His students: Martin Stadtfeld, Evgenia Rubinova, Dirk Mommertz, Christopher Park, Nami Ejiri, Sergey Belyavsky and others, are sought-after pianists, and are individualists despite the strong closeness to their Teacher.

There are not many piano professors who live up to their reputation as "master–makers" as consistently as the Russian Prof. Lev Natochenny, who teaches in Frankfurt and New York. He knows that every interpretation must be interesting from the first to the last note. And he can demonstrate how to compel an audience to listen! Stefan Schickhaus  DPA