Kirill Gliadkovsky will perform Hidden Piano Gems – Great Piano Music of Lesser-Known Composers.
Works by Joseph Bologne, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence Price, Manuel Ponce, Alexina Louie, and Arno Babajanian.
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art
Sunday, April 6 at 3:00 PM
Since making his first public appearance in Moscow at the age of 6, Mr. Gliadkovsky has toured extensively on three continents performing piano and organ recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in various cities in Russia, including Moscow's prestigious Bolshoi, as well as in Italy, U.K., Poland, Mongolia, Canada, Japan and throughout the United States. He has worked with well-known conductors Pierre Boulez, Mehli Mehta, Gordon Johnson, John Farrer, Mischa Semanitzky, Patrick Flynn, among others. He has seven CD’s, as well as multiple broadcasts of his concerts on nationwide TV and Radio networks in USA, Russia and other countries.
Mr. Gliadkovsky's performances have been met with great enthusiasm by both audiences and music critics in Europe, Russia and North America. Josef Woodard, a critic at the Los Angeles Times, wrote: "...the intensity and a nicely honed musicality left the audience stunned...enthralling...all in all, a gripping and masterful performance". “Fine dramatic sense…appealing range of emotional effects and pianistic devices…wonderful” writes Fort Worth Star-Telegram; “The most impressive…memorable… deep musician… fine interpretation” - Izvestia (Moscow, Russia).
Dr. Gliadkovsky combines his busy concert schedule with teaching at Saddleback College as a Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies. Prior to coming to Saddleback, he has been on the piano faculty at USC and Santa Monica College and served as the Head of the Piano Area at SUU (Southern Utah University) in Cedar City, UT. Mr. Gliadkovsky has been in demand as a masterclass artist-teacher, guest lecturer and piano adjudicator in piano competitions in many US cities.
He, his wife Anna, and their two daughters, Anastassia and Sophia perform as a family piano ensemble, both nationally and internationally.