Kirill Gerstein
Already recognized for his deeply musical interpretations and
masterful technique, Kirill Gerstein was the First Prize winner at
the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv, was
chosen to receive a 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award, and, most
recently, was selected as Carnegie Hall’s “Rising Star” for the
season 2005/06.
Kirill Gerstein was born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia. He won his first competition - the International Bach Competition at the age of 11. He studied at the Berklee college on full scholarship at the age of 14 and was the youngest college student in the school's history. Later, he attended the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Solomon Mikowsky and earned both his Bachelor and Masters of Music degrees by the age of 20. Gerstein continued his studies in Madrid with the famed piano pedagogue Dmitri Bashkirov. He is also one of only six pianists to have been selected to study in 2003 and 2004 at the prestigious Lake Como Piano Academy in Italy.
Kirill Gerstein made his major orchestral début in September 2000 with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and David Zinman and was immediately re-engaged for the following season. Additional European orchestral appearances have included performances with the National Orchestra of Spain, Israel Philharmonic, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, and a tour of Germany with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by Charles Dutoit. He has appeared in recital in Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Warsaw and throughout Spain while other festival appearances include the London BBC Proms with cellist Steven Isserlis.
Highlights of Gerstein's 2006/07 engagements include orchestral concerts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle and an extensive tour throughout Germany with the Moscow Philharmonic.
In 2006, a special live CD was released to 22,000 FonoForum subscribers in Germany, in collaboration with the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, with works of Beethoven, Schubert and Rachmaninov.
Gerstein stepped in for an indisposed Boris Berezovsky to perform Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra last March, winning critical acclaim.
Kirill Gerstein was born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia. He won his first competition - the International Bach Competition at the age of 11. He studied at the Berklee college on full scholarship at the age of 14 and was the youngest college student in the school's history. Later, he attended the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Solomon Mikowsky and earned both his Bachelor and Masters of Music degrees by the age of 20. Gerstein continued his studies in Madrid with the famed piano pedagogue Dmitri Bashkirov. He is also one of only six pianists to have been selected to study in 2003 and 2004 at the prestigious Lake Como Piano Academy in Italy.
Kirill Gerstein made his major orchestral début in September 2000 with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and David Zinman and was immediately re-engaged for the following season. Additional European orchestral appearances have included performances with the National Orchestra of Spain, Israel Philharmonic, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, and a tour of Germany with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by Charles Dutoit. He has appeared in recital in Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Warsaw and throughout Spain while other festival appearances include the London BBC Proms with cellist Steven Isserlis.
Highlights of Gerstein's 2006/07 engagements include orchestral concerts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle and an extensive tour throughout Germany with the Moscow Philharmonic.
In 2006, a special live CD was released to 22,000 FonoForum subscribers in Germany, in collaboration with the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, with works of Beethoven, Schubert and Rachmaninov.
Gerstein stepped in for an indisposed Boris Berezovsky to perform Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra last March, winning critical acclaim.
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