Featuring the slow movements of Mozart's piano concertos K.453, K.467, K.491, K.271, and K.488About the ArtistÉmile Naoumoff is professor of music in piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he has been on faculty since 1998. He has been likened to both Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein as a pianist, displaying, as one critic remarked, the fire of the former and the poetry of the latter. He revealed himself as a musical prodigy at age five, playing the piano and adding composition to his studies a year later. At age seven, he became the last disciple of Nadia Boulanger, who referred to him as "the gift of my old age." At age 18, he was signed by music publisher Schott, Mainz. Naoumoff studied with Boulanger until her death, permitting him also to work with Clifford Curzon, Igor Markevitch, and Robert and Gaby Casadesus, among others. Yehudi Menuhin conducted the premiere of Naoumoff's first piano concerto, with him as soloist, when Noumoff was 10 years old. Naoumoff pursued studies at the Paris Conservatory with Lelia Gousseau, Pierre Sancan, and Geneviève Joy, as well as at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Pierre Dervaux (conducting). Upon Boulanger's death, he assumed her classes at the summer sessions of the Conservatoire d'Art Americain (Fontainebleau). He was later appointed to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, Paris. Naoumoff is regularly invited to perform by the world's premier orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony, and Vienna Symphony, among many others. He has worked closely with such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Slatkin, and Mstislav Rostropovich. He has also collaborated with a host of noteworthy musicians, including Jean-Pierre Rampal, Gerard Souzay, and Yo-Yo Ma. Naoumoff has been invited to perform at numerous music festivals, such as the Santander Summer Masterclasses, Verbier Academy Festival, Banff Center, and residencies at the Conservatory of Barcelona. He is an avid composer of French mélodies and is known for his transcriptions for the piano. He maintains a video journal of daily improvisations on his YouTube channel.