Alexei Tartakovsky One-night only Performance

Captivates Piano Masters and Audience

at the Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Hall

  Alexei Tartakovsky (photo credit: JPB Photography)

Alexei Joins the ‘Key Club’ of Star Pianists

 With New York City Event leading to Five Encores

Star pianist Alexei Tartakovsky performed at the legendary Merkin Hall in New York City.  His performance at Merkin Hall was a masterclass in piano recitals including a repertoire with classical pieces from Beethoven, Schumann and Rachmaninoff.  The first half of the concert lasted nearly an hour and his finale received a repeated standing ovation which led to him returning to the stage no less than five times to play to his audience.

Laureate of the 2021 International Beethoven Competition in Bonn, Germany, Russian-American pianist Alexei Tartakovsky has been called a “fantastic musician and pianist” by Martha Argerich and “truly exceptional…superb playing…a thoughtful and serious musician” by the New York Concert Review.  His tonal palette, profound musicianship, superb technique, and exciting artistic approach have thrilled audiences worldwide and established him as one of the brightest talents of his generation.

He first brought attention to his artistry by winning three top prizes in a one-year span (2006-2007) at the Rolf and Brigitte Gardey International Competition in Daytona Beach, Florida, The New York Piano Competition, and the American Fine Arts Festival (AFAF) in New York, which resulted in his performing at Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall).

Immediately after, he became a laureate of the James Mottram International Piano Competition in Manchester (UK) and received 1st prize at the Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition, which he won with unanimous decision by the judges, who called him a “phenomenal, first-rate pianist” and “a monumental talent”.  Additional prizes include 1st prize at the New York Concert Artists International Competition in 2011.  In 2012, he swept all three prizes at the San Jose International Competition: 1st Prize, Audience Prize, and prize for the best performance of a Russian work.​

Since then, he has given concerts both solo and with orchestra in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Russia, Europe, China, and Japan at halls that include the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall, and Carnegie Hall.  His playing has been broadcast on Dutch Radio 4, Polish Radio 2, Russian Radio Orpheus, Chicago’s WFMT, and New York’s WQXR.  Among the orchestras Tartakovsky has performed with are the Jacksonville Symphony, the North Czech Philharmonic, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn (Germany), and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Voronezh Concert Hall (Russia).  Conductors Tartakovsky has collaborated with include Gerard Schwarz, Hans Graf, Fabio Mechetti, Nurhan Arman, Maurice Peress, Yuri Androsov, and Clark Rundell.

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Alexei Tartakovsky (photo credit: Wojciech Grzedzinski)

A highlight of his career was his outstanding performance at the 2015 Chopin International Competition in Warsaw, where he was a semifinalist.  In 2016, Tartakovsky was awarded the French Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition.  In 2021, he received both the 2nd Prize and the Deutsche Telekom StreamOn Beethoven Award at the International Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn, Germany.

Among the musicians he has studied with are Matti Raekallio, Nina Lelchuk, Boris Slutsky, Boris Berman, and Horacio Gutierrez.  Tartakovsky completed his undergraduate studies at Juilliard and Queens College (CUNY), received his Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory, and an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music.  He is currently a doctoral candidate as a student of Richard Goode at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he was awarded the coveted Graduate Center Fellowship.

Tartakovsky teaches at Brooklyn College (CUNY), is Music Director at Church of the Holy Spirit in Lebanon, New Jersey, and maintains a private studio in Raritan, New Jersey.

For more information about Alexei, please visit: www.atartakovsky.com

Notable Attendees included: Pianists Richard Goode, Horacio Gutierrez and Roman Markowitz, Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail, Entrepreneur and Model Elton Ilirjani, New York Artist Management’s Jasna Popovic.

New York Artist Management presented the June 9th performance at the Merkin Hall at The Kaufman Music Center For more information please visit: www.facebook.com/NewYorkArtistManagementNYAM

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Who: The Association of Fundraising Professionals, the largest community of charitable fundraisers and charities in the world, celebrating philanthropy with the following special guests:

National Philanthropy Day Chair T. Denny Sanford, who has given over $1 billion to charity so far and intends to “die broke.”
Educator, innovator and activist Geoffrey Canada, former president of Harlem’s Children Zone
Nonprofit leader and award-winning filmmaker Maria Cuomo Cole, the AFP New York City Chapter’s 2014 Outstanding Philanthropist

Along with our six honorees for the year:

Outstanding Philanthropist: Macon and Joan Brock, Virginia Beach, Va.
Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser: Peter Ferrantelli, San Diego, Calif.
Outstanding Corporation: The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Ga.
Outstanding Foundation: The Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, Winter Park, Fla.
CARTER Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy, Individual: Kinsey Morrison, Louisville, Ky.
CARTER Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy, Group: Youth Making a Difference, Pratt, Kan.

When: Nov. 12, 2015, Reception: 6:30, Event: 7:30 – 9:00 p.m.

Where: Kaufman Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, New York City

Why: National Philanthropy Day, celebrated by thousands of charities and individuals across North America, is the day set aside to remember and commemorate the impact that philanthropy—and those involved in the philanthropic process—has made in our communities and our world.

The honorees in each category were voted upon by AFP members and the general public. More information about each honoree, as well as about National Philanthropy Day, can be found at www.npdlove.com

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Since 1960, the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) has advanced effective and ethical philanthropy by providing advocacy, research, education, mentoring, collaboration and technology opportunities for the world’s largest network of professional fundraisers. AFP’s 33,000 members raise more than $115 billion annually. For more information, go to www.afpnet.org

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