Kirill Gerstein

The Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein won several major awards in the U.S., where he was partly trained. He is a truly international figure, familiar as a pianist in several countries, and he divides his time between the U.S., where he became a citizen in 2003, and Germany, where he is a noted educator. In addition to classical music, he has had a significant engagement with jazz. Of Jewish background, Gerstein was born in Voronezh, in what was then the Soviet Union, on October 23, 1979. He started playing the piano at age three and was influenced not only by classical pia...