Famous People with Name Yakov

Yakov Kasman            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yakov Kasman: a Russian classical pianist Professor of Piano and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.Since his American debut as the silver medalist at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1997, Yakov Kasman has performed concerts in the United States, Russia, and Asia, and appeared as soloist with more than forty orchestras.He has performed piano concertos and recitals at numerous summer festivals including Brevard, the Peninsula, Las Vegas, Lake Placid, Sewanee and the Grand Teton winter festival. Active as a chamber musician, he has collaborated with the Manhattan, Parissi, Charleston, Shanghai, Tokyo and Talich String Quartets. He regularly gives master classes and serves as competition juror.

Yakov Sergeyevich Cheremisov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yakov Sergeyevich Cheremisov: is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Saturn-2 Moscow Oblast.

Yakov Alekseyevich Zaika            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yakov Alekseyevich Zaika: is a Russian professional football player. As of September 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Krasnodar-2000.

Yakov Anatolyevich Zalevskiy            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yakov Anatolyevich Zalevskiy: is a Russian professional footballer. As of 2009, he plays for FC Dniester Ovidiopol.

Yakov Kreizberg            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Yakov Kreizberg: is a Russian-born Austrian/American conductor.Kreizberg studied with Ilya Musin, and later at Tanglewood and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. Kreizberg was General Music Director (GMD) of the United Municipal Theaters of Krefeld and Mönchengladbach from 1988 to 1994. He was GMD of the Komische Oper Berlin from 1994 to 2001. In parallel with his Berlin post, he was principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 2000.