Stanislav Bunin

Pianist Stanislav Bunin won the 1985 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland. He has been active for much of his career in Japan, his wife's native country. Bunin was born September 25, 1966, in Moscow. His family was musical and otherwise artistic on both sides; his grandfather, Heinrich Neuhaus, was a famed Russian pedagogue, and his father, Stanislav Neuhaus, was a pianist. His grandmother Zinaida was the second wife of novelist Boris Pasternak, and he is also related to Polish composer Karol Szymanowski. At age six, Bunin began studies with Elena Richter ...