Sergey Belyavsky

Sergey Belyavsky has given recitals and performed as a soloist in such important venues as Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Salle Gaveau (Paris), Carnegie Hall (New York City), Victoria Concert Hall (Geneva), Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Philharmonic Hall, Bozar (Brussels), Abravanel Hall (Salt Lake City), Bass Performance Hall (Fort Worth), the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (Kansas City), Palau de la Música Catalana and L’Auditori (Barcelona), TivoliVredenburg (Utrecht), Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Sydney Conservatory of Music, and the Grand Hall at the Liszt Academy (Budapest), among many others. He has appeared in concerto with internationally acclaimed orchestras such as the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daegu Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès, Israel Sinfonietta Beer-Sheva, Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra, the Utah Symphony Orchestra, and Philharmonie der Nationen.

Belyavsky’s discography comprises four solo albums to much critical and audience acclaim – more recently, an all-Liszt CD, and The Wanderer on the KNS Classical label, which features works by Schubert, Liszt, Saint-Saens and Paganini.

Sergey Belyavsky graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of the legendary Eliso Virsaladze, and he subsequently studied with Lev Natochenny, Gold Medalist of the 1981 Busoni International Piano Competition. He then moved to Kansas City in Missouri, where he studied at Park University under Stanislav Ioudenitch, Gold Medalist of the 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Sergey is currently pursuing a Soloklasse diploma at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with Arie Vardi. His present and past mentors have also included William Grant Naboré and Marian Rybicki.