Mikhail Yanovitsky, born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), began to study piano under the guidance of his mother. He graduated from the Leningrad Music School for Gifted Children, where he studied under Marina Wolf, and then from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied under Mikhail Voskresensky. Dr. Yanovitsky continued to develop his piano career in the 1980s, making his debuts with the Leningrad Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic and the Leningrad Philharmonic. He relocated to the United States and in 1991 won the Young Concert Artists Auditions, becoming their most frequently re-engaged artist. Represented by Young Concert Artists, he played for the New York Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Gerald Schwartz, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas and several other orchestras in the US, Europe, Asia, South Africa, and South America. Yanovitsky has performed in thirty-four American states, including appearances at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, New York's Carnegie Recital Hall, the Philadelphia Convention Center, San Francisco's Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Mikhail has also performed throughout Europe, as well as in Mexico, South Africa, Uruguay, Australia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, and China. Winning the Gina Bachauer Piano Graduate Scholarship in 1991 and 1992 allowed Yanovitsky to study under Seymour Lipkin at the Juilliard School in New York. In 2002, he completed his Doctorate at Temple University in Philadelphia under the tutelage of Harvey Wedeen and defended his thesis on Scriabin’s piano music. Several years later, the thesis was translated into Chinese and published by a Shanghai music publisher under the title Early Piano Miniatures by Scriabin. Mikhail Yanovitsky has won numerous awards. In 2001, Steinway & Sons named Yanovitsky a Steinway Artist. He was awarded 1st prize at the Concerto Competition (Cantu, Italy) in 1998 and subsequently appeared at the Sala Verdi in Milan. In 1996, he was a prize winner at the International Piano Competition in Sydney, Australia. He won the Pro Piano competition in New York in 1994 and the East Hampton Competition in 1992. Since the mid-1990s, Mikhail Yanovitsky has regularly performed in Russia, including at the St Petersburg Philharmonic Halls, the Rachmaninoff and Small Halls of the Moscow Conservatoire, the Scriabin Museum in Moscow, the House of Architects and the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. Dr. Yanovitsky is currently teaching at Temple University in Philadelphia.