Max Mostovetski – piano

Lecture Recital: “The Sound of Possibility” – Bach Across Instruments

The young, multi-award-winning pianist Max Mostovetski from Leipzig returns to the UK with a truly special programme: works by Johann Sebastian Bach, arguably the most significant composer of his hometown and one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time. Throughout the recital, Mostovetski offers insights into the world of polyphonic Baroque music and demonstrates how remarkably different Bach’s music can sound when performed on instruments of different centuries from the collection.

Max Mostovetski (2001) began his piano studies at the age of five in Leipzig with Kateryna Blyum, his teacher for 14 years. During this period he has won numerous prizes in different piano competitions, such as the “7th National Bach Competition for Young Pianists”, in Köthen (first prize); the “18th CarlSchroeder Piano Competition” (first prize); the “Robert Schumann Youth Piano Competition” (third prize); the “Kiwanis Piano Competition” (first prize); the “62nd Grotrian-Steinweg International Piano Competition” (first prize) , the “German National Youth Music Competition” in the category piano solo (first prize and highest score) and the “International C.M.v.Weber Piano Competition 2021” (second prize). Besides participating in competitions, Max performs regularly in concerts throughout Austria, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. He has also performed with the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra, Dresden University Orchestra, Gotha-Eisenach Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leipzig Youth Symphony Orchestra with piano concertos from Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann. He is currently studying at the “University of Music Franz Liszt” in Weimar with Prof. Grigory Gruzman.