Credentials

Professional highlights | Testimonials | Sergei Pavlov's repertoire

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Professional highlights

Russian-Canadian concert pianist Sergei Pavlov graduated the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, one of the finest and arguably most famous schools of music in the world. He holds a Master's Degree in Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy and has performed as a piano soloist and accompanist in Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Romania, United States and Canada. 

Sergei Pavlov's piano performances in North America's prestigious concert halls include the CBC's Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. In 1992 upon his arrival to Canada,  he was the subject of a short documentary by CBC's news anchor Jeannie Lee. which was aired on CBC.

Sergei Pavlov lives now in Toronto, where he founded Debut Piano Studio, a piano school for students in GTA - primarily targeting Scarborough, Markham, North York, Richmond Hill. Sergei Pavlov is a member of ORMTA (Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association).

In 1995 Sergei Pavlov won the Grand Prix at the prominent Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Piano Competition. (Please see Adult First Prize Winners - Previous Competitions section. See also the Past Competitions Laureates link.). He has also been an adjudicator in festivals and competitions (including the International Piano Competition Bartok-Kabalevsky, 1996). 

Enjoy recent sample performances of Sergei Pavlov:

•   Beethoven. Piano Sonata No.8 in C Minor, Op.13 (Pathetique)
•   Chopin. Etude in G Flat Major Op. 10 No 5 ("Black Keys")
•   Liadov. Musical Snuff Box

Testimonials

 "Lightning-fast arpeggios combined with dazzling repeated octave passages kept the audience enthralled. But always there was a great sense of drama, of building to crashing climaxes in keeping with the intensity of Pavlov's expressive range, and great breadth of emotion... Fiery, exciting and thrilling to watch, Pavlov brought the audience to its feet..."
(Barbara Scott, The Examiner)

"Sergei Pavlov, another Russian wizard, and winner of the 1995 Bartok-Kabalevsky piano competition... demonstrated in works such as Liszt's La Campanella the sort of virtuosity that the best Russian-trained pianists are famed for; and in a Chopin waltz, one of several encores, he managed a lovely expressive winsomeness." 
(Jan Narveson, UW Gazette)

"A pianist of immense talent... achieved a musical zenith"
(Bruce Stapley, Weekender)

"Sergei has become known to audiences around the world for the warmth and beauty of his playing and his technical ability. While a brilliant virtuoso, his real forte is cleverly revealing a touching core of musical emotions, from melancholy to deep passion, to shimmering happiness and ecstasy." 
(Alexander Rosenblatt, pianist and composer)

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Sergei Pavlov's repertoire

Albeniz | Bach | Balakirev | Bartok | Beethoven | Boccherini | Brahms | Chopin | Debussy | Franck
Gershwin | Grieg | Haydn | Kabalevsky | Liadov | Liszt | Moussorgsky | Mozart | Prokofiev | Rosenblatt
Rachmaninoff | Ravel | Rimsky-Korsakoff | Scarlatti | Schubert | Schumann | Scriabin | Stravinsky
Shchedrin | Tchaikovsky

Albeniz, Isaac

• Suite Espanola

Bach, Johann Sebastian

• Chorale Preludes (Transcriptions by F. Busoni) 
• Adagio (after Marcello) 
• French Suite No. 1 
• Partita No. 2 
• Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue 
• Preludes and Fugues from Well-Tempered Klavier 
• Italian Concerto 
• Concerto in D Minor 

Balakirev, Mily 

• Islamey, an Oriental Fantasy 

Bartok, Bela 

• Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, op. 20 

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Beethoven, Ludwig Van 

• 6 Bagatelles
• Fur Elise
• 32 Variations in C Minor 
• Sonata, Op.2, No.1 
• Sonata, Op.2, No.2 
• Sonata, Op.2, No.3 
• Sonata, Op.10, No.2 
• Sonata, Op.13 “Pathetique” 
• Sonata, Op.27, No.2 “Moonlight” 
• Sonata, Op.31 
• Sonata, Op.49, No.1 
• Sonata, Op.49, No.2 
• Sonata, Op.53 "Waldstein” 
• Sonata, Op.57 "Appassionata" 
• Sonata, Op.90 
• Sonata, Op.101 
• Sonata, Op.109 
• Sonata, Op.110 
• Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 
• Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 
• Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op.73 "Emperor” 

