Prof. Kirill Gerstein

  • Born in 1979 and raised in Voronezh/Russia
  • Studies in classical piano and jazz in the Soviet Union; at 14, the youngest jazz piano student ever admitted to the Berklee College of Music in Boston
  • Studies with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, with Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid, and with Ferenc Rados in Budapest
  • Prizewinner at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv in 2001 and the Gilmore Young Artist Award in 2002
  • Has commissioned compositions from Timothy Andres, Chick Corea, Alexander Goehr, Oliver Knussen, and Brad Mehldau
  • 2005/06: “Rising Star” at Carnegie Hall in New York; 2010: recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant
  • Numerous chamber music recordings and concerts with Tabea Zimmermann, Steven Isserlis, Kolja Blacher, Clemens Hagen, and Daishin Kashimoto
  • Regular guest appearances with among others the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchester, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • In recent seasons: debuts with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, as well as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and tours with, among others, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig with Herbert Blomstedt, the RAI Torino with Semyon Bychkov, the Radio Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks with Thomas Adés
  • 2015: ECHO Klassik award for a recording of piano concerti by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin under James Gaffigan
  • Autumn 2017: CD recording of Scriabin’s Piano Concerto in F Sharp Minor with the Oslo Philharmonic and its principal conductor Vasily Petrenko with LAWO Classics
  • 2018: CD release of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F Major and Rhapsody in Blue with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and David Robertson with myrios classics
  • 2007 until 2017: Professor at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
  • Since autumn of 2018: assistant professor with the new courses of study, the “Sir András Schiff Performance Programme for Young Artists” at Kronberg Academy
  • Since October of 2018: professor of piano at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin
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