Sergei Edelmann (Belgium)
Distinguished Professor
Piano
Born in Lvov, Ukraine in 1960, Sergei Edelmann comes from a long and outstanding
musical heritage; his father, Alexander Edelmann, renowned pianist and pedagogue, a
pupil of both Felix Blumenfeld (professor of Vladimir Horowitz) and Heinrich
Neuhaus (professor of Sviatoslav Richter) taught Sergei since the age of 5. In his
native country, Sergei's first orchestral performance was at the age of 10 playing
Beethoven's First Piano Concerto. He subsequently performed extensively in recitals
and with orchestras throughout ex-USSR.
After immigrating to the United States in 1979, Mr. Edelmann has quickly established
himself as a significant and highly acclaimed pianist of his generation and has since
become a leading artist both in the concert hall and in the recording studio. His BMG
Classics/RCA Red Seal CDs with the Bamberg Symphony under the baton of Claus
Peter Flor and the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with Paavo Berglund include
both Mendelssohn concertos and the Strauss Burlesque, and his series of solo
recordings of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and Prokofiev, have gathered
enthusiastic critical acclaim. In the fall of 2008 Mr.Edelmann has embarked on a
major new series of recordings for the Japanese label “Triton”, first of which, with
works of J.S.Bach, was released in February 2009, the second, dedicated to
R.Schumann came out in June and in September 2009, the Chopin album, which
includes 4 ballades. In March 2010, came out the album of Liszt Sonata and
Schubert’s “Wanderer” Fantasy and in October, November consecutively – one
double CD with Chopin sonatas and another with Beethoven sonatas.
His solo recitals in the United States have included Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, New
York’s 92 nd Street “Y” and Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Pasadena’s Ambassador
Auditorium among numerous others. In Europe he has performed in Paris,
Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid, Munich, Detmold, Frankfurt, Milan, Turin, Ferrara,
Siena, Florence and in Asia he regularly appears in Tokyo, Taipei and Seoul.
Mr. Edelmann has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, American Symphony
Orchestra at the Carnegie Hall, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de
Paris, the Washington National Symphony Orchestra (at the invitation of Mstislav
Rostropovich), the Toronto Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony,
Haifa Philharmonic Orchestra, Mexico Philharmonic, Orchestra National de Buenos
Aires in Teatro Colon, Saint Louis Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Seattle
Symphony, Orchestra Verdi di Milano, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, tour of Italy with
Moscow Soloists under Yuri Bashmet, “New Russia” Symphony, the National
Symphony of Johannesburg and the Cape Town Philharmonic in South Africa and
other major orchestras across Europe, the Far East, and North and South America.
A true collaborator, Mr. Edelmann enjoys festival appearances that afford him the
opportunity to work with friends and colleagues. Among his chamber music partners:
pianist Lilya Zilberstein, violinists Philip Hirshhorn, Victor Tretyakov, Dora
Schwarzberg, Sergei Stadler, Alissa Vaitsner, violist Yuri Bashmet, clarinetists
Michel Portal, Pascal Moragues, Julian Milkis and Paul Mayer, violoncellists Mario
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Brunello, Tatiana Vasilieva, Dmitri Yablonsky and Sviatoslav Zagursky.
He has appeared in major international music festivals: La Rocque d’Antheron, Tours,
Dinard, Poitiers, Nancy, Sully, Radio France Montpelier, Maggio Musicale di
Firenze, Rovereto, Ravello, Camerino and Elba (where he premiered in Italy Gya
Kantcelli's Piano Quartet and K.Penderezky Sextet).
Recently, Mr. Edelmann performed in the Mozart celebration concert with Moscow
Soloists at the famed Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, was a soloist in
J.Brahms Piano concerto No.2 with Sinfonia Warsovia for the tour of Italy and, in
June 2010, he was invited by Martha Argerich to participate in several concerts at the
Lugano Festival.
The 2011/2012 season was highlighted by performances of the complete Beethoven
concertos cycle with the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo.
The leading conductors he has collaborated with include Yuri Bashmet, Franz Paul
Decker, Valery Gergiev, Claus Peter Flor, Lawrence Foster, Hans Graf, Gunther
Herbig, Raymond Leppard, Hirokami Junichi, Yoel Levi, Vladimir Yurovsky,
Eduardo Mata, Gerard Schwarz, Peter Csaba, Saulus Sondeckis, Lawrence Leighton
Smith, Semyon Bychkov, Catherine Comet and Maxim Shostakovich.
Sergei Edelmann is a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions,
the Gina Bachauer Memorial Scholarship at Juilliard, and a major prizewinner of
Belgium's Queen Elizabeth International Competition. Mr. Edeimann is also the
recipient of the prestigious 92nd Street YM-YWHA's Shura Cherkassky Recital
Award.
In addition to his concert activities, Mr. Edelmann devotes a considerable amount of
his time to teaching. He was a Professor of the Piano Faculty at New York University
from 1996 to 2001 and, from 2002 to 2009, a Guest Professor of Piano at the
Musashino Music Academy in Tokyo. In 2010 Mr.Edelmann was awarded the title of
Honorary Professor of Lvov Music Academy.
In 2015 Mr.Edelmann was appointed professor of piano at the Royal Conservatory of
Antwerp, Belgium.
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