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Leonid Dorfman was born on 8 June 1963 in Vilnius, Lithuania. He received his first piano lessons from his mother, a concert pianist. Trained at the music-art grammar school "M. K. Ciurlionis" for highly gifted children, Dorfman was awarded the first prize for young Lithuanian pianists in the national competition. He then studied at the Vilnius Academy of Music and at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he graduated with distinction.
Since 1990 he has lived in Frankfurt am Main. At the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst he attended master classes for piano, chamber music and song accompaniment. He completed his studies at master classes in Freiburg and Salzburg.
Leonid Dorfman has made a name for himself at home and abroad with numerous concerts as soloist, chamber musician and Lied accompanist. He has performed in the USA, Italy, Greece, Austria, France and in many important cities of the former USSR (such as solo recitals at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Vilnius Philharmonic Orchestra with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and the State Symphony Orchestra), as well as in Salzburg (Mozarteum), Frankfurt am Main (Alte Oper) and Elmau Palace. He took part in the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, the Kissinger Summer, the Koblenz Mendelssohn Days and the Klaus Music Summer in Upper Austria.
In 2001 Leonid Dorfman completed his training as a conductor. He took part in master classes in Vienna and Budapest. Dorfman has conducted the Hungarian and Bulgarian Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra from Minsk, among others.
His musical work is closely associated with professors Irina Edelstein, Edith Peinemann, Michael Woskressensky, Dimitri Bashkirow, Vitaly Margulis, Rainer Hoffmann, Charles Spencer and the conductor Professor Woiciech Rajski, among others.
Since 1997 Dorfman has taught piano at the University of Mainz.
Since 2002 he has been a lecturer for piano as a main subject at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)