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"I see my life in terms of music." - Albert Einstein

Kirill Gerstein’s curiosity and versatility has led to an intense engagement with a wide range of repertoire and styles. From Bach to to Adès, his playing is distinguished by its clarity of expression, discerning intelligence and virtuosity. Gerstein’s energetic and imaginative musical personality has taken him rapidly to the top of his profession.
2016 saw Gerstein release Liszt’s "Transcendental Études" for myrios classics which was picked by The New Yorker as one of 2016’s notable recordings. His 2015 release of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto in the composer’s own final version from 1879 won an ECHO Klassik award.
Based in Berlin, Kirill Gerstein appears world-wide in performances ranging from concerts with the Chicago and Boston Orchestras, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Royal Concertgebouw, Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, London Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris, to recitals in London, Paris and New York. He is the sixth recipient of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award which allowed him to commission new works from Timothy Andres, Chick Corea, Alexander Goehr, Oliver Knussen and Brad Mehldau. Previous accolades include First Prize at the 10th Arthur Rubinstein Competition and an Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Earlier recordings for myrios classics include "Imaginary Pictures", Mussorgsky’s "Pictures at an Exhibition" coupled with Schumann’s "Carnaval", named by The New York Times as one of the best recordings of 2014; two discs with Tabea Zimmerman of sonatas for viola and piano by Brahms, Schubert, Franck, Clarke and Vieuxtemps, of which the Second Volume received the “Diapason d’Or de l’année 2013”; and a recital disc of works by Schumann, Liszt and Knussen.

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Komitas Vardapet, Claude Debussy
Music In Time Of War - Debussy / Komitas (Book+2CD)
Kirill Gerstein | Katia Skanavi | Thomas Adès | Ruzan Mantashyan
César Franck, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert
Sonatas for Viola and Piano Vol. 2
Tabea Zimmermann, Kirill Gerstein
Johannes Brahms
String Quartet Op. 67 & Piano Quintet Op. 34
Hagen Quartett, Kirill Gerstein
Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etudes S. 139
Kirill Gerstein
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev Piano Concertos
Kirill Gerstein, DSO Berlin, James Gaffigan
Ferruccio Busoni
Busoni Piano Concerto
Kirill Gerstein, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo, Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Richard Strauss
Enoch Arden
Bruno Ganz, Kirill Gerstein
Modest Mussorgsky, Robert Schumann
Imaginary Pictures
Kirill Gerstein
Thomas Adès
In Seven Days
Kirill Gerstein, Thomas Adès, Tanglewood Festival Orchestra
Robert Schumann, Oliver Knussen, Franz Liszt
Kirill Gerstein plays Liszt, Schumann and Knussen
Kirill Gerstein
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonatas for Piano Four Hands KV521 & 497
Kirill Gerstein, Ferenc Rados
Rebecca Clarke, Henri Vieuxtemps, Johannes Brahms
Sonatas for Viola and Piano Vol. 1
Tabea Zimmermann, Kirill Gerstein
Alexander Scriabin
Symphony No. 1, Op. 26 / Prometheus The Poem of Fire, Op. 60
Vasily Petrenko | Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra | Kirill Gerstein
Alexander Scriabin
Symphony No. 2 | Piano Concerto
Vasily Petrenko | Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra | Kirill Gerstein