Russian born Eduard Zilberkant is recognized as one of today’s most gifted artists and has an active career as pianist and conductor. Maestro Zilberkant has been received enthusiastically by audiences and press alike throughout Europe, Canada and the United States, performing in such halls as The Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Curtis Hall at Curtis Institute of Music, Merkin Hall at Kaufman Center in New York City, Artur Rubinstein Hall and Warsaw Philharmonic Hall in Poland, Teatro Sangiorgi in Catania, Sicily, Volgograd Opera House in Russia and Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage. He has been a guest artist and conductor at some of the world’s most prestigious music festivals, which include the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York City, the Piano Summer at New Paltz Institute and Festival in New York, the Ravello Festival in Italy, the Corfu Festival Ionian Concert Series in Greece, the Manolis Kalomiris International Music Festival in Samos, Greece, the Assisi International Festival and Orazio Frugoni Music Institute in Italy, the Baracasa Festival of Radio France in Montpellier, France and the Bellingham Music Festival in Washington.
For the past eight years, Maestro Zilberkant has been on faculty at the
International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York City. He is also Music
Director and Conductor of the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra and Arctic Chamber
Orchestra. Under his leadership, these orchestras have toured in the continental
United States, Canada and Alaska. In addition, the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra
recorded the Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on the AMICME Classical label of
Greece for the Universal Company with pianist, Lambis Vassiliadis and Maestro
Zilberkant conducting. During the 50th anniversary celebration of the Fairbanks
Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Zilberkant and the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra were
invited by the Greek government to tour with concerts in Corfu and Samos.
Maestro Zilberkant is a sought after guest conductor. Some of the orchestras he
has conducted include the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Prague and on
tour to Germany, the Orchestra of Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano in Italy, the
Martinu Chamber Orchestra in the Czech Republic and Germany, the Orchestra of
the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Sicily, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
in New York City, and the Prague Philharmonia on tour to the Ravello Festival in
Italy.
The German newspaper, Schwabisches Tagblatt wrote of his performance of the
Dvorak’s “New World Symphony”, “[Maestro Zilberkant] made an impression for
feeling the nuances of the tempo, pauses, and accents…he brought out new colors
and romantic feeling with full balance of the sound from the orchestra.”
After his performance of the Mozart Symphony No. 41, the Anchorage Daily News
wrote: “[ Maestro Zilberkant] brought admirable intelligence to his reading
of the piece…and sculpting the individual lines into a monumental and heroic
structure; his weaving of the finale’s awesome counterpoint show him to be a
musician of significance whom we hope to hear again.”
A Fulbright Scholar in Germany, Eduard Zilberkant received a Solisten Diploma
from the Freiburg Musik Hochschule. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts
degree from Temple University in Philadelphia. Maestro Zilberkant is Artist in
Residence at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is also a Yamaha performing
artist.
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