Winners of the International Chopin Competition – Yakov Zak 🇷🇺 🏆 1st Prize and Mazurka Prize, 3rd International Chopin Piano Competition, Warsaw (1937) Here he performs Prokofiev – Toccata in D minor, Op. 11, recorded in 1963. ⚡️ Born in Odessa, he studied with Heinrich Neuhaus at the Moscow Conservatory – the same legendary teacher of Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels. Zak later became one of the USSR’s most influential pedagogues, shaping generations of pianists, including Eliso Virsaladze