Behzod Abduraimov (Behzod Abduraimov) |

Behzod Abduraimov

The pianist’s international career began in 2009, after winning the London International Competition: the “gold” artist owes his interpretation of Prokofiev’s Third Concerto, which captivated the jury. This was followed by invitations to perform with the London and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, with whom Abduraimov played the Saint-Saens and Tchaikovsky concertos. In 2010, the pianist made his triumphant debut at London’s Wigmore Hall.

Abduraimov came to success at the age of 18. He was born in 1990 in Tashkent, at the age of 5 he began to study music, at the age of 6 he entered the Republican Music Academic Lyceum, in the class of Tamara Popovich. At the age of 8 he made his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan, in subsequent years he also performed in Russia, Italy and the USA. In 2008 he won the International Competition in Corpus Christi (USA, Texas). He continued his education at the International Music Center of Park University (USA, Kansas City), where Stanislav Yudenich was his teacher.

In 2011, Abduraimov signed a contract with the Decca Classics label, becoming its exclusive artist. The pianist’s first solo disc includes Saint-Saens’ Dance of Death, Delusion and Prokofiev’s Sixth Sonata, as well as fragments from the cycle Poetic and Religious Harmonies and Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1. The disc was highly acclaimed by international critics. In 2014, the pianist released his second album with recordings of concerts by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, accompanied by the Italian National Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yuri Valchukha).

He has performed with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the NHK Orchestra (Japan) and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conducted by such conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, James Gaffigan, Thomas Dausgaard, Vasily Petrenko, Tugan Sokhiev, Manfred Honeck, Yakub Grusha, Vladimir Yurovsky. In the summer of 2016 he made his debut with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. He also played with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Lyon, the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the North German Radio Orchestra at the Philharmonic am Elbe in Hamburg. He has given solo concerts at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, at festivals in Verbier and Roque d’Anthéron.

In 2017, Abduraimov toured Asia with the Japanese Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra, the Beijing and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestras, the Beijing National Performing Arts Center Orchestra, made a solo tour of Australia, was first invited to festivals in Baden-Baden and Rheingau, made his debut at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and London’s Barbican Hall. This season he has given solo concerts at the Mariinsky Theatre, in Paris, London and Munich, and has toured the United States. He is expected in Dortmund, Frankfurt, Prague, Glasgow, Oslo, Reykjavik, Bilbao, Santander and again in London and Paris.