Serge EDELMANN

• 6th prize, Piano 1983
  

Born in Russia in 1960, Sergei Edelmann arrived in the United States in 1979 and, within his first year, quickly established himself as a significant and highly-acclaimed pianist of his generation.
Sergei Edelmann has become a leading artist both in the concert hall and in the recording studio. His BMG Classics/RCA Red Seal CDs with the Bamberg Symphony and the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra include both Mendelssohn concertos and the Strauss Burlesque, and his solo recordings are of works by Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Prokofiev, all if which have garnered the most enthusiastic critical acclaim.

Mr. Edelmann has played extensively in recitals and has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the American Symphony Orchestra, and other major orchestras across Europe, the Far East and North and South America.

Sergei Edelmann is a winner of the 1979 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Gina Bachauer Memorial Scholarship at the Juilliard School, and a major prize winner in the 1983 Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition. He is also the recipient of the prestigious 92nd Street YM-YWHA's Shura Cherkassy Recital Award.