He has also received coaching from John Perry, Leon Fleisher, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Adam Wibrowski, Andrzej Jasinski, and Jerome Lowenthal. He received a MM ( New England Conservatory) and DMA ( University of Texas) in Performance, and a BM in Piano Pedagogy ( University of Texas), where his teachers included Gregory Allen, Patricia Zander, and Nancy Garrett, and two leaders in the field of piano pedagogy- Amanda Vick Lethco and Martha Hilley. William Wellborn enjoys an active career as a pianist, teacher and lecturer, and has performed and lectured widely over four continents.

Temirzhan Yerzhanov resides now in London. He has given master classes at the Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA the University of Yantai, China The Vienna School of Music and Arts, Hong Kong Izhevsk Music College, Russia and Kyrgyz National Conservatory, Bishkek.

His students won top prizes at such competitions as The Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, The Tchaikovsky in Moscow, The Vianna da Motta in Macau, The Alessandro Casagrande in Terni, The AXA in Dublin, The Lev Vlasenko in Brisbane, competitions in Porto and Epinal, the US Open Music Competition in Oakland, CA.

Upon graduating from the renowned Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory he’s been a faculty member of his almamater. He started his career by winning the First Prize and Gold Medal at the XIth International Robert Schumann Piano Competition 1993 in Zwickau, Germany, and went on appearing at Berlin Konzerthaus, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Wigmore Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Dresden Sempergalerie, Paris’ Salle Pleyel, Moscow and St Petersburg Philharmonic Halls, New York’s Merkin Hall, just to name a few.Īs a pianist and a teacher Temirzhan Yerzhanov belongs to the piano school, originated by Franz Liszt and passed down through a chain of great Russian pianists Alexander Ziloti, Konstantin Igumnov and Lev Oborin to his professor Mikhail Voskressensky. Named ‘Best Performer of 2007’ by San Francisco Classical Voice, pianist Temirzhan Yerzhanov returns to the Bay Area with recital at San Francisco Old First Church on November 8, in Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto with Diablo Symphony in Walnut Creek on Novemand in master class at Golden Key Piano School.

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