Roman Krasnovsky

Roman Krasnovsky was born in 1955 in Donetsk

Krasnovsky was born on January 10, 1955, in Donetsk. His father played in an orchestra. He began playing the piano at age 5.

He studied music in Soviet schools and conservatories and had contact with the composer Aram Khachaturian, after which he chose to focus on playing rather than composing. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Kharkiv until 1979. From 1986 to 1989 he studied organ with Galina Kozlova in Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod.

He played piano, harpsichord, celesta and later organ with the Kharkiv Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He gave organ recitals in Ukraine and the Baltic states and accompanied soloists such as violinist Viktoria Mullova.

He immigrated to Israel in 1990 and settled in Karmiel. He taught at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance from 1993 to 1997 and has taught piano at the Karmiel conservatory since 1997. He plays organ in churches in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Tabgha and has appeared with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

He performs in Europe and the United States, and in January 2008 he played the organ at Notre-Dame de Paris. After a 20-year break he returned to composing, starting with an organ work written after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. He released CDs, including one of his 3 organ symphonies with the "Jewish Symphony".