Vladimir Kharin

Vladimir Kharin began his musical education at the age of 6 years at the Central Music Special School of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory for specially gifted children. He gave his first piano recital at the age of eleven and made his orchestra debut at the age of 13. He then studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Jevgeni Malinin and Lev Naumov (both students of Heinrich Neuhaus), which he graduated with Distinction. Many of his concerts were broadcast live on Russian TV and Radio.

He continued his studies and took the “Konzertexamen” (also with distinction) with Michael Roll and Boris Bloch at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen in Germany, as well as with master classes with Vitaly Margulis, Oleg Maisenberg and Dmitri Bashkirov. Vladimir Kharin was invited to the concert halls of Germany, the CIS states, France, Italy, Japan, China and Indonesia as a laureate of international competitions with recitals and chamber music, as well as concerts with orchestra.

He has appeared several times with recitals at the Ruhr Piano Festival and has recorded several CDs, including together with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Jonathan Darlington.

Vladimir Kharin focuses on his teaching activities, which he began in 2005 at the Folkwang University of the Arts as an assistant to Boris Bloch. Since 2009 he became the director for piano instruction for particularly gifted children and young people at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. His students attracted attention at international competitions with several first prizes. Kharin is a highly sought-after jury member at competitions, to which he is regularly a part of, all-throughout Europe, as well as in the Far East, along with giving concert performances and master classes.