Glinka created piano pieces all his life. Be it variations on his own or other composers’ themes,
or tiny yet elegant miniatures in various dance genres, they all amaze us with their extraordinary
finesse and skillfullness requiring the performer’s skills to match.
The creative work of pianist Valeri Konstantinovich Kamyshov invariably won his listeners.
“I have always admired Valeri Kamyshov for his love for art and noble sense of beauty. He has
plenty of musical ideas and unique virtuosity,” said Yakov Flier whose class the pianist graduated
from the Moscow Conservatory (1966) and whose post-graduate student he was until 1968.
Valeri Kamyshov’s career was distinguished with high awards such as the second prize of All-
Union Competition in 1961, the fifth prize of the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1962, and the
second prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1968.
