Sergey Schepkin, piano

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Schepkin studied piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Alexandra Zhukovsky and Grigory Sokolov, graduating summa cum laude in 1985. After his move to Boston in 1990, he studied with Russell Sherman at New England Conservatory, where he earned an Artist Diploma and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, and where he currently teaches on the music history faculty. In 1994–98, Schepkin coached with the late legendary French–American pianist Paul Doguereau. Schepkin has just begun his third year as Visiting Associate Professor of Piano at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. His home base remains Boston, where The Boston Phoenix recently described him as "one of Boston's great treasures, a supremely intelligent pianist who plays Bach as well as anyone." The Boston Globe defines Schepkin as “an artist of uncommon, almost singular capability and integrity… [who] synthesizes the most diverse approaches and insights.”

A naturalized American, Schepkin has performed a broad range of solo, concerto and chamber repertoire worldwide. Schepkin has a particular predilection for Romantic, French, and Russian music, and has recently been called “a Romantic firebrand” by The New York Times. His many awards include the First and Chopin prizes in the 1999 New Orleans International Piano Competition, the 1999 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Award, first prize in the International competition for Young Musicians in Prague, top prizes in the All–Russia and Crown Princess Sonja piano competitions, the 1993 Harvard Musical Association Award, and the 1992 Presser Foundation Award. In June 2003, Sergey Schepkin was awarded the MAESTRO Genius Grant from the Maestro Foundation in Los Angeles.

In 2004, Schepkin appeared twelve times in New York City, including his third Bach recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ten appearances at Bargemusic (solo and chamber), and a recital at Alice Tully Hall (his Lincoln Center debut). Highlights of his 2004–05 season included recitals at the Newport Chamber Music Festival, in western Massachusetts, central New Hampshire, Ohio, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Schepkin’s highly acclaimed recital for the Boston’s Bank of America Celebrity Series in April 2005 featured Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Debussy’s Images II, as well as The Rainbow Hexameron, six newly commissioned works by six Boston composers, based on the colors of the spectrum. Highlights of Schepkin’s 2005–6 season include a performance of the Tchaikovsky Trio for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Prelude Series, and recitals at such venues as the Harvard University’s Fogg Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.


	Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Schepkin studied piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Alexandra Zhukovsky and Grigory Sokolov, graduating summa cum laude in 1985. After his move to Boston in 1990, he studied with Russell Sherman at New England Conservatory, where he earned an Artist Diploma and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, and where he currently teaches on the music history faculty. In 1994–98, Schepkin coached with the late legendary French–American pianist Paul Doguereau. Schepkin has just begun his third year as Visiting Associate Professor of Piano at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. His home base remains Boston, where The Boston Phoenix recently described him as "one of Boston's great treasures, a supremely intelligent pianist who plays Bach as well as anyone." The Boston Globe defines Schepkin as “an artist of uncommon, almost singular capability and integrity… [who] synthesizes the most diverse approaches and insights.” A naturalized American, Schepkin has performed a broad range of solo, concerto and chamber repertoire worldwide. Schepkin has a particular predilection for Romantic, French, and Russian music, and has recently been called “a Romantic firebrand” by The New York Times. His many awards include the First and Chopin prizes in the 1999 New Orleans International Piano Competition, the 1999 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Award, first prize in the International competition for Young Musicians in Prague, top prizes in the All–Russia and Crown Princess Sonja piano competitions, the 1993 Harvard Musical Association Award, and the 1992 Presser Foundation Award. In June 2003, Sergey Schepkin was awarded the MAESTRO Genius Grant from the Maestro Foundation in Los Angeles. In 2004, Schepkin appeared twelve times in New York City, including his third Bach recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ten appearances at Bargemusic (solo and chamber), and a recital at Alice Tully Hall (his Lincoln Center debut). Highlights of his 2004–05 season included recitals at the Newport Chamber Music Festival, in western Massachusetts, central New Hampshire, Ohio, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Schepkin’s highly acclaimed recital for the Boston’s Bank of America Celebrity Series in April 2005 featured Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Debussy’s Images II, as well as The Rainbow Hexameron, six newly commissioned works by six Boston composers, based on the colors of the spectrum. Highlights of Schepkin’s 2005–6 season include a performance of the Tchaikovsky Trio for the Boston Symphony Orchestra Prelude Series, and recitals at such venues as the Harvard University’s Fogg Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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