Russian pianist Andrei Pisarev: “His playing is remarkable for its composure and complete virtuoso command. The faultless proportions, the air of rapt simplicity, the perfect sense of balance and phrase were often breathtaking,” wrote The Pretoria News after Andrei Pisarev received the 1st Prize in the Unisa Transnet International Piano Competition and Special Prizes for the best performances of a classical sonata and a Mozart piano concerto in Pretoria in 1992.

Andrei Pisarev was born in the old Russian city of Rostov-on-the-Don the 6^th of November, 1962. He began his musical education at the age of seven. In 1978 he entered the Secondary Music School affiliated with the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and after graduating in 1982, he became a student of Professor Sergei Dorensky at the Moscow Conservatory where he received his M.A. degree in 1989.

Meanwhile, in 1983, Mr. Pisarev won 1st Prize in the Rachmaninov Piano Competition in Moscow and in 1991 he was awarded 1st Prize in The International Mozart Competition, Salzburg, Austria. He received 4th Prize in the Buzoni International Piano Competition and was awarded a Special Prize by RAI for the best performance of Mozart in Bolzano in 1991.

Andrei Pisarev is a pianist of rare artistic temperament who is equally at home with the works of Bach, Mozart, Liszt and Chopin as well as with the works of Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. He has performed as a soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras in the United States, Germany, Italy, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Bulgaria, South Africa, Japan, Russia and the former Soviet Union.