Pianist Boris Giltburg is lauded across the globe as a deeply sensitive, insightful and compelling musician. Born in 1984 in Moscow, he moved to Tel Aviv at an early age, studying with his mother and then with Arie Vardi. He went on to win numerous awards, notably the First (and Audience) Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 2013.

Giltburg has appeared with leading orchestras worldwide such as the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, NHK Symphony, WDR Cologne, Oslo Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France and Baltimore and Seattle symphonies. He made his Australian debut in 2017 and has frequently toured China and South America. Since his BBC Proms debut in 2010 he has appeared at many of the major festivals, and has played recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London’s Southbank Centre and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

In 2020 he recorded on audio and audiovisual all 32 Beethoven sonatas, released in a boxed set in 2021. He has also recorded the complete Beethoven piano concertos with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko, with whom he previously recorded both Shostakovich concertos, winning a Diapason d’Or; this recording also featured his own arrangement of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 for solo piano. The first volume in his complete Rachmaninov concerto recordings series, coupled with the Études-tableaux and subsequently the Corelli Variations and performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Carlos Miguel Prieto, won the award for Best Solo Recording at the inaugural Opus Klassik Awards, and his recital discs of Rachmaninov, Liszt and Schumann have been similarly well received.

Giltburg is an avid amateur photographer and blogger, writing about classical music for a non-specialist audience.

For more information, please visit www.borisgiltburg.com.

Filming Rachmaninov’s Études-tableaux all night – an article by Gramophone magazine | Listen to the music on YouTube

A German interview with Boris Giltburg by Pizzicato