Evgeny Sinaiski comes from an acclaimed musical
family and is a pianist who has dedicated his life to chamber performance
and teaching, absorbing the traditions of both the Russian and
western European schools. He regularly appears in recitals and partners
other renowned musicians in chamber ensembles and at master-classes.
Though young, Evgeny Sinaiski is an experienced teacher. In his career as
a mentor he naturally combines the classical teaching traditions
of St Petersburg with a contemporary approach to performance practice.
His students include prize-winners at local and international chamber music
competitions.
Evgeny Sinaiski was born in 1973 in Leningrad. He first studied
music at the Lyceum School of the Latvian Academy
of Music (Riga). In 1987 he entered the Middle Special School
of Music of the Leningrad State Conservatoire, class
of Marina Wolf. In 1997 he graduated from the St Petersburg State
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Marina Wolf) and completed
a post-graduate study at the Royal Conservatoire in The
Hague (class of Professor Naum Grubert). His teachers included Tamara
Fidler, Sofia Vakman and Sergei Uryvaev.
Evgeny Sinaiski has won prizes at numerous international competitions,
among them the Young Pianists’ Competition (Riga, 1984),
the International Chamber Ensembles’ Competition (Heerlen, Netherlands,
1995), the International Dmitry Shostakovich Chamber Ensembles’ Competition
(Hanover, Germany, 1997) and the ARD International Chamber Ensembles’
Competition (Munich, Germany, 1998). He has received diplomas as best
accompanist at international competitions in Poznaс and Wrocіaw
(Poland, 2004 and 2006) and trainee prizes at the Prussia
Cove international festival (Great Britain, 2006) and the Prague
Conservatoire (2008).
Evgeny Sinaiski frequently appears in concerts as a soloist,
ensemble-player and accompanist. He has performed at the Great and
Small Halls of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the Great Hall
of the Moscow Conservatoire and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
(Moscow), the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus (Vienna), the GroЯe
Saal of the Mozarteum (Salzburg), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam),
the Alte Oper (Frankfurt), the Herkulessaal (Munich), the Palais
des Beaux-Arts (Brussels) and various concert halls in the USA, Italy
and Great Britain.
Evgeny Sinaiski has performed with such acclaimed ensembles as
the Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Latvian Chamber
Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
(Minsk). Since 1996 Sinaiski has been a key participant
at the Summer School Marktoberdorf (Germany), and since 2000 he has
been a permanent concertmaster at the International Summer
Academy of the Mozarteum (Salzburg).
From 2001 to 2010 the pianist taught a chamber ensemble class
at the Middle Special School of Music at the St
Petersburg State Conservatoire and at special music classes
of the St Petersburg Philharmonic Society. Since 2010 he has been
a Professor of Chamber Music at Vienna’s Konservatorium. Since
2011 he has taught the piano duet class at the Folkwang
Universitдt der Kьnste in Essen. His pupils include prize-winners
at international competitions of chamber ensembles. Evgeny Sinaiski
collaborates with recording studios and radio stations including Gramola
(Austria), TRK Peterburg (Russia), the BBC (Great Britain), Sьdwestrundfunk
(Germany), Radio 4 (Netherlands) and Flemish Radio (Belgium).
Evgeny Sinaiski’s music partners include such acclaimed musicians as Pinchas
Zukerman, Boris Kuschnir, Hatto Beyerle, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Helmut Zehetmair,
Ivan Monighetti, Antonina Kazarina, Vadim Gluzman, Latica Honda-Rosenberg,
Janine Jansen, Dora Schwarzberg, Jens Peter Maintz, Peter Kurau.