Emanuel Krasovsky was born in Vilnius, Lithuania and studied piano at the local conservatory. Later on he went to the Rubin Academy of Music, the Tel Aviv University with Mindru Katz and to the Juilliard School in New York with Ilona Kabos, Guido Agosti, and Ania Dorfmann. He earned B. Mus., M. Mus., and DMA degrees. He also worked with Aube Tzerko at Aspen Festival, Colorado. Among others he won the Gina Bachauer memorial award and the first prize at New York Piano Teachers' Congress international competition.
Emanuel Krasovsky appeared as soloist with The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein, Carlo Rizzi and Sidney Harth. He played recitals in the framework of Israel Festival, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at the Weill Recital Hall in New York and in many European cities. In celebration of Schubert's birth bicentennial he performed the composer's last three sonatas in Tel Aviv and in Denmark, Germany, Finland, and Hungary. Krasovsky played chamber-music recitals in Israel, Europe, USA, and the Far East with Isaac Stern, Natalia Gutman, Ileana Cotrubas and Istvan Matuz. He performs regularly with his wife, Vera Vaidman. He took part in the Kfar Blum Festival in Israel, Esbjerg Festival in Denmark, Gotland and "Sommarmusik pa Naset" chamber music festivals in Sweden, St. Cyprien Festival in France and Dino Ciani festival in Italy. He was co-founder and director of the semi-annual chamber-music festival in Zichron Yaacov and co-founder, artistic director and faculty member of the annual Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes in Israel.
With Dimitri Baschkirov and Elena Bashkirova
He still gives piano master classes at Conservatoire Supérieur National de Musique et de Dance de Paris, The Juilliard School, Mannes International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York, the Queen Sofia Superior School of Music in Madrid, London's Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Gnessin Music Academy, the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Berlin's Hochschule der Künste (HdK), the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Royal Music Academy in Copenhagen, the Royal Music College in Stockholm, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and Turku Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Hamline International Piano Institute, the Lithuanian State Academy of Music in Vilnius, the Edward Aldwell Center in Jerusalem, the Vienna, Rotterdam, Novi Sad, Tbilisi and Bologna conservatories, the Accademia Dino Ciani in Cortina d'Ampezzo, The Summer Music Seminar in Debrecen, and the CCM Prague International Piano Institute. For 16 consecutive summers he taught at International Summer Academy in Suolahti, Finland. Since summer 2011 he is artist and faculty member at Finland's Mänttä Festival. His master class at the Yamaha Center in New York was broadcast in live stream on the Internet. Emanuel Krasovsky was juror of numerous international competitions like The Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv, The Leeds International Piano Competition, The Esther Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary, José Iturbi in Valencia, Vladimir Horowitz in Kiev. A number of his students have won prizes in international contests and are pursuing illustrious performing and teaching careers the world over. There are two recipients of the Avery Fisher Career Award, two winners of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York and several prizewinners in international competitions like the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, Beethoven in Bonn, Honens in Calgary and Dublin.
With Leonard Bernstein
Krasovsky has penned articles on musical subjects. They have been featured in The New York Times, in The International Herald Tribune, The Jerusalem Post, The Musical Times of London, The Piano Quarterly, the Carnegie Hall Playbill, and other illustrous publications. Article from him appeared in "Remembering Horowitz, 125 Pianists Recall a Legend" published by Schirmer Books in New York. Leonard Bernstein said about him "He is a brilliant musician, serious, dedicated and possessed of true communicative gifts" Currently is Emanuel Krasovsky professor of piano and chamber music and chairman of the piano department at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv.
