Sergey Schepkin,
Piano

Praised by The Boston Globe for his “uncommon, almost singular capability and integrity,” Sergey Schepkin has concertized worldwide, from the United States to Europe to Japan to New Zealand. Mr. Schepkin’s vast repertoire includes solo, concerto, and chamber works written over the past four hundred years. He is particularly interested in keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach, and was hailed as “a formidable Bach pianist” by The New York Times. For nearly thirty years, he has been engaged in a large-scale project that aims to perform and record Bach’s keyboard works on the modern piano, while using historical performance practice as a source of inspiration. His Bach albums include two recordings of the Goldberg Variations, two recordings of the six Partitas, both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier, and the six French Suites, as well as recordings of the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, the Italian Concerto, the Four Duets, and the Overture in the French Style. 

A naturalized American, Mr. Schepkin was born in St. Petersburg. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, as well as with Russell Sherman at New England Conservatory, where he earned an Artist Diploma in 1992 and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1999. He also studied French repertoire with the legendary French-American pianist Paul Doguereau. Also active as educator, Mr. Schepkin has presented master classes and lecture-recitals throughout the USA and abroad. He is Professor of Piano at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and is on the piano faculty at New England Conservatory’s Preparatory School. He also teaches privately in Boston. He is a recipient of numerous grants and awards, as well as a prizewinner of several international competitions, including the 1988 Crown Princess Sonja of Norway International Music Competition (third prize) and the 1999 New Orleans International Piano Competition (first and Chopin prizes). 

In September 2018, Mr. Schepkin launched Glissando Concert Series, Boston, and has presented many theme-based concerts featuring artists from Boston and New York. His own most recent performance project, a presentation of the thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas in ten programs, started live in the fall of 2019 and continued virtually throughout the Covid pandemic. The sonatas were predominantly grouped according to their keys, which revealed their manifold inner connections. The last virtual concert of this cycle appeared in December 2022, and the complete cycle is now posted on YouTube and Vimeo. 

Sergey Schepkin is a Steinway Artist. He is based in Boston.