VITALY PISARENKO piano

Critically acclaimed as a pianist of an unusually soft touch, prodigious technique and captivating expressiveness, Vitaly has performed in over 30 countries, including solo recitals at such prestigious venues as Wigmore Hall, the Musikverein in Vienna, Bozar in Brussels, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Shanghai Concert Hall, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, deSingel in Antwerp, Toyota Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris, and the Palace of Arts in Budapest. The Association of Music Critics of Argentina presented Vitaly with the “2018 Revelation Award”.

He has appeared as a soloist with such renowned orchestras as the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Noord Nederlands Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra on tour in Japan, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Het Gelders Orchestra, in major venues including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Cadogan Hall in London, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Tokyo Opera City, Seoul Arts Center, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Sala São Paulo in Brazil and De Doelen in Rotterdam, among others.

Performances in 2023-2025 include the tours in China, recitals in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Argentina, Singapore (at the Esplanade Concert Hall and at the Victoria Concert Hall), Brazil (at the Sala San Paulo and at the Sala Cecilia Meireles in Rio de Janeiro amongst other cities). Festival appearances include the Michelangeli Piano Festival, Lerici Music Festival, Guiting Festival, Zacatecas International Music Festival and Liszt Festival in Bavaria amongst others.

Vitaly Pisarenko commenced his study in Moscow with Professor Yuri Slesarev at the Central Music School and the State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He furthered his studies at the Royal College of Music in the class of Professor Dmitri Alexeev, and completed his Master’s degree in 2014 and Artist Diploma degree in 2015 as an Emma Rose Memorial Scholar and a Bob and Sarah Wigley and Helmut Schuster Scholar. Since January 2020, Pisarenko has been a principal study teacher at the Purcell School for Young Musicians, and since 2023, a Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Music, London.

“…Immensely gifted pianist…with prodigious technique, myriad shadings and scrupulous accuracy…” 

New York Times