Program
Beethoven Sonata op.27 no.2 “Moonlight”
Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme of Corelli op.42
Rachmaninoff Suite no.1 op.5 G minor
for two pianos with Kenneth Broberg
Saturday, March 6, 2021
Described by The New York Times as the “master of all he surveys” and with The Washington Post noting to “keep your ear on this one,” Abduraimov’s captivating performances continue to receive international praise. In keeping with this praise, Behzod Abduraimov’s Album “Debussy, Chopin, Mussorgsky“ reached the “10 Classical Albums You Must Hear This Month” on Apple Music!
Biography
Following his debut success at Carnegie Hall in 2015, recent seasons have seen Abduraimov work with leading orchestras worldwide. An award-winning recording artist, he released his first concerto disc in 2014 on Decca Classics which features Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.3 and Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No.1 with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai under Juraj Valčuha. His debut recital CD won both the Choc de Classica and the Diapason Découverte. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1990, Abduraimov began to play the piano at the age of five as a pupil of Tamara Popovich at Uspensky State Central Lyceum in Tashkent. He is an alumnus of Park University’s International Center for Music where he studied with Stanislav Ioudenitch, and now serves as the ICM’s artist-in-residence.
