"The beauty of Temirzhan Yerzhanov’s piano tone, not voluptuous, never cloying, yet luminous and firm, was immediately apparent as was his clarity of texture…the pianism was unfailingly brilliant," reads Musical Opinion, the UK's oldest and influential magazine, on his London debut recital at the Wigmore Hall.
The pianist from Kazakhstan launched his career by winning the First Prize and Gold Medal at the XIth International Robert Schumann Piano Competition 1993 in Zwickau, Germany, one of the most respected in the world.
Since then, Temirzhan Yerzhanov has toured in Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic, USA, China and India. As a soloist he has performed with many orchestras including Moscow Radio Tchaikovsky Symphony, Philharmonisches Orchester PlauenZwickau, Sacramento Philharmonic, San Luis Obispo Symphony, The Kazakh Philharmonic and The Symphony Orchestra of India.
He has appeared in a wide range of venues such as Berlin Konzerthaus and Leipzig Gewandhaus, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Dresden Sempergalerie, Schumann and Tchaikovsky Memorial Houses, Salle Gaveau in Paris and Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in New York, Moscow and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Halls.Yerzhanov has been featured on broadcasts of BBC Radio, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Russia, Capital Radio Sacramento, Kazakh TV and others. Deutsche Radio Berlin, Hong Kong Radio and Russian Orpheus
Radio have made his studio recordings and presented him in live concert broadcasts and talk shows. He garnered much praise for his first solo CD album of Schumann works, released by RCD label.
A diverse musician, Mr. Yerzhanov conceived and performed unusual projects such as Rossini's Petite Messe Sollennele and the jubilee recital Prokofiev. Almaty. 1942-1943, featuring all the piano scores that composer wrote during his residency in Yerzhanov’s home city. His New York debut at the Merkin Hall was marked by the World premiere of Almas Serkebaev's Piano Concerto and his San Francisco debut recital included US premiere of Igor Khudoley's Boris Godunov Suite, a work both virtuosic and profound. Conductors he has worked with include Vladimir Fedoseev, Lothar Seyfart, Johannes Wildner, Michael Morgan, Jiří Malát and many others.
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