Sergey Schepkin Explained

Sergey Schepkin
Birth Date:1962 9, mf=yes
Birth Place:St. Petersburg
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Years Active:1985 – present
Genre:Classical

Sergey Schepkin (born September 24, 1962) is an American pianist of Russian birth. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Performer

Schepkin was born in St. Petersburg. He started playing piano at the age of five under the tutelage of Leah Zelikhman, and studied piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Alexandra Zhukovsky (a pupil of Sergei Tarnowsky), Grigory Sokolov, and Alexander Ikharev, graduating summa cum laude in 1985. He gave his first full-length piano recital in 1978, and made his orchestral debut with the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Vladislav Chernushenko in 1984. After his permanent move to the United States in 1990, he studied with Russell Sherman at New England Conservatory in Boston, where he earned an Artist Diploma in 1992 and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1999. He also coached with Paul Doguereau in 1994–98. He made his Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1993 (at Weill Recital Hall),[1] and has performed as soloist and chamber player throughout the world. He has appeared at the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,[2] Celebrity Series of Boston,[3] [4] the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,[5] [6] Boston's Gardner Museum and Emmanuel Music, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, LACMA[7] and Maestro Foundation http://www.maestrofoundation.org/ series in Los Angeles, Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, as well as Grand and Chamber Halls of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, among many other venues and series. He has performed under the baton of Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Karsten Andersen, Keith Lockhart, Jonathan McPhee, Klauspeter Seibel, and Vassily Sinaisky. His concerts and recordings have been reviewed by The New York Times,[5] [6] [8] [9] [10] The Boston Globe,[11] [12] [13] [14] Los Angeles Times, Asahi Shimbun, BBC Music Magazine,[15] [16] International Piano,[17] Fanfare, American Record Guide, Musicweb-International,[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] and other publications. Sergey Schepkin is a Steinway Artist.[23]

Educator

Schepkin is also active as an educator. He served on the faculty of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1988–90 (where he also was Professor Ekaterina Murina's assistant in 1987-89), and was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa in 1997–98. He is a Professor of Piano at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he has served since 2003;[24] he taught at The Boston Conservatory in 2006-07; in 2011-13, he was appointed as a Visiting Associate Professor at Boston University,[25] and taught at MIT in 2014-16. He has been on the New England Conservatory Preparatory and Continuing Education piano faculty since 1993. He has presented lecture-recitals and master classes at New England Conservatory, UCLA, San Francisco Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, MIT, Longy School of Music, Duquesne University, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the Norwegian Academy of Music, and other schools.

