Nicholas Angelich

Nicholas Michael Angelich (December 14, 1970 – April 18, 2022) was an American pianist. He was noted for performing internationally with ensembles from Europe and North America.

Early life Angelich was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 14, 1970. His father, Borivoje Andjelitch, was a violinist originally from Montenegro, and his mother, Clara Kadarjan, was a piano teacher from the Soviet Union of Romanian and Slovak descent. He relocated to Paris when he was thirteen in order to study at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique, where his teachers included Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod, Michel Beroff,

Career Angelich studied with Leon Fleisher during his twenties. In 1989 he won second prize in the Casadesus International Piano Competition in Cleveland, Ohio, and won the first prize of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition five years later. He subsequently made his New York recital debut at the Alice Tully Hall in 1995, He made his debut with the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur in May 2003, playing the Emperor Concerto.

During his 2009–10 tour, Angelich gave recitals in Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Teatro della Pergola (Florence), Milan Conservatory, The Hague, and Theatre du Chatelet (Paris). Considered one of the great pianists of our time, he was featured on the cover of the October 2009 issue of International Piano, whose feature article is about his recording of Brahms's Op. 116 to Op. 119 on the Erato Records label. He later performed Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand at the opening of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's 2010–11 season in Dundee's Caird Hall, Edinburgh's Usher Hall and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall from September 23 to 25 under conductor Stéphane Denève.

Angelich again played under Denève with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2018. He stopped performing in 2021,

Personal life Angelich died on April 18, 2022 at the age of 51 following rejection of a lung transplant performed at the Bichat–Claude Bernard Hospital in Paris due to a chronic degenerative lung disease. He did not have any immediate survivors.