Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Presents: Sergey Schepkin, piano

Artist(s)

Sergey Schepkin, piano: https://schepkin.com/

Praised by The Boston Globe for his “uncommon, almost singular capability and integrity,” Steinway Artist Sergey Schepkin has concertized worldwide, from the United States to Europe to East Asia to New Zealand at major venues and series. He is renowned for his interpretations of keyboard works by Bach and was called “a formidable Bach pianist” by The New York Times.

An avid chamber player, he has performed with many outstanding instrumentalists. He is also interested in period keyboards and occasionally appears as harpsichordist and clavichordist. Mr. Schepkin has presented master classes and lecture-recitals throughout the USA and abroad. He has taught at Boston University, Boston Conservatory, and MIT. He is a Professor of Piano at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and is on the piano faculty at New England Conservatory’s School of Expanded Education in Boston, where he is based.

He is a recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Presser Foundation Award and the Maestro Foundation Genius Grant. He has won prizes in several national and international competitions including New Orleans (1999, first and Chopin prizes) and Crown Princess Sonja of Norway (1988, third prize).

Active as an entrepreneur, Mr. Schepkin launched Glissando Concert Series, Boston in September 2018 and has presented many theme-based concerts. His most encompassing project to date—a performance of the thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas in ten programs to celebrate the composer’s 250th anniversary—started live in the fall of 2019 and continued virtually throughout the Covid pandemic. His Beethoven cycle is now posted on YouTube, as are his videos of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier I and of many Glissando concerts.