Evgheny Brakhman

The Russian born pianist Evgeny Brakhman played his first recital at the age of 7, at his local music school. Later, in 2001, at the age of only 20, he graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatoire, in the class of Prof. V. Starynin, and took post-graduate courses at the Moscow Conservatoire in 2003, being one of the last students of the legendary Lev Naumov.

In 1996 he won his first international piano competition – Concours Musical de France, in Paris. Between 1997-1998 he held a scholarship from the M. Rostropovich Foundation, and, along with other top scholars, he took part in the Russian Music School Festival at Carnegie Hall, in New York. Further recognition came in 1999, being awarded the 1st prize at the Dino Ciani International Piano Competition at La Scala di Milano; the jury was presided by Riccardo Muti and included Martha Argerich, Michel Beroff, Alexander Lonquich, Fou Ts’Ong, Sergei Dorensky and Fanny Waterman.
Afterwards, he played recitals at La Scala di Milano, Zurich Tonhalle, Wien Konzerthaus, and attended the most prestigious festivals in Europe.

His awards at the competitions in Cleveland, New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro and Tbilisi brought additional collaborations with top orchestras. In 2011-12 he successfully toured with Moscow Symphony in South Korea (including at the Seoul Art Center), he performed recitals and chamber music in USA and Brazil, Austria and Switzerland, while in Russia he took part in the famous festival Stars on Baikal, in Irkutsk, under the artistic direction of Denis Matsuev.

As soloist, he joined top orchestras including the Orchestra of La Scala di Milano, Bournemouth Symphony, Royal Scottish Symphony, and Vienna Chamber Orchestra. As chamber musician he collaborated with top musicians, such as Dora Schwarzberg, Anastasia Chebotareva, Denis Shapovalov, Boris Andrianov, Mark Drobinsky.

In 2002 EMI Classics released his first CD, under the title ’Martha Argerich Presents Evgeny Brakhman’. This CD consisted of sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt, and was awarded the Diapason d’Or.
In 2003 EMI released his second CD, a live recording from Lugano Festival. At present Evgeny Brakhman, prizewinner of more than 10 international piano competitions worldwide, performs regularly and extensively, having had concerts in more than 20 countries, so far. In Russia he regularly performs in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod and in many other cities.

He is a professor at the Glinka State Conservatoire in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.