YURY SHADRIN
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Pianist Yury Shadrin, an internationally acclaimed soloist and recitalist, has appeared in major venues across four continents including the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. In recent seasons he has performed in concerts at Pierre Boulez Hall, China’s Central Conservatory of Music and Nanning EXPO Center, The Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Oberlin Conservatory.
As an orchestral soloist, Mr. Shadrin has performed with the Baltimore, Kalamazoo, Miami, and Salta (Argentina) Symphony Orchestras, Gilmore Festival Chamber Orchestra, Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica of Venezuela, the Caracas Municipal Symphony, Philippines Philharmonic, and the Vietnam National Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the orchestras of Peabody and Oberlin Conservatories. He has firmly established his recital credentials as well, with recent performances with Washington Performing Arts, Stars of the White Nights Festival on a program with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with other prestigious presenters in North America, South America, and Europe. His performances have been featured in radio and TV broadcasts in Vietnam, Venezuela, China, Japan, and the United States.
Highlights of the 2019-20 season include invitation from Daniel Barenboim to perform with the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Steinway Series at Silo Hill, residencies at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent and London’s Royal College of Music. Last season, Shadrin gave recitals throughout Europe, including Konzerthaus Berlin and other major halls in Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland by invitation from Sir András Schiff. In addition to his own performance career, Mr. Shadrin is a celebrated educator and serves as Artistic Director of the Leon Fleisher Academy.
Mr. Shadrin gained international recognition as a first prize winner of the Rome International Piano Competition and Grand Prize winner at the Siberian Piano Competition. In recent years, he has taken top honors at the World Piano Competition, the Maracaibo International Piano Competition, and the Yale Gordon Competition.
A Moscow Conservatory graduate, Mr. Shadrin studied with world-renowned pianists Lev Naumov and Eliso Virsaladze. Upon moving to the United States, he studied at the Oberlin Conservatory with Monique Duphil, at Yale with Peter Frankl, and at Peabody Conservatory with the great American master Leon Fleisher.