Boris Berezovsky (pianist)

Boris Vadimovich Berezovsky ( _ru. Бори́с Вади́мович Березо́вский; born January 4, 1969 in Moscow) is a Russian pianist.

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"; two years later that promise was fulfilled when he won the Gold Medal at the 1990 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Boris Berezovsky works regularly as concerto soloist with orchestras including the Concertgebouw, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre de la Monnaie, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Hamburg, Hessischer Rundfunk, New Japan Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and with conductors such as Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mikhail Pletnev, Antonio Pappano.

Recordings and performances

Boris Berezovsky’s recordings of the complete Beethoven Concerti with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard have been greeted with high critical acclaim. He has also made a considerable number of records for Teldec including solo discs of works by Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Medtner, Ravel and the complete Liszt Transcendental Etudes. He is the winner of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and the BBC Music Magazine Awards in March 2006.

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. He has a noted partnership with violinist Vadim Repin and has also worked with other distinguished colleagues including Julian Rachlin, Michael Collins, Ralph Kirshbaum, Boris Pergamenschikov, Dmitri Makhtin and Alexander Kniazev.

A trio consisting of Boris Berezovsky, Dmitri Makhtin, Alexander Kniazev recorded a DVD of Tchaikovsky pieces for piano, violin and cello and Rachmaninoff's Trio élégiaque “A La Mémoire d’un grand artiste” presented on ARTE TV Channel and NHK in Japan. They received for this DVD the 4 stars Diapason.For Warner Classics International, Boris Berezovsky recorded with the same trio the Shostakovitch Trio No. 2 and Rachmaninoff Trio élégiaque No. 2 which were awarded Choc de la Musique in France, Gramophone in England Echo Classic 2005 in Germany. His solo live recording Chopin/Godowsky was released in January 2006 and got several awards such as the Diapason d'Or and RTL d'Or. His most recent album Tchaikovsky 1 and Khachaturian concerto (Ural Philharmonic Orchestra/Dmitry Liss) was released on April 2006 in the UK.

With the Mirare Label, he has recorded the Rachmaninov Préludes (May 2005) as well as the complete Rachmaninov Piano concertos with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dmitri Liss (August 2005).

Berezovsky has a daughter, Evelyne Berezovsky (born 1991), who is also a pianist. He currently lives in Brussels.

It should also be noted, that besides being a classical virtuoso, Boris is an outstanding jazz pianist, performing with his trio live in Russian clubs.He was seen and heard in a recent TV coverage giving a breathtaking stride piano version rendition of "Mack the Knife".

References

* [http://www.warnerclassicsandjazz.com/artistbiography.php?artist=5 Biography from Warner Classics]

See also

* Productions Internationales Albert Sarfati : [http://www.productions-sarfati.com/pages/biographies.php?niveau=0&cat=11&lang=2&page=45 Boris Berezovsky]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6161952087762182420&q=mazeppa&pl=true A video of Berezovsky playing Liszt's Mazeppa]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQrbH8u_JI8 Liszt's Wilde Jagd by Boris Berezovsky]