New Ross Piano Festival

2013 ARTISTS

	ALEXANDER BERNSTEIN Alexander Bernstein, pianist, currently attends the Royal Irish Academy of Music under the tutelage of John O’Conor. Alexander graduated from Harvard University in May 2010 where he studied privately with Stephen Drury of the New England Conservatory. The San Francisco native began piano lessons at age 7, later moving to Walla Walla, Washington where he studied for nine years in the studio of Professor Debra Bakland. Read more...
	FINGHIN COLLINS One of Ireland's most successful musicians, Dubliner Finghin Collins was born in 1977 and studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with John O'Conor and at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dominique Merlet. Winner of the RTÉ Musician of the Future Competition in 1994 and the Classical Category at the National Entertainment Awards in 1998, he went on to achieve major international success by taking first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland in 1999. Read more...
	ILYA GRINGOLTS Despite his young age, Ilya Gringolts has a lot of musical experience to draw upon. After studying violin and composition in Saint Petersburg with Tatiana Liberova and Jeanna Metallidi, he attended the Juilliard School, where he studied with Itzhak Perlman. Read more...
	NIKOLAY KHOZYAINOV Twenty-year-old winner of the 2012 Dublin International Piano Competition, Nikolay Khozyainov, is from Blagoveschensk in the far eastern region of Russia. From a non-musical family, at the early age of five he decided himself he wanted to play the piano. In 1999, at the age of seven, he began his studies at the Central Musical School at the P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and currently studies with Mikhail Voskresensky. Read more...
	DENIS KOZHUKHIN Denis Kozhukhin was launched onto the international scene after winning First Prize in the 2010 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Previous awards include 1st Prize at the Vendome Prize in Lisbon in 2009, and 3rd Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006. Read more...
	LILYA ZILBERSTEIN Lilya Zilberstein got her first taste of international success in 1987 when she won the Busoni Competition in Bolzano. Her victory was a sensation – it took five years before the first prize was even awarded again. By 1988, the Moscow-born pianist was able to perform at big tours abroad in the West. Travelling for her concerts took her to almost all of the European countries, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Canada and Brazil. Read more...
	RTÉ VANBRUGH QUARTET Gregory Ellis - Keith Pascoe - Simon Aspell - Christopher Marwood Awe-inspiring and infinitely moving… the kind of experience one encounters on only a few occasions in a lifetime… only one or two ensembles in the world plumb such depths. These were among the reactions of Strad magazine to the Vanbrugh Quartet’s twenty-fifth aniversary Beethoven cycle at London’s Cadogan Hall in November 2010. Read more...