{{Short description|American pianist (1970–2022)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox_person | name = | image = ANGELISH Nicholas-24x30-2008b.jpg | caption = Publicity photo by Studio Harcourt, 2008 | birth_name = Nicholas Michael Angelich | birth_date = December 14, 1970 | birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. | death_date = April 18, 2022 (aged 51) | death_place = Paris, France | occupation = Pianist }}
'''Nicholas Michael Angelich''' (December 14, 1970 – April 18, 2022) was an American pianist. He was noted for performing internationally with ensembles from Europe and North America.
==Early life== Angelich was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 14, 1970.<ref name="GmbH 2022">{{cite news | last=Brachmann | first=Jan | title=Radu Lupu & Nicholas Angelich: Als wäre einem plötzlich ein Einhorn begegnet | website=FAZ.NET | date=April 19, 2022 | url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buehne-und-konzert/pianisten-radu-lupu-und-nicholas-angelich-gestorben-ein-nachruf-17967898.html | language=de | access-date=April 23, 2022}}</ref> His father, Borivoje Andjelitch, was a violinist originally from Montenegro,<ref name=interview>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jejouedupiano.com/le-mag-du-piano/interview-de-Nicholas-Angelich.html|title=Nicholas Angelich Interview|website=Jejouedupiano.com|last=Gaussin|first=Frédéric|language=French|access-date=25 April 2009}}</ref><ref name="Dunevant 2012">{{cite web | last=Dunevant | first=Carol | title=Borivoje "Bora" Angelich – American Federation of Musicians Local 1 | website=American Federation of Musicians Local 1 – The finest professional musicians in the Midwest | date=May 17, 2012 | url=https://afm1.org/borivoje-bora-angelich/ | access-date=April 23, 2022}}</ref> and his mother, Clara Kadarjan, was a piano teacher from the Soviet Union of Romanian and Slovak descent.<ref name=interview/><ref name="NYT obit" /> They met while studying at the Academy of Music, Belgrade, and he anglicized their family name to Angelich after they emigrated to the United States during the 1960s.<ref name="NYT obit" /> Angelich started learning the piano with his mother at the age of five. Two years later, he gave his first concert performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 467.<ref name="NYT obit">{{cite news|title=Nicholas Angelich, Ocean-Straddling Pianist, Dies at 51|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/arts/music/nicholas-angelich-dead.html|first=Vivien|last=Schweitzer|date=April 20, 2022|access-date=April 22, 2022|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="WP obit">{{cite news|title=Nicholas Angelich, acclaimed classical pianist, dies at 51|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/04/21/nicholas-angelich-pianist-dead/|first=Emily|last=Langer|date=April 21, 2022|access-date=April 22, 2022|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> He relocated to Paris when he was thirteen in order to study at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique, where his teachers included Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod, Michel Beroff,<ref name="NYT obit"/> and Marie-Françoise Bucquet.<ref name="Gramophone obit">{{cite news|title=Pianist Nicholas Angelich has died aged 51|url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical%20music%20news/article/pianist-nicholas-angelich-has-died-aged-51|date=April 19, 2022|access-date=April 22, 2022|magazine=Gramophone}}</ref>
==Career== Angelich studied with Leon Fleisher during his twenties. In 1989 he won second prize in the Casadesus International Piano Competition in Cleveland, Ohio, and won the first prize of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition five years later.<ref name="NYT obit"/><ref name="Nicholas Angelich ">{{cite web|title= Nicholas Angelich|url= https://cso.org/about/performers/visiting-artists/nicholas-angelich/|publisher=Chicago Symphony Orchestra |accessdate=September 17, 2020}}</ref> He subsequently made his New York recital debut at the Alice Tully Hall in 1995,<ref name="NYT obit"/> playing compositions by Franz Schubert, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Maurice Ravel.<ref name="WP obit"/> His performance received a positive review from Anthony Tommasini, who observed how Angelich "boasts a prodigious technique, but wields it with a poise uncommon in someone so young".<ref name="WP obit"/> Angelich received the Young Talent Award at the 2002 Klavier-Festival Ruhr.<ref name="NYT obit"/> He performed with major French orchestras under the conductors Myung-whun Chung and David Robertson.<ref name=credits>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/nicholas-angelich-mn0002163615/biography|title=Nicholas Angelich – Credits|work=AllMusic|access-date=April 22, 2022}}</ref> He made his debut with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur in May 2003, playing the Emperor Concerto.<ref name="NYT obit"/> He then toured Japan with Masur and the Orchestre National de France the following year. His recording of Brahms trios with Renaud Capuçon and Gautier Capuçon for Erato Records received a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dedication |url=https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/dedication |date=April 28, 2016 |work=AllMusic |access-date=April 22, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik">{{cite web | title=03/2004 | website=Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik | url=https://www.schallplattenkritik.de/bestenlisten/2004/03 | language=de | access-date=April 23, 2022}}</ref>
