Kirill Gerstein
Piano | Adès and Stravinsky
Born: Voronezh, Russia
Education: Manhattan School of Music with Solomon Mikowsky; Berklee College of Music, Boston; with Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid and Ferenc Rados in Budapest
Awards: First Prize Arthur Rubinstein Competition (2001), Gilmore Artist Award (2010), Opus Klassik (2025)
Breakthrough: 2000 – Brahms’ First Piano Concerto with David Zinman and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Subsequent engagements: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Berliner Philharmoniker, Münchener Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Premieres: works by Thomas Adès, Timothy Andres, Chick Corea, Alexander Goehr, Oliver Knussen, and Brad Mehldau
Debut Rotterdam Philharmonic: 2007
