Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff virtually exploded onto the American musical scene in their formal U.S. debut in Chicago and secured the following response from the Chicago Tribune's music critic,

In 1991, the duo Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff was awarded the first prize in the 3rd International Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition, galvanizing audience, jurors and critics alike. Shortly

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