Sergey Schepkin
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September 24, 1962 St. Petersburg |
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| Genres | Classical |
| Years active | 1985 – present |
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Sergey Schepkin (born September 24, 1962) is an American pianist of Russian birth. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Schepkin was born in St. Petersburg. He started playing piano at the age of five under the tutelage of Leah Zelikhman, and studied piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Alexandra Zhukovsky (a pupil of Sergei Tarnowsky), Grigory Sokolov, and Alexander Ikharev, graduating summa cum laude in 1985. He gave his first full-length piano recital in 1978, and made his orchestral debut with the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Vladislav Chernushenko in 1984. After his permanent move to the United States in 1990, he studied with Russell Sherman at New England Conservatory in Boston, where he earned an Artist Diploma in 1992 and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1999. He also coached with Paul Doguereau in 1994–98. He made his Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1993 (at Weill Recital Hall), and has performed as soloist and chamber player throughout the world. He has appeared at the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,Celebrity Series of Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Boston's Gardner Museum and Emmanuel Music, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, LACMA and Maestro Foundation [1] series in Los Angeles, Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, as well as Grand and Chamber Halls of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, among many other venues and series. He has performed under the baton of Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Karsten Andersen, Keith Lockhart, Jonathan McPhee, Klauspeter Seibel, and Vassily Sinaisky. His concerts and recordings have been reviewed by The New York Times,The Boston Globe,Los Angeles Times, Asahi Shimbun, BBC Music Magazine,International Piano,Fanfare, American Record Guide, Musicweb-International, and other publications. Sergey Schepkin is a Steinway Artist.
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