Longtime Festival collaborator Kirill Gerstein, praised by The Guardian as “a peerless performer

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Longtime Festival collaborator Kirill Gerstein, praised by The Guardian as “a peerless performer,” offers a rich Romantic recital program that includes Chopin’s Polonaise-Fantasy—a visionary work that, while writing the piece, the composer described as something he didn’t “yet know what to call”; Liszt’s flamboyant, Chopin-influenced Polonaise No. 2; and Schumann’s Carnival Scenes from Vienna, which moves masterfully and innovatively between the festive and the somber.

CHOPIN Polonaise-Fantasy in A-flat Major, Op. 61

LISZT Polonaise No. 2 in E Major, S. 223

SCHUMANN Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival Scenes from Vienna), Op. 26

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Kirill Gerstein
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Kirill Gerstein

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Pianist Kirill Gerstein’s heritage combines the traditions of Russian, American, and Central European music-making with an insatiable curiosity. These qualities and the relationships he’s developed with orchestras, conductors, instrumentalists, singers, and composers have led him to explore a huge spectrum of repertoire, both new and old. From Bach to Thomas Adès, Gerstein’s playing is distinguished by a ferocious technique and discerning intelligence matched by an energetic, imaginative musical presence that places him at the top of his profession.

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