Kirill Gerstein

Kirill Gerstein is a Russian-American classical pianist, born in Voronezh in 1979 and based in Berlin. He first trained in jazz, becoming the youngest student admitted to Boston's Berklee College of Music. He won the Arthur Rubinstein competition in 2001 and the Gilmore Artist Award in 2010, and his 2015 recording of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto in its 1879 version won an ECHO Klassik award.