Andrei Romanov, Piano

Andrei Romanov is a New York based pianist and composer, who is rising to international acclaim for his performance and musicianship. He has given concerts in Russia, Finland, Kazakhstan, the United States, Israel, and Italy, and has played in such notable venues as Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Moscow International House of Music, Symphony Space in New York, Carnegie Hall, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Concert Hall.

He gave his solo debut with orchestra in 2014, under the baton of Anatoly Levin, playing Prokofiev’s first piano concerto in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Since then he has appeared multiple times with orchestra. He performed concerti by Prokofiev, Eshpai, Rachmaninoff in various cities in Russia and the United States. He most recently played the third concerto by Beethoven with the Camerata Orchestra of New York. He has played numerous solo recitals in Russia, Finland, Kazakhstan, and the United States. During 2022, Andrei Romanov performed 8 solo recitals in USA, in addition to many other concert appearances. He performed his own transcriptions of Piazzolla in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie in May of 2022.

Romanov has garnered recognition in competitions across Europe and the United States. In 2008, he won first prize at the Concorso Internazionale di Musica in Giovanno del Colle, Italy, and in 2015 was a prize winner in the sixth Seattle International Piano Competition. Between 2008 and 2016, he won six national Russian competitions for performance and improvisation. In 2016 and 2019 he won first prize at the Improvisation Competition of the Moscow State Conservatory. Romanov won absolute first prize for piano and third prize for composition in the 17th International Music Performance Competition “Don Vincenzo Vitti” of Italy in 2021. Most recently he won third prize in the American Virtuoso International Music Competition, a Steinway Award in 2022, and won first prize on Music of the World International Competition in Israel in 2023.

In 2018, 2019 and 2020 he participated in the Tel Hai Piano Master Classes in Israel, where he
performed and studied with Emanuel Krasovsky, Victor Derevianko, Oxana Yablonskaya, Victor
Rosenbaum. He was a scholarship recipient at the Snowpond Music Festival in Maine, and East
Carolina Piano Festival, where he studied with Boris Berman. Outside of his structured
education, he has studied privately with Oleg Maisenberg in Vienna, and played in master classes for Vladimir Feltsman, and Shai Wosner.

Aside from being a classical pianist, Romanov is a composer whose music is widely performed. In 2016, twelve concerts of his works were performed in the festival “The Moscow Conservatory Invites”. His piece for flute ensemble “Alice in Wonderland” has been performed on a graduation exam of the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow. A recording of his original composition titled “New York” was played at the New York City Colloquium at The New School. In 2021, the Jack Quartet premiered Romanov’s quartet for strings. In addition to his original compositions, he has written a vast set of transcriptions of Vivaldi, Shnittke, and Piazzolla, among many others. He has participated in master classes with Louis Andriessen, Philippe Leroux and Efrem Podgaits. He studied composition with Lowell Lieberman at the Mannes School of Music, and under Valeriya Usacheva, Konstantin Batashev at the Academic Music College in Moscow.

Romanov is a dedicated pedagogue of piano, composition, and musicianship. He is currently on
the piano faculty at the Zeta Charter School in New York, the Bronx School for Music, and Opus
One Music. In 2023, one of his piano and composition students performed his original
composition at the German Consulate in New York City. In addition to private lessons, Romanov
has developed age-appropriate curricula of music history, music appreciation, and eurhythmics. Previously, he held the position of Teaching Artist at the Manhattan School of Music outreach program, through which he taught private lessons and masterclasses. In 2021, Romanov collaborated with the Boys’ Club of New York to provide arts exposure to boys from
impoverished and single-parent homes.

Romanov graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory under Elena Kuznetsova and Sergey
Kuznetsov in 2020. In 2017 and 2020, Romanov became a recipient of Guzik Foundation grant,
which directly enabled his education in the United States. He completed his Master’s degree at
the Manhattan School of Music under Nina Svetlanova. Romanov received a Professional
Studies Diploma from the Mannes School of Music, with a double major in piano and
composition, under professors Pavlina Dokovska and Lowell Liebermann respectively. Starting
in 2023, Romanov is pursuing a doctor of musical arts degree with full scholarship and teaching
assistantship in SUNY Stony Brook in the studio of Gilbert Kalish.

As a musician, Romanov has explored areas outside of classical performance. In 2019, he shared the stage with Pinchas Zukerman as a harpsichordist. He has studied jazz, Afro-Cuban, and Afro-Brazilian music under Joan Styles, Ted Rosenthal, Bobby Sanabria, Barry Harris, Kirk Nurock, Brian Marsella, and David Glasser.