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In a career spanning five decades,
Sequeira Costa has developed his own At age 22 Sequeira
Costa won the Grand Prix Ville de Paris at the Marguerite Long International
Piano Competition in Paris and at age 27 he founded the Vianna da
Motta International Music Competition is Lisbon. At age 28 he was
invited by Dmitri Shostakovich to sit on the jury of the first Tchaikovsky
Competition that took place in Moscow in 1958, to which he returned
six times. Besides regular
appearances as a judge at some of the world's most prestigious international
music competitions, including the Chopin, Leeds, Marguerite Long,
MontrČal and Rubinstein, Sequeira Costa teaches extensively in master
classes worldwide. Since 1976, he has held the position of Cordelia
Brown Murphy Distinguished Professor of Piano at the University of
Kansas, USA. Several of his students have been first prize winners
at major international piano competitions. Throughout his
distinguished career, Sequeira Costa has performed at the greatest
halls around the world, including the Salle Gaveau and Salle Pleyel
in Paris, the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow,
Tokyo's Suntori Hall, St. Petersburg's Philharmonic Hall, the Vienna
Musikverein, New York's Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C. and the major London halls. He has played
with such orchestras as the BBC Orchestras, London Symphony, Royal
Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, Prague Symphony, Bamberg Symphony,
Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan, Sydney Symphony and Czech
Philharmonic. Conductors with whom Sequeira Costa has worked include
Paul Kletzki, Joseph Keilberth, Tibor Pesek, Maxim Shostakovich, David
Zinman, Christopher Seaman, Dmitri Ktaenko, Eduardo Mata, Rudolf Barshai
and Walter Hendl, and he has partnered with fellow artists including
Itzhak Perlman, Henryk Szeryng, Elmar Oliveira, Igor Oistrach, Pavel
Kogan, Simon Goldberg, Maxim Amphiteatroff, Janos Starker, Tibor Varga,
and Edwin Fischer.
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