Kirill Gliadkovsky--2015 DSMTA Convention

Kirill Gliadkovsky will lecture and give master classes October 31, 2016 at the University of Delaware for DSMTA members and guests. Registration page here.

Mr. Gliadkovsky's performances have been met with great enthusiasm by both audiences and music critics in Europe, Russia and North America. Josef Woodard, a critic at the Los Angeles Times, wrote: "...the intensity and a nicely honed musicality left the audience stunned...enthralling...all in all, a gripping and masterful performance". Dany Margolies at The Malibu Times describes his playing: "wondrous range...impassioned depth...enormous physical and emotional power...a complete artist". “Fine dramatic sense…appealing range of emotional effects and pianistic devices…wonderful” writes Fort Worth Star-Telegram; “The most impressive…memorable… deep musician… fine interpretation” - Izvestia (Moscow, Russia)

Since making his first public appearance at the age of 6, Mr. Gliadkovsky has toured extensively on three continents performing piano and organ recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in various cities in Russia, including Moscow's prestigious Bolshoi, Maliy and Rachmaninoff Halls, St.-Petersburg Philharmonic's Glinka Hall, as well as in Italy, U.K., Poland, Mongolia, Canada, Japan and throughout the United States. The venues included Purcell Hall in London, Merkin Hall in New York, Jack Singer Hall in Calgary, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, CA, Centers for the Arts in Scottsdale and Chandler AZ, National Gallery of Art and Catholic University in Washington, DC, 1st Congregational Church in Los Angeles, Philharmonic Hall in Poznan, Poland, and many others. He has performed at various music festivals, such as Aspen, Ventura, Music in the Mountains, Redlands Bowl festivals in the USA and Credomatic Festival in Costa Rica, and worked with well-known conductors Pierre Boulez, Mehli Mehta, Gordon Johnson, John Farrer, Mischa Semanitzky, Patrick Flynn, among others.

Mr. Gliadkovsky's popularity is also fast growing being a featured artist in numerous live TV and radio broadcasts and programs on such networks as NPR, CBS, PBS, CBC, WQXR, KBYU, KPAC, Russian State TV and Radio and others. He has recorded six CDs for Alexei Records and for CMK Classics labels.  

Kirill Gliadkovsky was born in Moscow and has studied music since the age of 5. Mr. Gliadkovsky attended the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow where his teachers included renowned musicians Lev Vlasenko, Mikhail Pletniev (piano) and Leonid Royzman (organ). Mr. Gliadkovsky also earned both his Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the University of Southern California with Professors Daniel Pollack (piano), Cherry Rhodes (organ), and William Schaefer (conducting). He also coached with Ann Schein, Herbert Stessin, Stephen Kovacevich and Lev Naumov. Kirill Gliadkovsky took numerous prizes at international piano competitions in Europe and the United States.

Mr. Gliadkovsky is an orchestra and choral conductor. He performs on harpsichord, as well. He is a part of 4Gs family piano team with his wife - a concert pianist Anna Gliadkovskaya - and their daughters Anastasia and Sophia. He also served as the music director and organist at Westwood Hills Christian Church in Los Angeles for 10 years.  

Mr. Gliadkovsky combines his busy concert schedule with teaching at Saddleback College as the Director of Keyboard Studies.  Prior to coming to Saddleback, he has been on the piano faculty at USC and Santa Monica College and served as the head of piano area at SUU (Southern Utah University) in Cedar City, UT.  Mr. Gliadkovsky has been in demand as a masterclass artist-teacher and piano adjudicator in piano competitions in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Columbus, Washington, D.C. and many other cities. His students have won prizes at various piano contests and have been accepted at schools such as USC, UCLA, Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University, Peabody and San Francisco Conservatories, UC Berkeley, UCSB, UNT, BYU, USU and others, often with fellowship and scholarship awards. 

Balakirev Islamey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ZEPxn3_Sg

Chopin Fantasy Op. 49 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-h3ITkTAw and   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzon-BOmk5w

Schumann Symphonic Etudes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tioUlChppQY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnEcyVbq9OY

Rachmaninoff Piano concerto No. 2

Mvt. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7O9ZdRnnME  

Mvt. 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5lawtmsPG8  and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDm6NGzi32s

Mvt. 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfYzt94y5lQ and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CclPmioL0Ss

DVDs
 
Gershwin I Got Rhythm

http://youtu.be/E-9nCvLh7gQ

Gottschalk Souvenirs d’Andalousie

http://youtu.be/tP4oeUFoBv8  

ORGAN
 
Jean Guillou Scenes d’enfant

part 1 http://youtu.be/JR3Ra_P-GG8

part 2 http://youtu.be/lheg2hM0BwQ