Eduard Kunz BiographyNamed one of ten of the ten great pianists of tomorrow by the
BBC Music Magazine, Eduard Kunz has performed and broadcast frequently with many major European orchestras, including, among many others, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pomeranian Philharmonic, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and the Braunschweig Symphony Orchestra.
He has appeared in recital at Wigmore Hall in London, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Louvre in Paris, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, among many other venues. His performances have been broadcast on major classical stations, including BBC Radio 3, Radio France, Deutschland Radio Kultur, and Orpheus Radio.
New projects include debuts with the Russian National Philharmonic and Russian Symphony orchestras, solo appearances in the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, recital tours of Italy, Spain, Japan and Poland, and chamber music recitals with such musicians as Sol Gabetta, Julian Rachlin, Boris Andrianov and Alexandru Tomescu. Other collaborations include piano duos with Alexander Ghindin and Andrei Diev and a special Scarlatti project with bayanist (accordionist) Yuri Medyanik.
Mr. Kunz had one of the most successful competition careers of his generation, winning 13 first prizes at major contests, including the Grand Prix of the Enescu Competition in Bucharest and gold medals at both the New Orleans and Paderewski competitions. Other awards included a silver medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians in London, awards from the Hattori Foundation, and the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe prize.
Teaching younger colleagues is Mr. Kunz’s passion, and he will conduct a series of master classes in Italy as well as in Spain, the U.S. and Russia. He is a guest professor at the Schlern International Music Festival in South Tirol.
Born in Siberia, Mr. Kunz studied with Mikhail Khokhlov at the Gnessin Secondary School for gifted children and with Andrei Diev at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and gained his postgraduate diploma with distinction as well as the gold medal for performance from the Royal Northern College of Music, studying with Norma Fisher and late Mark Ray.
Mr. Kunz is a Moscow Philharmonic Society Artist, a Verbier Festival laureate, a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and a Global Yamaha Artist.
