Boris Berezovsky (pianist)
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Boris Berezovsky during his concert in Tbilisi, Georgia, March 5, 2010
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| Birth name | Бори́с Вади́мович Березо́вский |
| Born | January 4, 1969 |
| Origin | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 1988 to present |
Boris Vadimovich Berezovsky (Russian: Бори́с Вади́мович Березо́вский; born January 4, 1969, in Moscow) is a Russian virtuoso pianist.
Berezovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Eliso Virsaladze and privately with Alexander Satz. Following his London début at the Wigmore Hall in 1988, The Times described him as "an artist of exceptional promise, a player of dazzling virtuosity and formidable power."
In May 2005 he had his first solo recital in Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and played in the same venue in January 2006 with the Orchestre National de France. In January 2007 he played seven recitals "Carte Blanche" in the Louvre. In May 2009, he premiered Karol Beffa's "Piano concerto" in Toulouse, with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Tugan Sokhiev as conductor.
Berezovsky works regularly as a soloist with orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Monnaie, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Hamburg, the Hessischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with conductors such as Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mikhail Pletnev, Dmitri Kitajenko, Antonio Pappano, Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit.
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