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Pavel
Yeletskiy
Concert pianist.
From the solo recital to the orchestral stage.
PAVEL YELETSKIY · PIANO01 / Biography
A life at
the piano.
Born in Belarus, Pavel Yeletskiy began playing the piano at the age of five. His father was his first and most important teacher.
He studied with his father until moving to Moscow in 1995, and continued to work with him after the move.
His early competition successes in the 1990s included the Ogiński Competition in Smorgon, a piano competition in Smolensk, and the Tsvetaeva Competition in 1993. He entered Moscow’s Central Special Music School in 1995, in the class of Valery Kastelskiy, and toured Japan and France in 1998.
From 1999 to 2004 he studied at the Moscow State Conservatoire with Lev Naumov. His performances during this period included the Conservatoire’s Great, Rachmaninoff and Small Halls and the concert hall of the Gnesin Music Academy.
From 2004 to 2007 he pursued postgraduate studies at the Moscow State Conservatoire and defended his diploma thesis on Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28, and Francisco Goya’s etchings.
In 2013 he received a Soloist Diploma from the Bern University of the Arts, where he studied with Tomasz Herbut.
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Awarded Second Prize at the Horowitz International Piano Competition in Kyiv in 2001, Pavel Yeletskiy has performed in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Germany, France, Switzerland, Brazil and the United States.
He has appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Minsk State Philharmonic Orchestra, Ukraine Philharmonic Orchestra, National Academy Orchestra of Ukraine, Kurashiki Philharmonic Orchestra, Collegium Musicum and Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra, among others.
His collaborators have included Jos van Immerseel, Daniel Klajner, Johannes Schlaefli, Mark Russell Smith, Roman Kofman, Vladimir Sirenko, Nikolaj Diadiura and Aleksandr Anisimov.
Festival appearances include Kyiv Music Autumn, Kyiv Summer Music Evenings, the festival marking the bicentenary of Frédéric Chopin, Interlaken Classics and the Davos Festival.
In 2009 he received Second Prize and the Schubert Prize at the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition. He was a prizewinner at the third International Kurt Leimer Competition in Zurich in 2011 and received the Kehl Special Prize at the Géza Anda Competition in Zurich in 2012. In July 2014 he won First Prize and the Audience Award at the sixth Lyon International Piano Competition.
Second
Prize
Second Prize
& Schubert Prize
Kehl
Special Prize
First Prize
& Audience Award
02 / Recordings
Listen.
Watch.
Solo recitals and chamber music from Minnesota, Cleveland, Zurich and Lyon.
Carnaval, Op. 9
Pavel Yeletskiy · piano
03 / Repertoire
The
repertoire.
Solo piano, chamber music and concertos.
Pavel Yeletskiy’s repertoire ranges from Scarlatti, Mozart and Beethoven to the Romantic composers and the music of Ravel and Prokofiev.
Schubert · Chopin · Schumann · Liszt · Brahms · Saint-Saëns · Tchaikovsky · Mussorgsky · Rachmaninoff · Scriabin
04 / Concert archive
On stage.
Past performances, 2016–2021.
Wohlen AG · Wohlen BE
Elfenaupark, Bern
Kantiforum, Wohlen AG · Elfenaupark, Bern
Musiksommer am Zürchersee, Lachen
Lyon · Murten Classics · Lenk · Bern · Thun
Photographs
05 / Contact
Let’s be
in touch.
For concert enquiries and correspondence.