Performances + Events
Sergey Schepkin
Education and Training
BM, St. Petersburg Conservatory; AD and DMA, New England Conservatory. He has studied with Alexandra Zhukovsky, Russell Sherman, Grigory Sokolov, and Alexander Ikharev.
Awards and Recognition
Schepkin is a recipient of numerous prizes and awards; his concerts and recordings have garnered critical acclaim from such publications as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Boston Phoenix, the Boston Musical Intelligencer, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, BBC Music Magazine, International Piano, Gramophone, Fanfare, and Musicweb-International.
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was the assistant to Prof. Ekaterina Murina at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1987-89. He made his orchestral début with the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra in 1984. He has been a member of the piano faculty at the NEC School of Preparatory and Adult Education since 1993, and has served as Associate Professor of Piano at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh since 2003. He taught piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1988-90 and coached chamber music at the Boston Conservatory in 2006-07. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Iowa in 1997-98, and a Visiting Associate Professor of Music at Boston University in 2011-13. He was also a member of the Music History and Musicology faculty at NEC in 1995-2006. Schepkin has presented lecture-recitals and master classes at NEC, UCLA, Oberlin, the San Francisco Conservatory, MIT, Longy, Duquesne, the Norwegian Academy of Music, and other institutions of higher learning.
Sergey Schepkin is a Steinway Artist.
Recordings on Ongaku, Bridge, Centaur, Simax.
photo by Carolyn Hine
Curriculum Vitae
BM, St. Petersburg Conservatory; AD and DMA, New England Conservatory. He has studied with Alexandra Zhukovsky, Russell Sherman, Grigory Sokolov, and Alexander Ikharev.
- Schepkin is a recipient of numerous prizes and awards; his concerts and recordings have garnered critical acclaim from such publications as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Boston Phoenix, the Boston Musical Intelligencer, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, BBC Music Magazine, International Piano, Gramophone, Fanfare, and Musicweb-International.
