Victor Makarov

Australia

Professor Victor Makarov has been Head oh the Piano Department of the Australian Institute of Music since November 1998. He studied piano with Regina Horowitz (sister of Vladimir Horowitz) and Tatiana Kravchenko (student of Lev Oborin, who was a teacher of Vladimir Ashkenazy).

He has taught 17 laureates of national and international piano competitions, who have become winners of more than 30 contests, including the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (USA); Hamamatsu International Piano Competition (Japan); Sydney International Piano Competition (Australia); Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (USA); J.S. Bach International Piano Competition (Saarbrucken, Germany); and the Vladimir Horowitz International Piano Competition (Ukraine).

Students of Victor Makarov have performed in some of the best concert-halls in the world, including Santory Hall, Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall, Osaka Philharmonic Hall (Japan); Great Hall of The Moscow Conservatory (Russia); Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall (New York, USA); Sydney Town Hall and Sydney Opera House (Australia).

Professor Victor Makarov is the author of “The Piano Method for Children” and has produced a video about methods of education for young pianists. He was featured in the documentary on the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition “The Cliburn: Playing on the Edge”, made by Emmy award-winning director Peter Rosen. This documentary won the Peabody Award, the US broadcasting and cable industry’s most prestigious honour.

Recently he represented Australia on the International Symposium and PTNA World Festival in Tokyo (Japan), which was dedicated to Education of the 21^st Century.

He regularly gives master-classes around the world, including (this year) at the Chopin Academy of Music (Warsaw, Poland); Tokyo College of Music (Japan); and the Sunwha Arts School (Seoul, Korea). In August 2002 his Master Class at Oji Hall, Tokyo, concentrating on the 12 Studies by Chopin Op. 10, was recorded by Japanese television for the program “Classica Japan”.