Max Mostovetski – Russian Grand Piano by Jakob Becker, St Petersburg, c.1886-7

The young, multi-award-winning pianist Max Mostovetski from Leipzig (Germany) recounts the legendary meeting of Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky which took place in his hometown in 1888 and performs masterpieces by these composers. Playing on a Russian Becker piano of 1886-7 and building on Tchaikovsky´s music, the program also features works by other great Russian composers of that era.
The pianist moderates the concert, providing fascinating insights into the creation of the pieces and the lives of these great masters.

Max Mostovetski (2001) began his piano studies at the age of five in Leipzig with Kateryna Blyum, his teacher for 14 years. During this period he has won numerous prizes in different piano competitions, such as the “7th National Bach Competition for Young Pianists”, in Köthen (first prize); the “18th CarlSchroeder Piano Competition” (first prize); the “Robert Schumann Youth Piano Competition” (third prize); the “Kiwanis Piano Competition” (first prize); the “62nd Grotrian-Steinweg International Piano Competition” (first prize) , the “German National Youth Music Competition” in the category piano solo (first prize and highest score) and the “International C.M.v.Weber Piano Competition 2021” (second prize). Besides participating in competitions, Max performs regularly in concerts throughout Austria, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. He has also performed with the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra, Dresden University Orchestra, Gotha-Eisenach Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leipzig Youth Symphony Orchestra with piano concertos from Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann. He is currently studying at the “University of Music Franz Liszt” in Weimar with Prof. Grigory Gruzman.