Vladimir Stoupel

VLADIMIR STOUPEL [1] is a pianist. He was born in the Soviet Union and currently lives in Berlin, Germany.

He was a top prizewinner at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1986, and has performed as soloist with many of the leading orchestras of the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Symphony and the Russian State Orchestra. He has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Christian Thielemann, Michail Jurowski, Leopold Hager, Marek Janowski, Steven Sloane and Günther Neuhold. His extensive discography includes a critically acclaimed debut CD, released in 1998 on the RPC label, featuring piano music of Shostakovich. Other recordings include the complete works for piano solo of Arnold Schoenberg on the auris subtilis label and a soon to be released recording of the complete Piano Sonatas of Scriabin. His recording of the complete works for Viola and Piano by Henri Vieuxtemps with violist Thomas Selditz was awarded the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik", the highest German award for a CD-recording, in 2003.

As a chamber musician, Mr. Stoupel returns every year to the New York Philharmonic’s chamber music series at Merkin and Avery Fischer Halls. He collaborates frequently with outstanding opera singers such as baritone Wolfgang Brendel, mezzo-soprano Elena Zaremba and bass Evgeny Nesterenko and performs regularly with violinists Judith Ingolfsson[2] and Mark Peskanov, with the cellist Peter Bruns and with the Robert Schumann String Quartet.

Mr. Stoupel participates in many major festivals including the Berliner Festwochen, the Helsinki Festival and the Bargemusic Festival[3] in New York. In the Piano en Valois Festival, he played the entire cycle of Scriabin’s sonatas in a single performance by memory.

Vladimir Stoupel began studying the piano at age three with his mother, Rimma Bobritskaia. He made his concerto debut at age 12, playing Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. He later studied piano with Evgeny Malinin and conducting with Gennady Rozhdestvensky at the Moscow Conservatory, and was a pupil of the renowned Russian pianist Lazar Berman for almost five years.