"Here, surely, we have the truest successor to the great Russian pianists"
(Gramophone)

Boris Berezovsky has established a remarkable reputation, both as the most powerful of virtuoso pianists and as a musician of unique insight and sensitivity.

Born in Moscow, Boris Berezovsky studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Eliso Virsaladze and privately with Alexander Satz. Subsequent to his London début at the Wigmore Hall in 1988, The Times described him as "an artist of exceptional promise, a player of dazzling virtuosity and formidable power". Two years later he won the Gold Medal at the 1990 International Tchaïkovsky Competition in Moscow.

Boris Berezovsky is regularly invited by the most prominent orchestras including the Philharmonia of London/Leonard Slatkin, the New York Philharmonic/Kurt Mazur, the Munich Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, the Danish National Radio Symphony/Leif Segerstam, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony/Dmitri Kitaenko, the Birmingham Symphony, the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra/ Marek Janowski, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France… In March 2009, Boris Berezovsky will be at the Royal Festival Hall of London.

His partners in Chamber Music are Brigitte Engerer, Vadim Repin, Dmitri Makhtin, and Alexander Kniazev.

Boris Berezovsky is often invited to the most prestigious international recitals series : The Berlin Philharmonic Piano serie, Concertgebouw International piano serie and the Royal Festival Hall Internatinal Piano series in London and to the great stages as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Palace of fine Arts in Brussells, the Konzerthaus of Vienna, the Megaron in Athena.

With Teldec, Boris Berezovksy has recorded works of Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky, Balakirev, Medtner, Ravel and the complete Liszt Transcendental Studies. His recording of the Rachmaninov sonatas was awarded the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and his Ravel disc was recommended by Le Monde de la Musique, Diapason, The BBC Music Magazine and the Sunday Independent. Boris Berezovsky also won the BBC Music Magazine Awards in March 2006.

In August 2004, the DVD of The Tchaïkovsky Pieces for piano, violin and cello and Trio Elegiaque “A La Mémoire d’un grand artiste” recorded by the Trio B.Berezovsky, D.Makhtin, A.Kniazev received the 4 stars Diapason d'Or.

In October 2004, with Warner Classics International, Boris Berezovsky, Alexander Kniazev and Dmitri Makhtin recorded the Shostakovitch Trio n°2 and Rachmaninov Trio Elégiaque n°2, which were awarded the "Choc de la Musique" in France, the "Gramophone" in England, and the "Echo Classic" 2005 in Germany. His solo live recording Chopin/Godowsky which got released in January 2006, received the “Diapason d'Or” and the “RTL d'Or”.

With Mirare Harmonia Mundi, Boris Berezovsky recorded the Rachmaninov Preludes as well as the complete Rachmaninov Piano concertos with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dmitri Liss (concertos n° 2 and n°3 in November 2005, concertos n°1, n° 4 and the Rapshody in October 2006), and another CD for two pianos dedicated to Rachmaninov with Brigitte Engerer which received several great prizes.

June 2009