Gerard Aimontche
Thursday 23 June 2016
Royal College of Music Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall
Stravinsky Three movements from the ballet ‘Petrushka’
Biography
Gerard Aimontche is a prize-winner of international competitions such
as Grieg International Piano Competition; 8th Maria Yudina
International Competition of Young Pianists, Piano Duets, and Chambers
Ensembles; 7th Nikolai Rubinstein International Competition for Young
Musicians; Chappell Medal Competition and Schumann Prize Award (London);
American Protégé Romantic Music Competition (New York); Guzik
Foundation Award (San-Francisco).
He was also a semi-finalist of Montreux Jazz Piano Competition
(Switzerland); Hamamatsu Piano Competition and Cleveland Piano
Competition.
He has performed in Russia and abroad in such well-known venues as
the Carnegie Hall; Tchaikovsky Concert Hall; Great Hall of Moscow
Conservatory; The Kremlin Armoury; Cleveland Museum of Natural History
and many others.
He has given concerts in different Concert Halls with the State
Symphony Orchestra of Moscow under the lead of Dmitriy Orlov, and he
also played with the Kaliningrad Chamber Orchestra under the prestigious
batton of Aleksandr Andreev. In 2014 he has interpreted George
Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with Kursk Philharmonic Orchestra and
Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini with Yaroslavl State
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Gerard has been invited to perform at such international music
festivals as Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria), Montreux Jazz Festival
(Montreux, Switzerland), Visiting Larisa Gergieva (Vladikavkaz, Russia),
The River of Talents (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Night in the Museum
(Tretyakovskaya Gallery, Moscow, Russia), and many others.
Gerard is studying simultaneously at the Royal College of Music
(Masters in Performance, with Professor Norma Fisher), and the Moscow
State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (postgraduate degree in performance, with
Professor Sergey Dorensky). He holds a Music Diploma (Distinction) from
Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (2014), where he studied with
Professor Sergey Dorensky and his assistants, professors Andey Pisarev,
Nikolay Lugansky, and Pavel Nersessian. In 2009 he graduated from
Gnessin Music School (Undergraduate Diploma).
In October 2015 Gerard Aimontche made his orchestral debut performing
Rachmaninov 3rd Concerto during the 'Color of Music' Festival in
Charleston, South Carolina.
Comment by email:
Comment by email:
Dear Mr Zick, Thank you so much for posting information about my upcoming performance. However, i do not play with Philharmonic Orchestra, i only play solo piece within Philharmonic Stravinsky Festival. Best wishes, Gerard [Gerard Aimontche]
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