Kirill Gerstein
| Kirill Gerstein | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 October 1979 Voronezh, Soviet Union |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | pianist, teacher |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Website | www |
Kirill Gerstein (Russian: Кирилл Герштейн) (born 23 October 1979) is a Jewish-American and Russian pianist. He is the sixth recipient of the Gilmore Artist Award. An American citizen since 2003, Gerstein divides his time between the United States and Germany and is currently a professor of piano at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.
Gerstein was born in Voronezh in the Soviet Union and began playing the piano at age three. At the age of 11, he won his first competition—the International Bach Competition in Gorzów, Poland. Though he studied classical piano formally, he also learned to play jazz by listening to his parents’ record collection. At the age of 14, he met jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton at a festival in St. Petersburg, which led to a full-scholarship offer to study jazz piano at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Gerstein was the youngest student ever admitted to the school.
Following his time at Berklee and second summer at Tanglewood, Gerstein attended the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Solomon Mikowsky, earning both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees by the age of 20. He continued his studies in Madrid with Dmitri Bashkirov at Queen Sofía College of Music, in Budapest with Ferenc Rados, and also at the International Piano Academy Lake Como.
Kirill Gerstein made his major orchestral debut in September 2000 performing Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 with David Zinman and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and has since built a career as a major international concert artist.
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