About

Pianist Ivan Gusev from Kazakhstan/Russia has performed extensively in Russia, Europe and the US. In November 2018 he performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall to a sold out audience.

Ivan is a winner of the 3rd Gershwin International Music Competition (New York, USA, 2017), a prize-winner of the Chopin International Piano Competition (Hartford, USA, 2018), the New York Piano Festival and Competition (New York, USA, 2017), the Mauro Monopoli Prize International Piano Competition (Barletta, Italy, 2013), the Benditsky Russian Piano Competition (Russia, 2014), the Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Recognition Scholarship Award (International Keyboard Institute and Festival, New York, 2015), and the Third International Neuhaus Piano Competition (Russia, 2015).
Ivan is a graduate of the Moscow conservatory(Bachelor, Artist Diploma) and Mannes school of music(Master of music) in the New York City - all degrees are with highest honors.
Ivan is a passionate chamber musician and teacher

Music

I play solo classical piano repertoire. My wide repertoire includes music from Scarlatti and Bach to academic music of 21 century. Also chamber pieces for violin, viola, cello, flute, piano, different trios and quartets.
The most frequently performed composers are: Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Mussorgsky Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Gershwin etc.
There is a special format of my recitals - small concert-talks for children
(For example - Tchaikovsky ."Children`s album", Mussorgsky ."Pictures at an Exhibition" etc (to introduce children to the world of music)

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