Kirill Gerstein Piano

Biography

Born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia, Kirill Gerstein was invited by Gary Burton to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. At the age of 16 he graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in New York and continued his studies with Dmitri Bashkirov and Ferenc Rados. First prize winner of the Arthur Rubinstein Competition, he received the Gilmore Artist Award and an Avery Fisher Career Grant. The Manhattan School of Music awarded him an honorary Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2021. Kirill Gerstein has commissioned and premiered new works by contemporary composers. Since the world premiere of Thomas Adès's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in 2019, he has performed it over fifty times with twenty different orchestras on three continents.

The recording of this work, conducted by the composer, was nominated for three Grammy Awards and won the 2020 Gramophone Award. Kirill Gerstein was recently artist-in-residence with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

He teaches piano at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin and is on the faculty of the Kronberg Academy. In the 2024-2025 season, he will perform Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles at the closing concert of the Berlin Musikfest, Berg's Chamber Concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and Ferruccio Busoni's Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre national de France, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Lisbon Gulbenkian Orchestra in celebration of the composer's 100th birthday. He also returned to Japan, Korea and the United States, giving recitals in New York, Vienna, Berlin and London. He also conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic. Next season he will give the world premiere of a concerto written for him by Francisco Coll.

Debut at the Opéra national de Paris

Immerse in the Paris Opera universe

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