Issay Dobrowen

Issay Alexandrovich Dobrowen (; 9 December 1953), born Itschok Zorachovitch Barabeitchik , was a Russian and Norwegian pianist, composer and conductor. He left Russia in 1922 and became a Norwegian citizen in 1929.

Biography Itschok Zorachovitch Barabeitchik was born on 27 February 1891 of Jewish parents in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and studied at the Moscow Conservatory. His teachers including Konstantin Igumnov and Sergei Taneyev, graduating with a gold medal. He taught from 1917–1921 at the Moscow Philharmonic Conservatory. which he himself played in a number of countries. As well as the concerto, whose style and orchestration recall Medtner, Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, three of his piano sonatas and a violin sonata have also appeared on disc in recent times.