Kirill Gerstein (born 1979) is a 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.
Kirill Gerstein was born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia. At the age of 11, he won his first competition - the International Bach Competition in Gorzów, Poland. He attended Berk...
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Kirill Gerstein (born 1979) is a 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.
Kirill Gerstein was born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia. 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 by the age of 20. His studies later took him to Madrid with the piano pedagogue Dmitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martínez Mehner at the Queen Sofía College of Music. He also was one of only six pianists selected to study in 2003 and 2004...
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