GLEB IVANOV PIANIST

Russian pianist GLEB IVANOV won the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions.  He was also awarded the Peter P. Marino New York Debut Prize, the Fergus Prize, the Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian Prize, the Slomovic Orchestra Soloist Prize, The Alys Robinson Stevens Performing Arts Center Prize, and the Princeton University Concerts Prize. 

The Young Concert Artists Series will present Mr. Ivanov’s debut recitals in New York and Washington, DC during the 2005-2006 season.  Mr. Ivanov will also give a recital at the Louvre Museum in Paris, as well as performances in Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, California, and Florida. 

Since 2004, Mr. Ivanov has been mentored by Mstislav Rostropovich, having participated in a tour and several performances with the famous maestro.  He has performed Liszt’s Concerto No. 1 with the Moscow State Orchestra under the baton of Dmitri Orlov, Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 3 in the Great Hall at Moscow Conservatory with Anatoli Levin conducting, and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 13 at the Kremlin conducted by Misha Rachlefsky.  He has also appeared as soloist with the Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic, conducted by Rostropovich.  A popular favorite in Moscow, Mr. Ivanov has performed at the Pushkin, Glinka, and Scriabin Museums. 

Mr. Ivanov won First Prizes at the 1994 and 1996 International “Classical Legacy” Competitions in Moscow , the Laureate Prize at the 1997 Moscow International Festival for Young Soloists, and the prize for Best Performance of a Beethoven Sonata at the First International Vladimir Horowitz Competition in Kiev in 1995.  In 2003, he received scholarships from the Rostropovich Foundation and the Russian Performing Arts Foundation.

Mr. Ivanov comes from a family of musicians, and he began to accompany his father’s vocal recitals at the age of eight.  He also plays the clarinet and the accordion, and holds a diploma in clarinet from Lyardov High School. He studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with V.V. Sedova, N.G. Sooslova, and L.N. Naumov.