During his 2009–10 tour, Angelich gave recitals in Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Teatro della Pergola (Florence), Milan Conservatory, The Hague, and Theatre du Chatelet (Paris). Considered one of the great pianists of our time,<ref>''88 notes pour piano solo'', Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Editions, 2015, p. 52. {{ISBN|978-2-3505-5192-0}}</ref> he was featured on the cover of the October 2009 issue of ''International Piano'', whose feature article is about his recording of Brahms's Op.116 to Op.119 on the Erato Records label.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nicholas Angelich (1970–2022)|url=https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/articles/4657--obituary-nicholas-angelich-1970-2022|first=Katherine|last=Cooper|date=April 19, 2022|access-date=April 22, 2022|publisher=Presto Music}}</ref> He later performed Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand at the opening of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's 2010–2011 season in Dundee's Caird Hall, Edinburgh's Usher Hall and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall from September 23 to 25 under conductor Stéphane Denève.<ref>{{cite book|title=Musique & Opéra autour du Monde 2010–2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6qBXZ2jyptIC&pg=PA171|publisher=Musique & Opéra|date=September 21, 2010|last=Bello-Portu|first=Marie-Laure de|page=171|isbn=978-2-911894-40-4}}</ref>
Angelich again played under Denève with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dobrin |first1=Peter |title=Nicholas Angelich joins Stéphane Denève and Philadelphia Orchestra on musical jaunts |url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/arts/nicholas-angelich-joins-stephane-deneve-and-philadelphia-orchestra-on-musical-jaunts-20180427.html |access-date=April 23, 2022 |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC |date=April 27, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> He stopped performing in 2021,<ref name="WP obit"/> but intended to close the 2021–22 season of the Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal with two planned concerts in June 2022.<ref name="NYT obit"/><ref name="MGazette20220423">{{cite news |last1=Kaptainis |first1=Arthur |title=Orchestre Métropolitain 2022-23 season lifts up underrepresented voices |url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/local-arts/orchestre-metropolitain-2022-23-season-lifts-up-underrepresented-voices |date=April 19, 2022|access-date= April 23, 2022 |work=Montreal Gazette |language=en-CA |quote=The announcement of the 2022-23 OM season arrives just after the shocking news of the death on April 18 of the American pianist Nicholas Angelich at age 51. This former OM soloist in residence was scheduled to close the current season on June 18 and 19 with concerts conducted by Nézet-Séguin.}}</ref>
==Personal life== Angelich died on April 18, 2022 at the age of 51 following rejection of a lung transplant performed at the Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris<ref>{{cite web |title=Pianist Nicholas Angelich has died, aged 51 |url=https://theviolinchannel.com/pianist-nicholas-angelich-has-died-aged-51/ |website=The Violin Channel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220427064459/https://theviolinchannel.com/pianist-nicholas-angelich-has-died-aged-51/ |archive-date=27 April 2022 |date=26 April 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> due to a chronic degenerative lung disease.<ref name="NYT obit"/><ref name="WP obit"/> He did not have any immediate survivors.<ref name="NYT obit"/><ref name="WP obit"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons}} *[https://www.verbierfestival.com/en/musician/angelich-nicholas/ Biography of Nicholas Angelich] on the website of the Verbier Festival * {{discogs artist|Nicholas Angelich}} * {{imdb name|1414895}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Angelich, Nicholas}} Category:1970 births Category:2022 deaths Category:Musicians from Cincinnati Category:21st-century American classical pianists Category:American people of Montenegrin descent Category:American people of Romanian descent Category:American people of Slovak descent Category:American male classical pianists Category:Cleveland International Piano Competition prize-winners Category:Conservatoire de Paris alumni Category:Prize-winners of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition Category:Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Category:20th-century American male musicians Category:20th-century American classical pianists Category:Classical musicians from Ohio Category:Deaths from respiratory failure Category:21st-century American male pianists