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Boccherini, Luigi 

• Minuet 

Brahms, Johannes 

• 3 Hungarian Dances 
• Rhapsody, Op.79, No.1 
• Rhapsody, Op.79, No.2 
• Intermezzo, Op 117, No.1 “Sleep Softly My Child” 
• 6 Waltzes 
• Concerto No.1 in D Minor, Op. 15 

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Chopin, Frederic 

• 6 Preludes 
• 6 Mazurkas 
• 12 Waltzes 
• 12 Etudes 
• 4 Nocturnes 
• Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Op. 53 
• Fantasy-Impromptu, Op.66 
• Impromptu, Op.29 
• Ballade No.1 in G Minor, Op. 23 
• Ballade No.2 in F Major, Op. 37 
• Scherzo No.1 in B Minor, Op. 20 
• Scherzo No.2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31 
• Scherzo No.3 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 39 
• Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 
• Concerto No.1 in E Minor, Op. 11 

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Debussy, Claude 

• 2 Arabesques 
• 6 Preludes 
• Suite Bergamasque 

Franck, Cesar 

• Variations Symphoniques For Piano and Orchestra 

Gershwin, George 

• 3 Preludes 

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Grieg, Edvard 

• 6 Lyric Pieces Sonata, Op. 7 in E Minor 
• Concerto in A Minor 

Haydn, Franz Joseph 

• Sonata in D Major 
• Concerto in D Major 

Kabalevsky, Dmitri 

• Rondo in A Minor, Op. 59  

Liadov, Anatoly 

• Music Box, Op. 32 

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Liszt, Franz 

• Gnomenreigen 
• Waldesrauschen 
• Feux Follets 
• Mazeppa 
• La Campanella 
• Consolation No.3 in D-Flat Major 
• Liebenstraum No.3 
• Valse Oubliee No.1 
• Funerailles 
• Mephisto-Waltz 
• Fantasy based on Verdi's "Rigoletto" (Liszt piano transcription) 
• Hungerian Rapsody No.6 
• Rhapsody Espagnole 
• Sonata in B minor 
• Concerto No.2 in A Major 

Moussorgsky, Modest 

• Pictures at an Exhibition 

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 

• Fantasy No.3 in D minor, K.397 
• 4 Sonatas 
• Concerto No.20 in D Minor, K.466 

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Prokofiev, Sergei 

• March from "The Love for the 3 Oranges," Op.33 
• Prelude, Op.12, No.7 
• Diabolical Suggestion, Op.4, No.4 
• Toccata, Op.11 
• Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op.28 

Rosenblatt, Alexander 

• Variations on Paganini Theme 

Rachmaninoff, Sergei 

• 3 Etudes 
• 6 Preludes 
• Elegy, Op.3, No.1 
• Melody, Op.3, No.3 
• Polichinelle, Op.3, No. 4 
• Moment Musical, Op 16, No. 4 in E minor 
• Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 5 
• Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 36 
• Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op.1 
• Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op.18 

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Ravel, Maurice 

• Pavane pour une Infante Defunte 
• Jeux D'eau 

Rimsky-Korsakoff, Nicholas 

• Flight of the Bumble-Bee from Opera "The Tale of Tzar Saltan" 

Scarlatti, Domenico 

• Sonatas 

Schubert, Franz 

• 2 Impromptus 
• Moment Musical, Op.94, No. 2 
• Sonata in A Minor, Op.42 

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Schumann, Robert 

• Arabesque, Op.18 
• The Prophet Bird, Op. 82 No. 7 
• Novellets, Op.21, No.1 and No. 2 
• Aufschwung, Op.12, No.2 
• Scenes from Childhood, Op.15 
• Carnaval, Op.9 
• Faschingsschwank aus Wien , Op. 26 
• Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 

Scriabin, Alexander 

• 3 Etudes 
• Poeme Vers la Flamme, Op. 72 
• Sonata No.5, Op.53 

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Stravinsky, Igor 

• 3 Movements from Ballet "Petrouchka" 

Shchedrin, Rodion 

• Humoresque 
• Prologue and The Races from Ballet “Anna Karenina” (Michail Pletnev’s piano transcription) 

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich 

• The Seasons, Op. 37 
• Four Excerpts from Ballet “Nutcracker” (Pletnev’s piano transcription) 
• Piano Concerto No.1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 

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