Sergey Schepkin

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Sergey Schepkin
Born (1962-09-24) September 24, 1962 (age 63)
St. Petersburg
Occupations
Awards
  • Concertino-Praga International Competition for Young Musicians (First Prize)
  • All-Russia Piano Competition (Second Prize)
  • Queen Sonja International Music Competition (Third Prize)
  • New Orleans International Piano Competition (First Prize)
Musical career
GenresClassical
Years active1985 – present
Labels
Websiteschepkin.com

Sergey Schepkin (born September 24, 1962) is an American pianist of Russian birth. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Performer

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Schepkin was born in St. Petersburg. He started playing piano at the age of five under the tutelage of Leah Zelikhman, and studied piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Alexandra Zhukovsky (a pupil of Sergei Tarnowsky), Grigory Sokolov, and Alexander Ikharev, graduating summa cum laude in 1985. He gave his first full-length piano recital in 1978, and made his orchestral debut with the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Vladislav Chernushenko in 1984. After his permanent move to the United States in 1990, he studied with Russell Sherman at New England Conservatory in Boston, where he earned an Artist Diploma in 1992 and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1999. He also coached with Paul Doguereau in 1994–98. He made his Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1993 (at Weill Recital Hall),[1] and has performed as soloist and chamber player throughout the world. He has appeared at the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,[2] Celebrity Series of Boston,[3][4] the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,[5][6] Boston's Gardner Museum and Emmanuel Music, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, LACMA[7] and Maestro Foundation [1] series in Los Angeles, Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, as well as Grand and Chamber Halls of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, among many other venues and series. He has performed under the baton of Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Karsten Andersen, Keith Lockhart, Jonathan McPhee, Klauspeter Seibel, and Vassily Sinaisky. His concerts and recordings have been reviewed by The New York Times,[5][6][8][9][10] The Boston Globe,[11][12][13][14] Los Angeles Times, Asahi Shimbun, BBC Music Magazine,[15][16] International Piano,[17] Fanfare, American Record Guide, Musicweb-International,[18][19][20][21][22] and other publications. Sergey Schepkin is a Steinway Artist.[23]

Educator

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Schepkin is also active as an educator. He served on the faculty of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1988–90 (where he also was Professor Ekaterina Murina's assistant in 1987-89), and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa in 1997–98. He is a Professor of Piano at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he has served since 2003;[24] he taught at The Boston Conservatory in 2006-07; in 2011-13, he was appointed as a Visiting Associate Professor at Boston University,[25] and taught at MIT in 2014-16. He has been on the New England Conservatory Preparatory and Continuing Education piano faculty since 1993. He has presented lecture-recitals and master classes at New England Conservatory, UCLA, San Francisco Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, MIT, Longy School of Music, Duquesne University, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the Norwegian Academy of Music, and other schools.

Prizes, awards, grants, and nominations

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Discography

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  • 1989 Winners of the 1988 Queen Sonja International Music Competition, Oslo. Simax
  • 1995 Bach: The Goldberg Variations. Ongaku[34]
  • 1996 Bach: The Six Keyboard Partitas, Volume I: Partitas I-IV. Ongaku[35]
  • 1997 Bach: The Six Keyboard Partitas, Volume II: Partitas V and VI, Four Duets, Overture in the French Style. Ongaku[36]
  • 1999 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I. Ongaku[37]
  • 2000 Schnittke: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2, with Joanna Kurkowicz, violin. Bridge[38]
  • 2000 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier II. Ongaku[39]
  • 2003 Debussy: Preludes I, Images I, Masques, D’un cahier d’esquisses, L’isle joyeuse. Centaur[40]
  • 2006 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Rachmaninoff: Seven Preludes. Northern Flowers[41]
  • 2007 Bach: Schepkin plays Bach Volume 1, Capriccio in B-flat, Partita No. 6, The Italian Concerto. Northern Flowers[42]
  • 2010 Bach: Goldberg Variations. King International
  • 2011 Brahms: Late Piano Works. King International
  • 2013 Schumann: Liederkreis (Kerner Lieder; Lenau Lieder and Requiem; Eichendorff Liederkreis), with Darren Chase, baritone. Arabesque
  • 2014 Bach: The Six French Suites, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904. Steinway & Sons[43]
  • 2016 Bach: The Six Partitas. Steinway & Sons[44]

References

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  42. ^ OCLC 897386973
  43. ^ OCLC 897429069
  44. ^ OCLC 951958915
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  • Sergey Schepkin website: www.schepkin.com [2]


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