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Kirill Gerstein

Kirill Gerstein (Piano)

Born: 23rd October 1979, Voronezh, Soviet Union

Nationality: Russian-American

Artist's website: https://kirillgerstein.com/

The Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein was born in Voronezh in 1979 and had his first competition success at the tender age of 11, when he took first prize at the International Bach Competition in Poland. Following a chance meeting with vibraphonist Gary Burton backstage after a concert in St Petersburg when he was just 14, Gerstein (who had taught himself the rudiments of jazz by listening to old records as a child) went to study jazz at the Berklee College of Music; he subsequently spent time studying at the Manhattan School of Music, at Tanglewood, and in Budapest and Madrid.

His concerto debut took place in 2000, when he performed Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 under David Zinman in Zurich; his debut solo recording (including music by Bach, Beethoven, Scriabin and Earl Wild) was released several years later on Oehms. Gerstein’s discography includes Scriabin’s Piano Concerto and Prometheus with Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra on LAWO, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev concertos with James Gaffigan and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin on Myrios (a finalist at the 2016 BBC Music Magazine Awards), Liszt’s Transcendental Studies (‘Gerstein is no mere showman but a storyteller ‘ – Gramophone), and The Gershwin Moment, which features performances with his mentor Burton and singer-songwriter Storm Large as well as Rhapsody in Blue and the Gershwin Piano Concerto.

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Recording of the Week, Two world premiere recordings of music by Thomas Adès

6th March 2020

Thomas Adès conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in performances of two of his own works: the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, and Totentanz.

Interview, Kirill Gerstein on Busoni

20th February 2019

The pianist talks to Katherine about his recording of the Italian composer’s gargantuan Piano Concerto of 1904, released this week on Myrios with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo.

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