| Biography | Kirill Gerstein, (born 1979, Voronezh, Soviet Union) is an American and Russian pianist. He was the First Prize winner at the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. He was chosen to receive a 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award, and was selected as Carnegie Hall's "Rising Star" for the 20052006 season. He became an American citizen in 2003 and is currently a professor of piano at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart. He is the 2010 recipient of the $300,000 Gilmore Artist Award.
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