The South African Steven DeGroote took the first place award that year. When he was not chosen as a finalist, a group of patrons and Cliburn board members formed an ad-hoc committee led by Cliburn trustee Beverley Taylor Smith and American impresario Maxim Gershunoff, which raised money equal to the Van Cliburn top prize of $10,000 to further Egorov's career by funding a New York debut. In 1977 Egorov participated in the Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1975, he was awarded the 3rd Prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium.ĭefection and career in the West Įgorov defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 while on a concert tour in Rome, Italy and travelled to Amsterdam where he was to meet Jan Brouwer (1947-1988), his long term partner. In 1974, Egorov won the Bronze Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Egorov remained at the Moscow Conservatory for six years. He next studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Yakov Zak. Īt the age of 17, in 1971, Egorov took 4th Prize in Paris at the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition. One of his early teachers was Irina Dubinina, a former pupil of Yakov Zak. Born in Kazan, USSR, Youri Egorov studied music at the Kazan Conservatory from the age of 6 until age 17.
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