Sergey Schepkin
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Sergey Schepkin is an American pianist of Russia
n birth. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts
.
, 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), 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
, Celebrity Series of Boston
,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York, Boston's Gardner Museum and Emmanuel Music
, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Phillips Collection
in Washington, DC, LACMA and Maestro Foundation 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
, The Boston Globe
, Los Angeles Times
, Asahi Shimbun
, BBC Music Magazine
, International Piano, Fanfare
, American Record Guide
, Musicweb-International, and other publications. Sergey Schepkin is a Steinway
Artist.
in 1997–98. Since 2003, he has served as an Associate Professor of Piano at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh; in 2011, he has been appointed as a Visiting Associate Professor at Boston University
. He has presented lectures-recitals and master classes at New England Conservatory, UCLA, San Francisco Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, M.I.T., Longy School of Music
, Duquesne University
, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
, the Norwegian Academy of Music
, and other schools.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n birth. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston and Newton. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732.-Etymology:...
.
Performer
Schepkin was born in St. Petersburg. He started playing piano at the age of five under the tutelage of Leah ZelikhmanLeah Zelikhman
Leah Ilyinichna Zelikhman was a Russian Jewish Soviet pianist and pedagogue.After studying with Leonid Nikolayev, she has taught at the Central Special Music School of the Leningrad Conservatory for many years. Among her pupils were Grigory Sokolov, Valery Sigalevitch, and Pavel Gililov....
, and studied piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Alexandra Zhukovsky (a pupil of Sergei Tarnowsky), Grigory Sokolov
Grigory Sokolov
Grigory Lipmanovich Sokolov is a concert pianist, often considered one of the greatest pianists alive. He was born April 18, 1950 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.-Biography:...
, 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
Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra
The Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra , founded in 1931, is one of the two symphony orchetras belonging to the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia society, the other being the more famous Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in the 19th century.The Saint Petersburg Academic...
under the baton of Vladislav Chernushenko in 1984. After his permanent move to the United States in 1990, he studied with Russell Sherman
Russell Sherman
Russell Sherman is an American classical pianist, educator and author.Russell Sherman made his debut at The Town Hall in New York at age 15; later studying piano with Edward Steuermann and composition with Erich Itor Kahn...
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
Paul Doguereau
Paul René Doguereau was a French pianist and piano teacher. He spent most of his career in Boston, United States, where he was a well-respected cultural figure.- Education :...
in 1994–98. He made his Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
recital debut in 1993 (at Weill Recital Hall), 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
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...
, Celebrity Series of Boston
Celebrity Series of Boston
The Celebrity Series of Boston is a non-profit performing arts presenter established in Boston, Massachusetts by Boston impresario Aaron Richmond in 1938 as Aaron Richmond's Celebrity Series....
,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
in New York, Boston's Gardner Museum and Emmanuel Music
Emmanuel Music
Emmanuel Music is a Boston-based collective group of singers and instrumentalists founded in 1970 by Craig Smith. It was created specifically to perform the complete cycle of over 200 sacred cantatas of J.S. Bach in the liturgical setting for which they were intended, an endeavor twice completed...
, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Phillips Collection
Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H...
in Washington, DC, LACMA and Maestro Foundation 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
Kazuyoshi Akiyama
is a Japanese conductor.-Biography:Born into a musical family, he studied piano at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, but was fascinated by the conducting activities of a fellow student, Seiji Ozawa. He decided to study conducting with Hideo Saito...
, Karsten Andersen
Karsten Andersen
Karsten Anker Andersen was a Norwegian conductor.-Life:Karsten Andersen was born in Fredrikstad. He graduated from the Oslo Music Conservatory and Accademia Musicale Chigiana . He made his debut as a violinist in 1939...
, Keith Lockhart
Keith Lockhart
For the baseball player, see Keith Lockhart Keith Lockhart , to Newton Frederick and Marilyn Jean Woodyard Lockhart, is an American orchestral conductor....
, Jonathan McPhee, Klauspeter Seibel, and Vassily Sinaisky
Vassily Sinaisky
Vassily Serafimovich Sinaisky is a Russian conductor and pianist. He studied conducting with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory and began his career as Assistant to Kirill Kondrashin at the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra...
. His concerts and recordings have been reviewed by The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
, Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, Asahi Shimbun
Asahi Shimbun
The is the second most circulated out of the five national newspapers in Japan. Its circulation, which was 7.96 million for its morning edition and 3.1 million for its evening edition as of June 2010, was second behind that of Yomiuri Shimbun...
, BBC Music Magazine
BBC music magazine
BBC Music Magazine is a magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the BBC. Reflecting the broadcast output of BBC Radio 3, the magazine is devoted primarily to classical music, though with sections on jazz and world music. Each edition comes...
, International Piano, Fanfare
Fanfare
A Fanfare is a relatively short piece of music that is typically played by trumpets and other brass instruments often accompanied by percussion...
, American Record Guide
American Record Guide
The American Record Guide is a classical music magazine. It has reviewed classical music recordings since 1935.Since 1992, with the incorporation of the Musical America editorial functions into ARG, it started covering concerts, musicians, ensembles and orchestras in the US.The magazine prides...
, Musicweb-International, and other publications. Sergey Schepkin is a Steinway
Steinway
Steinway may refer to:* Steinway & Sons, an American and German piano manufacturer* Steinway Hall, a building housing concert halls, showrooms and sales departments for Steinway & Sons pianos* Steinway D-274, the concert grand piano by Steinway & Sons...
Artist.
