。20bit高解析度的錄音，將史坦威鋼琴的明亮豐潤音質(zhì)表露無遺。
?Pianist Michael Chertock has fashioned a successful career as an orchestral soloist, collaborating with conductors such as James Conlon, Jaime Laredo, Keith Lockhart, Erich Kunzel and Andrew Litton. His many orchestral appearances include solo performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, l’Orchestre Symphonique du Montreal, the Toronto Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Naples Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony, the Chattanooga Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony and the Dayton Philharmonic. Chertock made his debut at the age of 17,?performing the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 with Andrew Litton conducting.?
In January of 2005, Chertock performed Gershwin’s Concerto in F Major with Maestro Lockhart and the National Youth Orchestra of London. Chertock has toured Asia with the Boston Pops, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. His 2003 performance on the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Petrouchka with Paavo J?rvi turned in rave reviews in Gramophone and American Record Guide. Chertock made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1999 with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, performing Duke Ellington’s New World A’Comin’. In June 2005 with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Chertock performed the world premiere of a work by Todd Machover, commissioned by the Boston Pops expressly for Mr Chertock.
Claude Gingras of La Presse, Montreal, said of pianist Michael Chertock: “Chertock revealed himself as a first-rate pianist and an interpreter of noticeable interest through the freshness that he brought to these familiar scores....(he) displayed the sensitivity of a Chopin interpreter.” The Boston Globe has called his playing “unmannered, zestful, and lovely.” The Cincinnati Enquirer has described the Virginia native as “intelligent and disciplined...noble...finely finished...expressive and well-controlled.” The Salt Lake City Deseret News said “Chertock... is a musical performer with an immense technical command of the piano.”?
In 1994, Chertock released his first CD on the Telarc label, a collection of his original arrangements of music from movies entitled Cinematic Piano. American Record Guide said “(Chertock) plays beautifully, and Telarc’s lush sonics bathe the listener in an intoxicating wash of piano sonorities.” Cincinnati Enquirer critic Janelle Gelfand called it “one of the most gorgeous discs of the summer”, citing his “elegant techniques...just the right poetic tone.” The recording has sold more than 30,000 units worldwide. Since then, he has recorded three more discs with Telarc: Palace of the Winds, Christmas at the Movies and Love At the Movies, which have been praised for their lush, original arrangements and exquisite technical facility.?
Chertock began conducting in 2001 when he stepped in for Maestro Carmon De Leone in performances of Cincinnati Ballet’s The Nutcracker. Chertock is the conductor of the Blue Ash-Montgomery Symphony, located in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio, and he frequently composes and arranges music for the orchestra’s concerts. In 2008, he conducted the Columbus Symphony (Ohio) in performances of The Nutcracker with Ballet Met Columbus.
In June of 2004 Chertock was appointed Assistant Professor of piano at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, where he received his Master’s Degree as a student of Frank Weinstock. He has garnered numerous awards at major competitions, among them the top prize in the 1989 Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition (Brahms Division,) and the grand prize in the 1993 St. Charles International Piano Competition. He also shared the silver medal in the 1991 World Piano Competition of the American Music Scholarship Association. He received the Rildia B. O’Bryon Cliburn Scholarship in 1986.
Chertock makes his home in Cincinnati with his wife Maaike, son Joshua and daughters Maria and Janneke. Most Sundays you can find him playing piano and organ for services at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church.