Prizes, awards, grants, and nominations

Discography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Classical Music in Review . The New York Times . Feb 24, 1993 . Nov 12, 2011.
  2. News: 404. www.newcriterion.com.
  3. Web site: Boston Globe Archive . Pqasb.pqarchiver.com . Oct 27, 1996 . Nov 12, 2011.
  4. Web site: Boston Globe Archive . https://archive.today/20120712082423/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/823757361.html?FMT=ABS&date=Apr+18,+2005 . dead . July 12, 2012 . Pqasb.pqarchiver.com . Apr 18, 2005 . Nov 12, 2011.
  5. Web site: Kozinn . Allan . CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEW - Brahms Meets Bach And Finds Much to Say - Review . New York Times . Oct 24, 2005 . Nov 12, 2011.
  6. Web site: MUSIC REVIEW; Drama, Not From the Performer But From What Is Being Played . The New York Times . May 25, 2004 . Nov 12, 2011.
  7. Web site: Eloquent feats from Schepkin . Los Angeles Times . Feb 15, 2003 . Nov 12, 2011.
  8. Web site: MUSIC REVIEW; A Bach Specialist Branches Out, And Willfullness (sic!) Takes a Bow . The New York Times . Jun 15, 2004 . Nov 12, 2011.
  9. Web site: MUSIC REVIEW; His Own Way, Yet Like Glenn Gould . The New York Times . Sep 30, 1997 . Nov 12, 2011.
  10. Web site: In Performance; CLASSICAL MUSIC . The New York Times . Jan 30, 1995 . Nov 12, 2011.
  11. News: Chordal majesty from Chameleon . Boston Globe . May 23, 2011 . Nov 12, 2011. Gantz . Jeffrey .
  12. Web site: Boston Globe Archive . Pqasb.pqarchiver.com . May 16, 2003 . Nov 12, 2011.
  13. Web site: Boston Globe Archive . Pqasb.pqarchiver.com . Oct 26, 1999 . Nov 12, 2011.
  14. Web site: Boston Globe Archive . Pqasb.pqarchiver.com . Oct 14, 1994 . Nov 12, 2011.
  15. Web site: The Leading Classical Music Site on the Net . classicalmusic.com . Nov 12, 2011.
  16. Web site: Running Time:  143:52 (2 discs) . Bach | Classical-Music.com | Official Website of BBC Music Magazine . Classical-Music.com . Nov 12, 2011.
  17. Web site: Boston Globe Archive . Pqasb.pqarchiver.com . Feb 16, 2001 . Nov 12, 2011.
  18. Web site: Bach: The Six Keyboard Partitas, Vols 1–2: ONGAKU RECORDS 024-108 [DC] August 2010 MusicWeb-International |publisher=Musicweb-international.com |date=Mar 21, 1995 |access-date=Nov 12, 2011].
  19. Web site: Sergey Schepkin plays Bach Volume 1 NF/PMA9949 [nb]: Classical Music Reviews – June 2010 MusicWeb-International |publisher=Musicweb-international.com |date=Jan 3, 2007 |access-date=Nov 12, 2011].
  20. Web site: Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov; Schepkin NF/PMA9939 [NB]: Classical Music Reviews – May 2010 MusicWeb-International |publisher=Musicweb-international.com |date=Jan 13, 2002 |access-date=Nov 12, 2011].
  21. Web site: BACH Well Tempered Clavier Schepkin Ongaku 024115 [DC]: Classical CD Reviews – September 2008 MusicWeb-International |publisher=Musicweb-international.com |access-date=Nov 12, 2011].
  22. Web site: BACH Goldberg Variations Ongaku 024107 [DC]: Classical CD Reviews – August 2008 MusicWeb-International |publisher=Musicweb-international.com |date=Jan 15, 1995 |access-date=Nov 12, 2011].
  23. Web site: Sergey Schepkin – Carnegie Mellon University . Cmu.edu . Nov 12, 2011.
  24. Web site: Carnegie Mellon School of Music | People . Music.cmu.edu . Nov 12, 2011.
  25. Web site: Sergey Schepkin » College of Fine Arts | Boston University . Bu.edu . Nov 12, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120729012544/http://www.bu.edu/cfa/music/faculty/schepkin/ . July 29, 2012 . mdy-all .
  26. Jacobson. Bernard. 1996. Want List for Bernard Jacobson (1996). Fanfare Magazine. 20. 2 .
  27. Web site: Pianist Follows Career from St. Petersburg to Brookline. Chemerynski. Rachel. 10 October 2010. patch.com. 23 January 2017.
  28. 1999. International piano competitions winners announced. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202011457/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-46925813.html. dead. 2 February 2017. American Music Teacher. Music Teachers National Association, Inc.. 23 January 2017. HighBeam Research.
  29. Web site: Boston Globe Archive. Dec 26, 1999. Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Nov 12, 2011.
  30. Web site: Boston Globe Archive. Dec 10, 2000. Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Nov 12, 2011.
  31. Web site: Sergey Schepkin. 2009. steinway.com. Steinway & Sons. 23 January 2017.
  32. Web site: www.wgbh.org/ . Schepkin Plays Bach's Six French Suites . live . September 5, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150905234120/http://www.wgbh.org/articles/Schepkin-Plays-Bachs-Six-French-Suites-10072 . en . 19 June 2023 . 2014 . WGBH Educational Foundation.
  33. Web site: CD of the Week: Bach: The Six Partitas. July 18, 2016.
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