Sergey Schepkin was praised by The Boston Globe for his “uncommon, almost singular capability and integrity.” He has concertized worldwide, from the United States to Europe to East Asia to New Zealand. The concert series and venues where he has appeared include the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Celebrity Series of Boston; Boston’s Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, and the Gardner Museum; Sanders Theater and Paine Hall at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.; the LACMA and Maestro series in Los Angeles; the Rockport and Newport music festivals; London’s Steinway Hall and Proms at St Jude’s festival; National Concert Hall in Dublin; Sibelius Academy in Helsinki; Norwegian Music Academy in Oslo; Grand and Chamber Philharmonic  Halls in St. Petersburg; Hoam Art Hall in Seoul; and Sumida  Triphony Hall in Tokyo, among many others.

Mr. Schepkin’s repertoire includes solo, concerto, and chamber works written over the past four hundred years. He is a renowned interpreter of keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach, and was hailed by The New York Times as “a formidable Bach pianist.” For over 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 having historical performance practice as a source of inspiration. His 1995 début CD of Bach’s Goldberg Variations attracted a lot of attention and was featured on the Fanfare Magazine Want List; his Bach Partitas recordings were nominated for the Indie Award in 1997 and 1998. In 2001, International Piano selected his album of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier I as one of the best recordings of that work ever made. Mr. Schepkin’s second recording of the Goldberg Variations was released in Japan in 2010 and was nominated as the Editor’s Choice by the Geijutsu arts magazine shortly thereafter. His album of Bach’s French Suites and two Fantasias and Fugues, released by Steinway & Sons in 2014, was named one of the CDs of the Year by the Boston Musical Intelligencer. His second recording of Bach’s Partitas, released by Steinway & Sons in 2016, was acclaimed by Gramophone and featured as the CD of the Week by WCRB (Classical Radio Boston). Mr. Schepkin is a recipient of numerous grants and awards, as well as a prizewinner of several international competitions.

A naturalized American, Mr. Schepkin was born in St. Petersburg. Also active as an entrepreneur, Mr. Schepkin launched the Glissando Concert Series, Boston, in September 2018. Now in its eighth season, Glissando concentrates on piano and chamber music and has presented many theme-based concerts featuring outstanding performers from Boston, New York, and Pittsburgh. One of Mr. Schepkin’s large-scale projects for Glissando was his performance of the thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas in ten programs, starting live in the fall of 2019.

Schepkin is a Steinway Artist. Recordings on Ongaku, Bridge, Centaur, Simax. For more information, please visit https://schepkin.com/biography/