Behzod Abduraimov
Behzod Abduraimov (born September 11, 1990 in Tashkent , Uzbek SSR ) is an Uzbek pianist .
Life
Abduraimov started playing the piano at the age of five. At the age of eight he made his debut with the Uzbekistan State Symphony Orchestra. Concerts in the USA , Italy and Russia followed. He played repeatedly at the Spiwakow Foundation and at the "International Summer Academy" in Como (Italy). In 2008 he won the "Lennox Young Artist Competition" and the "Corpus Christi Competition". In 2009, at the age of 18, he surprisingly won the “London International Piano Competition” with his interpretation of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 . In October 2010 he won the Kissinger Piano Olympics .
Abduraimov then studied with Stanislav Ioudenitch at the International Center for Music at Park University in Kansas City (USA).
From the 2015/16 season to 2017/18, Behzod Abduraimov was an artist in the “Junge Wilde” series at the Dortmund Konzerthaus .
Abduraimov has performed with orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra , the Boston Symphony Orchestra , the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic . He worked with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy , Valery Gergiev , Manfred Honeck and Vasily Petrenko .
His debut album with studio recordings of Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6 and works by Franz Liszt and Camille Saint-Saëns was released by Decca Classics in 2012 and won the Choc de Classica and the Diapason Découverte. His first concert CD with Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai followed in 2014. His debut at the BBC Proms in 2016 with the Munich Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev was released on DVD in 2018.
Web links
- Biography (English) with photo ( Memento from April 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abduraimov, Behzod |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uzbek pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tashkent , Uzbek SSR |