Pianists

  5   =  One of great piano virtuosos


  5   Arthur Rubinstein  (1887 - 1982)  Polish

  5   Wilhelm Kempff  (1895 - 1991)  German

  5   Vladimir Horowitz  (1903 - 1989)  Russian / American 

  5   Claudio Arrau  (1903 - 1981)  Chilean

  5   Sviatoslav Richter   (1915 - 1997)  Russian 

  5   Emil Gilels  (1916 - 1985)  Russian

  4   Leonard Bernstein  (1918 - 1990)  American

  5   Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli  (1920 - 1995)  Italian

  5   Alicia de Larrocha  (1923 - 2009)  Spanish

  5   Eugene Istomin  (1925 - 2003)  American

  3+ André Previn  (b. 1929 - 2013)  German-American

  4+  Friedrich Gulda  (1930 - 2000)  Austrian

  5    Glenn Gould  (1932 - 1982)  Canadian

  5    Van Cliburn  (1934 - 2013)  American 

  5    Vladimir Ashkenazy  (b. 1937)  Russian / Icelandic  -  Age 83

  5    Martha Argerich  (b. 1941)  Argentine

  5    Maurizio Pollini  (b. 1942)  Italian

  4+  Daniel Barenboim  (b. 1942)  Argentine Jew  (a great pianist and conductor)

   4   Maria João Pires  (b. 1944)  Portuguese

   5   Radu Lupa  (b. 1945)  Romanian

   3   Lambert Orkis  (b.  1946)  American  (primarily a performer of chamber music)

   3   Robert Levin  (b. 1947)  American  (also known as a Harvard professor of music)

   3   Ursala Oppens  (b. 1947)  American

   5   Murray Perahia  (b. 1947)  American

   5   Mitsuko Uchida  (b. 1948)  Japanese / British

   4   Garrick Ohlsson  (b. 1948)  American
 

   5   Emanuel Ax  (b. 1949)  American

   5   Grigory Sokolov  (b. 1950)  Russian

   5   Pascal Rogé  (b. 1951)  French

   5   András Schiff  (b. 1953)  Hungarian / British

   4   Zoltán Kocsis  (1953 - 2016)  Hungarian

 
   4   Andrei Gavrilov  (b. 1955)  Russian / Swedish

   5   Krystian Zimerman  (b. 1956)  Polish

   5   Mikhail Pletnev  (b.  1957)  Russian

   ?   Ivo Pogorelić  (b. 1958)  Croatian

   4   Boris Berezovsky  (b. 1969)  Russian

   4   Hélène Grimaud  (b. 1969)  French

   4   Lief Ole Andsnes  (b. 1970)  Norwegian 

   5   Evgeny Kissin  (b. 1971)  Russian

   4   Nikolai Lugansky (b. 1972)  Russian

   4   Valentina Lisitsa  (b. 1973)  Ukrainian 

   3   Alexie Voldodin  (b. 1975)  Russian

   3   Vadim Chaimovich  (b. 1978)   Lithuanian

   3   Bertrand Chamayou  (b. 1981)  French

   5   Lang Lang  (b. 1982)  Chinese

   4   Vyacheslav Gryaznov (b. 1982)  Russian

   3   Olga Jegunova  (b. 1984)  Lithuanian

   4   Boris Giltburg  (b. 1984)  Russian-Israeli

   3   Rafal Blechacz  (b. 1985)  Polish

   3   Yulianna Avdeeva  (b. 1985)  Russian

   3   Yeol Eum Son  (b.1986)  South Korean

   5    Yuja Wang  (b. 1987)  Chinese

   4    Khatia Buniatishvili  (b. 1987)  French-Georgian

   3+  Alice Sara Ott  (b. 1986)  German - Japanese

   3+  Anna Fedorova  (b. 1990)  Ukrainian

   5    Daniil Trifonov  (b. 1991)  Russian 

   4?   Seong-Jin Cho  (b. 1994)  South Korean

   4    Kate Liu  (b. 1994)  Singapore - United States

   4?  Jan Lisiecki  (b. 1995)  Canadian

   3   Tiffany Poon  (b. 1997)  Chinese