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Kirill receives a stellar review from the Toronto Star

May 16th, 2013

Following Kirill’s performance with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra led by Giancarlo Guerrero, John Terauds wrote in the Toronto Star:

“To twist a cliché, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and guest pianist Kirill Gerstein taught an early-evening audience on Wednesday that you can teach an old warhorse new tricks.

“The crowd at Roy Thomson Hall rose boisterously to its feet as the Russian-born pianist finished playing Peter Ilytch Tchaikovsky’s perennially popular Piano Concerto No. 1 because he managed to augment this big, three-movement showpiece from 1875 with a breath of fresh lyricism to go with the keyboard fireworks.”

Read the full review here.

Kirill performs Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra again Thursday, May 16 and Saturday, May 18. 

Kirill illuminates the process and artistic benefits of tuning concert pianos

May 8th, 2013

This week, in anticipation of his two concerts with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (ISO), Kirill met with ISO piano technician Michael Sowka at the Steinway on which he would perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Since apprenticing at a German piano shop, Kirill has regularly collaborated with piano technicians before concerts to fine-tune the instrument’s voicing to his exact preference.

Kirill with ISO piano technician Michael Sowka

Watch here for details on what Kirill gains from being present at piano tunings.

Kirill will perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the ISO tomorrow, May 9 at 11 a.m., and on Saturday, May 11 at 8 p.m.

Click here for tickets and further information for the May 9 concert.

Click here for tickets and further information for the May 11 concert.

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Upcoming: Kirill performs in recital at La Jolla Music Society

April 23rd, 2013

On Friday, April 26, Kirill brings his boundary-breaking, “high-octane” recital program featuring works from jazz to classical to the MCASD Sherwood Auditorium presented by La Jolla Music Society.  The program includes Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme commissioned by Kirill, as well as works by Brahms, Haydn and Mussorgsky.

Click here for tickets and further information. 

Kirill Gerstein live from Queen Elizabeth Hall in London

April 5th, 2013

The recital, featuring works by Haydn, Brahms, Schumann, and the UK premiere of Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme, can be heard online at BBC Radio 3 through April 11, 2013.

Click here to listen to the recital

Reviews of Kirill’s Queen Elizabeth Hall recital appeared in The Independent and online at Classical Source.

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