Educator
Schepkin is also active as an educator. He served on the faculty of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1988–90, and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of IowaUniversity of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
in 1997–98. Since 2003, he has served as an Associate Professor of Piano at Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
in Pittsburgh; in 2011, he has been appointed as a Visiting Associate Professor at Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
. He has presented lectures-recitals and master classes at New England Conservatory, UCLA, San Francisco Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, M.I.T., Longy School of Music
Longy School of Music
The Longy School of Music of Bard College is a conservatory located near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1915, it was one of the four independent degree-granting music schools in the Boston region along with the New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and Boston...
, Duquesne University
Duquesne University
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of...
, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, or NOCCA, is a professional arts training center for secondary school-age children. NOCCA is located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The school offers instruction in creative writing, dance, media arts, music, theatre arts, and visual arts, with a summer culinary...
, the Norwegian Academy of Music
Norwegian Academy of Music
The Norwegian Academy of Music is a music conservatory located in Oslo, Norway, in the neighbourhood of Majorstuen, Frogner. It is the largest music academy in Norway and offers the country's highest level of music education. As a university college, it offers both undergraduate and postgraduate...
, and other schools.
Prizes, awards, grants, and nominations
- SteinwaySteinwaySteinway may refer to:* Steinway & Sons, an American and German piano manufacturer* Steinway Hall, a building housing concert halls, showrooms and sales departments for Steinway & Sons pianos* Steinway D-274, the concert grand piano by Steinway & Sons...
Artist as of October 2009 - The 2003 Maestro Foundation Grant
- Top choice of a BachBạchBạch is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Bai in Chinese and Baek, in Korean.Bach is the anglicized variation of the surname Bạch.-Notable people with the surname Bạch:* Bạch Liêu...
Well-Tempered Clavier I recording, International Piano, Winter 2001 - Best recordings of 1999 and 2000, The Boston GlobeThe Boston GlobeThe Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
(BachBạchBạch is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Bai in Chinese and Baek, in Korean.Bach is the anglicized variation of the surname Bạch.-Notable people with the surname Bạch:* Bạch Liêu...
Well-Tempered Clavier I and II), - First Prize and Chopin Prize, the 1999 New Orleans International Piano Competition
- The Gunther SchullerGunther SchullerGunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...
Medal, New England Conservatory, June 1999 - The 1994, 1995, and 1999 St. Botolph Club Foundation Grants
- The 1994 and 1999 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Award
- Indie Award nominations, 1997 and 1998 (Bach Partitas recordings)
- The 1996 Samuel Chester Award
- The 1996 Top Five Want List, FanfareFanfareA Fanfare is a relatively short piece of music that is typically played by trumpets and other brass instruments often accompanied by percussion...
magazine (for the 1995 Bach Goldberg VariationsGoldberg VariationsThe Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, is a work for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations. First published in 1741, the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form...
recording) - The 1993 Harvard Musical AssociationHarvard Musical AssociationThe Harvard Musical Association is a private charitable organization founded by Harvard University graduates in 1837 for the purposes of advancing musical culture and literacy, both at the University and in the city of Boston. Though initially a spin-off of the Pierian Sodality, the Association...
Arthur FooteArthur FooteArthur William Foote was an American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker.The modern tendency is to view Foote’s music as “Romantic” and “European” in light of the...
Award - The 1992 Theodore Presser Foundation Award
- The 1990 Perot Foundation Grant
- Third Prize, the 1988 Queen Sonja International Music Competition, OsloOsloOslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
- Best Collaborative Pianist Diploma, the 1987 Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition, MarkneukirchenMarkneukirchenMarkneukirchen is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It lies in between the Erzgebirge and the Fichtelgebirge in the Elstergebirge, southeast of Plauen, and northeast of Asch ....
, Germany - Second Prize, the 1985 All-Russia Piano Competition, UfaUfa-Demographics:Nationally, dominated by Russian , Bashkirs and Tatars . In addition, numerous are Ukrainians , Chuvash , Mari , Belarusians , Mordovians , Armenian , Germans , Jews , Azeris .-Government and administration:Local...
, Russia - First Prize, the 1978 Concertino-Praga International Competition for Young Musicians, PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
Discography
- Brahms: Late Piano Works (King International, Inc., Japan, November 2011)
- Bach: The Goldberg Variations (2008 recording; King International, Inc., Japan, 2010)
- Bach: Capriccio in B-flat, Partita No. 6, The Italian Concerto (Northern Flowers/St. Petersburg Musical Archive, Russia, 2007)
- Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Rachmaninoff: Seven Preludes (Northern Flowers/St. Petersburg Musical Archive, Russia, 2006)
- Debussy: Preludes I, Images I, Masques, D’un cahier d’esquisses, L’isle joyeuse (Centaur RecordsCentaur RecordsCentaur Records is one of the oldest and largest independent classical labels in America. The company is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and was founded in 1976. Their recordings are available in major markets throughout the world, and their catalog includes classical, historical, pops,...
, 2003) - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier II (Ongaku, 2000)
- Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I (Ongaku, 1999)
- Schnittke: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2, with Joanna Kurkowicz, violin (Bridge Records, Inc.Bridge Records, Inc.Bridge Records, Inc. is an independent record label based in New Rochelle, New York that specializes in 20th century classical music. Its president is Becky Starobin...
, 1999) - Bach: The Six Partitas, Volume II: Partitas V and VI, Four Duets, Overture in the French Style (Ongaku, 1997)
- Bach: The Six Partitas, Volume I: Partitas I-IV (Ongaku, 1996, re-released in Japan by Dear Heart, Inc., 2008)
- Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1995 recording; released by Ongaku, 1995; re-released in Japan by Dear Heart, Inc., 2008)
- Winners of the 1988 Queen Sonja International Music Competition, Oslo (Simax, 1989)