Kirill Gerstein

piano

Born in Russia in 1979, Kirill Gerstein attended one of the country's special music schools. He came to the US to study jazz at Berklee College, Boston, the youngest student ever to attend the college, and later studied classical repertoire with Dmitri Bashkirov and Ferenc Rados. He won First Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in 2001, and was chosen as Carnegie Hall's 'Rising Star' for the 2005-6 season. He recently received the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award, and was awarded the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Career Grant. Since 2007 he has been a Professor of piano at the Musikhochschule, Stuttgart. Kirill’s forthcoming recital CD, to be released this year, includes Schumann's Humoreske, the Liszt sonata, and the world premiere of Oliver Knussen's Ophelia's Last Dance.
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