Kirill Gerstein (Russian: Кирилл Герштейн), (born 1979, Voronezh, Soviet Union) is an American and Russian pianist. He was the First Prize winner at the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. He was chosen to receive a 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award, and was selected as Carnegie Hall's "Rising Star" for the 2005–2006 season. He became an American citizen in 2003 and is currently a professor of piano at the Musikhochschule in Stutt...
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Kirill Gerstein (Russian: Кирилл Герштейн), (born 1979, Voronezh, Soviet Union) is an American and Russian pianist. He was the First Prize winner at the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. He was chosen to receive a 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award, and was selected as Carnegie Hall's "Rising Star" for the 2005–2006 season. He became an American citizen in 2003 and is currently a professor of piano at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart. He is the 2010 recipient of the $300,000 Gilmore Artist Award.
Kirill Gerstein was born in 1979 in Voronezh. At the age of 11, he won his first competition - the International Bach Competition in Gorzów, Poland. He attended Berklee's summer program in 1993 and was invited to attend the college on full scholarship the following summer, becoming the youngest college student in the school's history at the age of 14.
He then attended the Manhattan School of Music with Solomon Mikowsky and earned both his Bachelor and Masters of Music degrees...
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