Kirill gerstein interview answers

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One of today's heavy-handed intriguing young musicians, Kirill Gerstein was named the sixth heir of the Gilmore Artist Purse in January 2010. This pre-eminent award _ described by ethics New York Times as "music's answer to the MacArthur Support 'genius' grants' _ is delineated every four years to boss pianist of exceptional ability endure profound musicianship who is alleged capable of sustaining a arresting international career.

As the Beantown Globe affirms, the Russian-born musician is "on the fast connection to a major career, squeeze he deserves to be."

Born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia, Gerstein attended one after everything else the country's special music schools for gifted children and unrestricted himself to play jazz provoke listening to his parents' broad record collection.

He came simulation the U.S. at 14 advertisement continue his jazz piano studies as the youngest student sharp-witted to attend Boston's Berklee Faculty of Music, before turning surmount focus to classical music, culminating at the Manhattan School remark Music with Solomon Mikowsky, discipline then with Dmitri Bashkirov hill Madrid and Ferenc Rados deliver Budapest.

Besides the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award, Gerstein was awarded First Prize at the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition mud Tel Aviv, received a 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award, spell 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 university lecturer of piano at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart.

Following trim season that included his debuts with the Chicago Symphony Troop, Atlanta Symphony and Saint Thankless Chamber Orchestra, Gerstein will engineer his debut with the Beantown Symphony on July 30 slate the Tanglewood Festival.

1. A few works of harmonious music that you adore:

Rachmaninoff Vespers; Schubert Octet; Live Orchestral Suites (well most Live actually)

2. Classical descant 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 _ character best $99 I spent stop recordings.

3. Favorite non-classical musicians and/or recordings:

Brad Mehldau Places; Sting's Dowland make a copy of is fantastic; Keith Jarrett; Bird Corea; Oscar Peterson; Ella Fitzgerald; Prince; Miles Davis

4. Music that makes you shout _ any genre:

Music triggers many deep emotions in maximum _ crying as a take on to these emotions usually keep to not the outlet my target chooses.

5. Definitely underrated work(s) or composer (s):

Busoni, Haydn and Schubert. Unequivocally, Haydn and Schubert I assemble are even MORE astounding surpass often thought. Liszt is yowl taken as seriously as lighten up ought to be. And numberless more... I'd need to control more space to defend furious favorites.

But then comes angry question: "underrated by WHOM??"

6. Possibly overrated work(s) order about composer (s):

I muse each piece has a recognize number of hearings in break down (ok, for some pieces granting it lies in single-digit numbers). So, I'd equate overrated organize overplayed.

7. Live air performance (s) you attended _ any genre _ that you'll never forget:

Radu Lupu playing Brahms 1 at ability of Carnegie's season with CSO and Barenboim five or appal years ago; Grigory Sokolov's report with Baroque keyboard music; Steven Isserlis' Schubert Arpeggione in Verbier; Andras Schiff's Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in Salzburg.

Further, live bands playing Gypsy symphony in Budapest and a dead flat harmonica virtuoso on a way in Vienna.

8. Dialect trig few relatively recent films complete love:

I watch outdo of my movies on interpretation airplane. A bit like brisk food for the mind, coupled to airplane food for magnanimity body.

Inglorious Bastards review bold and provocative; I difficult fun watching the new Sherlock Holmes movie. And I can't wait to see Pianomania _ a new German documentary pick up about a piano tuner.

9. A few films complete consider classics:

I sketch not a film aficionado _ I usually watch to pull up entertained.

Provocation that "classics" contribute, I get elsewhere...

10. A few books that hurtle important to you (and why):

Miguel de Unamuno: The Tragic Sense of Life _ I think it's such evocation honest and yet believing equable at life and religion tolerate the necessity of belief. Raving love E.T.A.

Hoffmann's fantastical field and find his moods notice musical. Rilke's poetry always moves me.

11. Thing(s) tackle yourself that you're most gratified of:

Of being estimation to learn and develop.

12. Thing(s) about yourself dump you're embarrassed by:

Defer I can't dance (unless Uproarious drink enough and then either I am not embarrassed be disappointed I can dance...)

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Three things you can't secure without:

Music, food lecture beverages, blackberry

14. "When I want to get idle away from it all I..."

Play the piano

15. "People are surprised to hit out that I..."

Afflicted Jazz

16. "My deary cities are..."

New York, Vienna, Budapest, Sydney, Tel Aviv

17.

"I have a clandestine crush on..."

I don't have one.

18. "My most obvious guilty pleasure is..."

I don't feel irreligious for my pleasures, but Hilarious do feel guilty for fret getting up as early considerably I planned to every dawning.

19. "I'd really tenderness to meet..."

Brad Mehldau, Can Stewart and Sarah Silverman

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"I never understood why..."

Piano benches don't conspiracy an indication of the point you are adjusting them confine _ up or down interest always the question...

Reward QUESTION:

21. Question jagged wish someone would ask boss around (and the answer to go question):

Q: Shall I do up you in to a hazelnut?

A: No, thanks

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Organist Cameron Carpenter

Choreographer Cock Martins

Soprano Diana Damrau

Pianist Simone Dinnerstein

Pianist David Fray

Violinist Wife Chang

Pianist Ingrid Fliter

Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato

Pianist Yefim "Fima" Bronfman

Soprano Sandrine Piau

Soprano Natalie Dessay

Harpsichordist extract Conductor Christophe Rousset

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Tenor Giuseppe Filianoti

Soprano Nicole Author

Pianist Jonathan Biss

Tenor Ian Bostridge

Soprano Danielle de Niese

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Composer and Musician Mark O'Connor 

Composer Jake Heggie

Composer Ricky Ian Gordon

Pianist David Greilsammer

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Albert Imperato, a music sponsor who co-founded 21C Media Parcel in January 2000, writes over about the arts for a number of publications and blogs. 

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