Boris Berezovsky (pianist)


Boris Vadimovich Berezovsky is a Russian pianist.

Biography

Berezovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Eliso Virsaladze and privately with Alexander Satz. Following his London début at the Wigmore Hall in 1988, The Times described him as "an artist of exceptional promise, a player of dazzling virtuosity and formidable power." In 1990, he won First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition.
In May 2005 he had his first solo recital in Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and played in the same venue in January 2006 with the Orchestre National de France. In January 2007 he played seven recitals "Carte Blanche" in the Louvre.
In May 2009, he premiered Karol Beffa's "Piano concerto" in Toulouse, with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Tugan Sokhiev as conductor.

Career

He has initiated and organized the International Medtner Festival that took place 2006 and 2007 in Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Vladimir, as he has championed the composer since the early 1990s and has been one of the foremost recent interpreters of Medtner's music.

Recordings

Berezovsky's recordings of the complete Beethoven Piano concertos with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard have been greeted with high critical acclaim. He has made a considerable number of records for Teldec, including solo discs of works by Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Medtner, Ravel and the complete Liszt Transcendental Etudes.
With the Mirare Label, he has recorded the Rachmaninoff Préludes as well as that composer's complete Piano Concertos with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dmitri Liss. His album Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 and Khachaturian Piano Сoncerto was released on April 2006 in the UK.
The most recent recordings are Medtner Tales & Poems with Yana Ivanilova, Vassily Savenko , Medtner Two pieces for two pianos, Op. 58, with Hamish Milne in: Medtner Complete Piano Sonatas; Piano Works — Vol. 7, Rachmaninoff Suite No. 1 for two pianos, Op. 5 & Suite No. 2 for two pianos, Op. 17, with Brigitte Engerer . In 2010 Berezovsky released a record of his Liszt recital. His recording of selected works by Brahms was released in January 2011. More recently, Berezovsky released a recording of the Piano Concerto no. 2 by Tchaikovsky and other selected works.

CDs

Berezovsky won the Gold Medal at the 1990 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.