Sergei Pavlov, concert pianist
Professional highlights
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Professional
highlights
Russian-Canadian concert pianist Sergei Pavlov started his formal piano
education at the age of 6. He graduated the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory,
one of the finest and most famous schools of music in the world, with Honours
and a Masters Degree in Piano Performance and Piano
Pedagogy. He has
performed since as a soloist and accompanist in Russia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Romania, United States and Canada, where
he lives now in Toronto. His piano performances
in North America's prestigious concert halls include the CBC's Glenn Gould
Studio in Toronto.
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).
In 1992 upon his arrival to Canada, CBC aired Jeannie Lee's
short documentary about Sergei Pavlov as a concert pianist.
Recent sample performances of Sergei Pavlov:
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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