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ARTISTS
Kirill Gerstein
PianoFascination for musical discovery combined with
boundless curiosity, imagination, and virtuosity have established Kirill
Gerstein as one of today’s most prolific and compelling performers. Gerstein
is a searching artist. As a pianist, curator, educator, musical leader, and
artistic collaborator, his exploration of resonant themes across a vast
spectrum of repertoire - from Baroque suites and Classical concerti to
contemporary creations, jazz, and cabaret – has nourished relationships with
many of the world’s leading orchestras, conductors, instrumentalists, singers,
composers, festivals, recording labels, and media platforms.
Most recently, Gerstein was Artist-in-Residence
with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Spotlight Artist with the London
Symphony Orchestra, Resident Artist at the Festival Aix-en-Provence, and
curated a three-part “Busoni and his World” concert series at London’s Wigmore Hall.
He also released an acclaimed album with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill
Petrenko celebrating Rachmaninov’s 150th anniversary, presented, alongside jazz
master, Brad Mehldau, an innovative program contrasting composed and improvised
music as part of his residency at the Ruhr Piano Festival, and, at Tanglewood,
performed Berlin cabaret songs of the 1920s with iconic performance artist and
composer,
HK Gruber.
Media projects, broadcasts, and digital innovation
represent an integral part of Gerstein’s creativity. He has recorded for
Platoon/Apple Music, myrios, Deutsche Grammophon, DECCA, Berliner
Philharmoniker Recordings, with performances filmed by Unitel, Accentus Music,
and EuroArts, broadcast on ORF, BBC, ARTE, and Marquee TV, and streamed on
medici.tv and STAGE+. Gerstein’s latest media project entitled “Music in
Time of War”, pairs late piano works by Claude Debussy with pieces by
Armenian priest, musicologist, and composer Vardapet Komitas. Expanding the
traditional album concept, the recording is integrated into a hardcover book
containing a wealth of documentary images and specially commissioned original
scholarship.
Gerstein’s world première recording of Thomas Adès’
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Boston Symphony conducted by the
composer was nominated for three Grammys and received the 2020 Gramophone Award. Other
noteworthy Gerstein releases include Strauss’s Enoch Arden with the
great Swiss actor, Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire, The Downfall);
Tchaikovsky’s complete Piano Concertos (including the 1st Concerto
in the composer’s original urtext version) with Semyon Bychkov and the Czech
Philharmonic; The Gershwin Moment with the St. Louis Symphony and David
Robertson, including special appearances from American singer-songwriter Storm
Large and legendary vibraphonist, Gary Burton; and Mozart Four-Hand Piano
Sonatas with Ferenc Rados. In the current season, Gerstein will be featured in
a week of concerto and recital broadcasts on BBC3. He also performs the
Gershwin Piano Concerto on ZDF German national television’s traditional New
Year’s Eve broadcast from Dresden.
A true champion of music of our time, Gerstein has
commissioned and premièred new works by Timo Andres, Chick Corea, Alexander
Goehr, Oliver Knussen and Brad Mehldau, among others. Since giving the world
première of Thomas Adès’ Concerto Piano and Orchestra in 2019, Gerstein has performed
the work over 50 times, with 20 different orchestras on three continents.
Gerstein also recently recorded Thomas Larcher’s Piano Concerto with the
Bergen Philharmonic and Ed Gardner for ECM. In the 2025/26 season, he will give
the première of a new concerto written for him by Spanish composer, Francisco
Coll.
Gerstein is dedicated to learning. He is currently
Professor of Piano at Berlin’s Hanns Eisler Hochschule and on the faculty of
Kronberg Academy. At Kronberg Academy, his series of free online seminars
featuring conversations with the 21st Century’s leading artistic minds
has to date reached an audience of over 150,000 viewers. His guests have
included Ai Weiwei, Brad Melhdau, Thomas Adès, Iván Fischer, Alex Ross,
Matthew Aucoin, Kirill Serebrennikov, Elizabeth Wilson, Simon & Gerard
McBurney, Robert Levin, Reinhard Goebel, Simon Callow, Emma Smith, Deborah
Borda, Sir Antonio Pappano, and the late Kaija Saariaho. Gerstein also coaches
at the Verbier Festival Academy and at IMS Prussia Cove.
Highlights of the current season include the
closing concert of the Musikfest Berlin performing Messiaen’s From the
Canyons to the Stars with Sir Simon Rattle and the Karajan Academy; the
Berg Kammerkonzert with Ilya Gringolts and Heinz Holliger and Chamber Orchestra
of Europe; marking Ferruccio Busoni’s centenary with performances of his Piano
Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, the
BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon; Rachmaninov’s 3rd
Piano Concerto with Santtu-Matias Rouvali and the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra; Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon paired with Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto
with the Wiener Symphoniker and Robin Ticciati; returns to Japan and Korea
performing Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto; both Shostakovich Piano
Concertos with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Marie Jacquot; return engagements
with the orchestras of St. Louis, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Atlanta; and a
Carnegie Hall recital including the premiere of Francisco Coll’s Two Waltzes
towards Civilization (also in Severance Hall Cleveland, Montreal, and Napa),
alongside further recitals in Vienna (Musikverein); Berlin (Boulez Saal), and
London (Wigmore Hall). Gerstein also play-conducts the Chamber Orchestra of
Europe (Beethoven 4), the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris (a program of Mozart,
Salieri and Beethoven Piano Concerti), the Budapest Festival Orchestra
(Rhapsody in Blue) and the Czech Philharmonic (Beethoven 1).
Born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia, Gerstein attended
one of the country’s special music schools for gifted children and taught
himself to play jazz at home by listening to his parents’ record collection.
Following a chance encounter with Gary Burton in St. Petersburg when he was 14,
he was invited as the youngest student to study at the Berklee College of Music
in Boston. At the age of 16, Gerstein completed his undergraduate and graduate
degrees at New York’s Manhattan School of Music, followed by further studies
with Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid and Ferenc Rados in Budapest. First Prize
winner at the 10th Arthur Rubinstein Competition, in 2010, Gerstein received
the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award, as well as an Avery Fisher Career Grant.
He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of
Music in 2021.