Gilmore Artist 2010
January 6, 2010
Kirill Gerstein Named 2010 Gilmore Artist. Click here to read the press release. The New York Times article can be found here.
Profile: On the Road with Kirill Gerstein
November 15, 2009
“Pianist Kirill Gerstein is touring the world with a trio of grizzly bears. Make that three utterly ferocious, feral piano concertos,” wrote critic John Pitcher in the Omaha World-Herald about the Russian pianist’s jumbo-sized suitcase of repertoire. In the past two months, Gerstein has played the Tchaikovsky Concerto in Italy, Brahms B-flat in Cologne and San Juan, and “Rach 3” in Omaha and Detroit, along with some Bernstein in Portland and Shostakovich for his Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra debut.
And that’s not all: the multi-faceted pianist also plays jazz and is a professor of piano in Stuttgart. Read all about him in this 21C Profile interview.
Kirill Gerstein’s SPCO, Chicago, Atlanta debuts
October 8, 2009
Following a jet-setting summer at the festivals of Verbier, Aix-en-Provence, Lucerne, and Saratoga, plus concerts with Gustavo Dudamel in Caracas, 29-year-old Russian pianist Kirill Gerstein will perform a host of high-profile U.S. dates and debuts this season, including:
Oct. 9-11: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra debut; Oct. 23-25: Detroit Symphony; Jan. 6: Kennedy Center launch of a tour with cellist Steven Isserlis that includes San Francisco; Jan. 15-17: Houston Symphony; March 4-6: Chicago Symphony debut; March 11-13: Atlanta Symphony debut
Kirill Gerstein on Bach, Rach and jazz: an interview from the Minnesota Public Radio station.
Hear Kirill play Rachmaninoff’s Melodie op. 3, recently broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today