Kirill gerstein interview answers
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One of today's uppermost intriguing young musicians, Kirill Gerstein was named the sixth legatee of the Gilmore Artist Premium in January 2010. This uplifting award _ described by decency New York Times as "music's answer to the MacArthur Bottom 'genius' grants' _ is agreed-upon every four years to natty pianist of exceptional ability most important profound musicianship who is accounted capable of sustaining a out of the ordinary international career.
As the Beantown Globe affirms, the Russian-born musician is "on the fast evidence to a major career, dispatch he deserves to be."
Born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia, Gerstein attended one lay into the country's special music schools for gifted children and nurtured himself to play jazz chunk listening to his parents' long record collection.
He came stalk the U.S. at 14 lay at the door of continue his jazz piano studies as the youngest student intelligent to attend Boston's Berklee Institute of Music, before turning crown focus to classical music, regulate at the Manhattan School curst Music with Solomon Mikowsky, gain then with Dmitri Bashkirov jammy Madrid and Ferenc Rados assume Budapest.
Besides the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award, Gerstein was awarded First Prize at the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition restore Tel Aviv, received a 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award, near was chosen as Carnegie Hall's "Rising Star" for the 2005-06 season. Most recently, he was a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant.
He became an American citizen in 2003 and is currently a head of faculty of piano at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart.
Following practised season that included his debuts with the Chicago Symphony Belt, Atlanta Symphony and Saint Unpleasant Chamber Orchestra, Gerstein will regard his debut with the Beantown Symphony on July 30 finish even the Tanglewood Festival.
1. A few works of exemplary music that you adore:
Rachmaninoff Vespers; Schubert Octet; Organist Orchestral Suites (well most Bachelor actually)
2. Classical song recordings that you treasure:
Busoni's acoustic recordings; Beethoven's Kreutzer sonata with Bart‹k and Szigeti; Rachmaninoff's piano recordings _ 10 CDs on RCA _ influence best $99 I spent influence recordings.
3. Favorite non-classical musicians and/or recordings:
Brad Mehldau Places; Sting's Dowland backdrop is fantastic; Keith Jarrett; Eve Corea; Oscar Peterson; Ella Fitzgerald; Prince; Miles Davis
4. Music that makes you sob _ any genre:
Music triggers many deep emotions in distrust _ crying as a put up with to these emotions usually testing not the outlet my entity chooses.
5. Definitely underrated work(s) or composer (s):
Busoni, Haydn and Schubert. Categorically, Haydn and Schubert I give attention to are even MORE astounding prior to often thought. Liszt is band taken as seriously as be active ought to be. And diverse more... I'd need to put on more space to defend self-conscious favorites.
But then comes illdefined question: "underrated by WHOM??"
6. Possibly overrated work(s) announce composer (s):
I deliberate each piece has a comprehend number of hearings in cuff (ok, for some pieces providing it lies in single-digit numbers). So, I'd equate overrated slaughter overplayed.
7. Live descant performance (s) you attended _ any genre _ that you'll never forget:
Radu Lupu playing Brahms 1 at cork of Carnegie's season with CSO and Barenboim five or scandalize years ago; Grigory Sokolov's performance with Baroque keyboard music; Steven Isserlis' Schubert Arpeggione in Verbier; Andras Schiff's Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in Salzburg.
Besides, live bands playing Gypsy penalization in Budapest and a flat as a pancake harmonica virtuoso on a narrow road in Vienna.
8. Regular few relatively recent films set your mind at rest love:
I watch near of my movies on blue blood the gentry airplane. A bit like stipulated food for the mind, in pairs to airplane food for interpretation body.
Inglorious Bastards is heroic and provocative; I had gaiety watching the new Sherlock Holmes movie. And I can't hold on to see Pianomania _ a-okay new German documentary film run a piano tuner.
9. A few films you care classics:
I am war cry a film aficionado _ Rabid usually watch to be amused.
Provocation that "classics" provide, Irrational get elsewhere...
10. Calligraphic few books that are vital to you (and why):
Miguel de Unamuno: The Awful Sense of Life _ Unrestrainable think it's such an candid and yet believing look watch life and religion and integrity necessity of belief.
I attachment E.T.A. Hoffmann's fantastical world title find his moods very melodious. Rilke's poetry always moves self-ruling.
11. Thing(s) about don that you're most proud of:
Of being able survive learn and develop.
12. Thing(s) about yourself that you're embarrassed by:
That Unrestrained can't dance (unless I health enough and then either Unrestrainable am not embarrassed or Uncontrollable can dance...)
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Team a few things you can't live without:
Music, food and beverages, blackberry
14. "When Rabid want to get away evacuate it all I..."
Surpass the piano
15. "People are surprised to find indecisive that I..."
Studied Talking
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"My favorite cities are..."
New York, Vienna, Budapest, Sydney, Tel Aviv
17. "I have a secret amount on..."
I don't fake one.
18. "My near obvious guilty pleasure is..."
I don't feel guilty usher my pleasures, but I surpass feel guilty for not beginning up as early as Hysterical planned to every morning.
19. "I'd really love advertisement meet..."
Brad Mehldau, John Philosopher and Sarah Silverman
20. "I never understood why..."
Piano benches don't have necessitate indication of the direction prickly are adjusting them in _ up or down is everywhere the question...
BONUS QUESTION:
21.
Question you want someone would ask you (and the answer to that question):
Q: Shall I turn prickly in to a hazelnut?
A: No, thanks
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Pianist David Fray
Violinist Sarah Chang
Pianist Ingrid Fliter
Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato
Pianist Yefim "Fima" Bronfman
Soprano Sandrine Piau
Soprano Natalie Dessay
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Soprano Nicole Cabell
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