Artem Kuznetsov seated at a piano in a red concert hall

Concert Pianist Shigeru Kawai Artist

Artem
Kuznetsov

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Artist introduction

Biography

Concert pianist Artem Kuznetsov has forged a distinctive international career. Following his performance at Barcelona's Palau de la Música Catalana, Bachtrack praised his “superbly balanced blend of brilliance and expressive depth,” describing an interpretation distinguished by lyricism, transparency, and iridescent color.

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Across other performances, Interlude described him as “Charismatic with Wow Factor,” David Dow Bentley III of The People's Critic wrote that his “exacting precision … seemed to totally captivate the cheering audience,” and Randy Anderson of Texas Public Radio praised his touch: “Such a beautiful touch. It was like chocolate—it was so rich.”

Artem Kuznetsov is a Shigeru Kawai Artist.

Artem Kuznetsov standing with his hands over his heart before the orchestra at Palau de la Música Catalana
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Among more than fifty prizes and distinctions at international piano competitions, Kuznetsov has received First Prize at the 2024 Blanca Uribe International Piano Competition in Colombia and First Prize at the 2023 Santa Cecilia Piano Competition in Portugal. At the 2024 Roma International Piano Competition, he won First Prize and received special prizes for his interpretations of Beethoven and Medtner, as well as the Orchestra Prize.

Recent seasons have taken Kuznetsov to Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, the Auditori Enric Granados in Lleida and the Teatre Municipal de Girona in Spain, and the Salón Alberto Castilla in Ibagué, Colombia. In Ibagué, he performed both Liszt piano concertos. He has also made festival debuts at the Festival de Música de Morelia in Mexico and the Cartagena Music Festival in Colombia, alongside an extensive recital tour across Italy and other European countries.

Kuznetsov has performed with the Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Orquesta Internacional Virtuosos de Madrid, Orchestra Filarmonica Mihail Jora di Bacau, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès, and Royal Prince Consort Orchestra. He has collaborated with conductors including Conrad van Alphen, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Ovidiu Balan, Benedetto Montebello, Lawrence Golan, Osvaldo Ferreira, and Sergey Smbatyan.

Kuznetsov has appeared at festivals and concert series around the world, including the Yokohama International Piano Concert Series in Japan, Festival Sant Pere de Rodes in Spain, the XXVIII International Rachmaninoff Music Festival in Russia, the International Rachmaninov Music Festival in Colombia, and the Orcas Chamber Music Festival in the United States. In 2024, he was selected as a Gilmore Festival Fellow. That same year in Ibagué, he performed a new work by Colombian composer Amparo Ángel, an interpretation she later described as her favorite.

Deeply committed to music education and arts entrepreneurship, Kuznetsov is the Founder and Director of Kuznetsov Piano Lab, an educational initiative that brings the artistic traditions of the Golden Age of pianism together with modern pedagogy and emerging technologies to create highly individualized musical development.

His students have earned numerous awards at international piano competitions and have performed at distinguished venues including Carnegie Hall, Casa da Música in Porto, and the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.

Kuznetsov is also a co-founder of the Austin Keyboard Arts Foundation. In recognition of his contributions to the arts in Texas, State Senator Brandon Creighton presented him with a Texas flag that had flown over the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Texas Independence Day. San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg later appointed him an Emissary of the Muses for the city. His international distinctions include the Medal of the Senate of the Italian Republic and the Club for UNESCO of Rome Prize.

Kuznetsov has been featured by media outlets in the United States and internationally, including Texas Public Radio, Classical KING FM in Seattle, TG4 News in Italy, Medici TV, and Euronews in Dubai. His early musical achievements were also profiled in the 2004 book Gifted Children of Russia.

Kuznetsov’s discography includes a debut album on Orpheus Classical and two subsequent releases on KNS Classical. His 2024 KNS Classical album, sponsored by the Curso de Música Silva Monteiro in Portugal, features premiere recordings of miniatures by Portuguese composer Victor Macedo Pinto. A forthcoming KNS Classical album will be devoted entirely to Rachmaninoff.

At fourteen, a transformative visit to Sergei Rachmaninoff's Museum-Estate in Ivanovka left a lasting impression, shaping his artistic identity and forging a deep, lifelong connection to the composer's legacy.

From that early encounter with Rachmaninoff's world in Ivanovka, Kuznetsov's path grew out of the Russian musical tradition in which he spent his formative years and eventually carried him to the United States, where he pursued six major stages of formal musical study on scholarship, culminating in the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. The meeting of those Russian foundations with the influences of the American musical landscape became central to his artistic identity. Writing of Kuznetsov, Christopher Axworthy recognized “a pianist from the great Russian school who could play with weight and passion”—an artistic character complemented by what Leon Fleisher described as “noble and very sensitive musicianship.”

His principal teachers include his mother, Anna Kuznetsova; Ludmila Grimak; Alexander Ryckel; Stanislav Ioudenitch at the International Center for Music at Park University; Dr. Jon Kimura Parker at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music; and Anton Nel at The University of Texas at Austin's Butler School of Music, where Kuznetsov also served as a Teaching Assistant in Piano.

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Performances & albums

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Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23

Artem Kuznetsov, piano. Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa; Osvaldo Ferreira, conductor. Casa da Música, Porto.

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Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2

Artem Kuznetsov, piano.

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Chamber music

Chopin - Polonaise brillante in C major, Op. 3

Artem Kuznetsov, piano. With Desmond Hoebig, cello; Duncan Recital Hall, Rice University.

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Mozart - Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478

Artem Kuznetsov, piano. With Quartetto Indaco.

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Discography

Albums

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Performance repertoire

Repertoire

Solo piano, concertos and chamber music.

Artem Kuznetsov performing with orchestra
Solo piano
Akhunov, Sergey
  • Sketch No. 3
  • Sketch No. 1
Ángel, Amparo
  • Nocturno, Op. 42
Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • Invention No. 1 in C major, BWV 772
  • Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775
  • Invention No. 8 in F major, BWV 779
  • Invention No. 13 in A minor, BWV 784
  • Sinfonia No. 8 in F major, BWV 794
  • Sinfonia No. 12 in A major, BWV 798
  • Sinfonia No. 15 in B minor, BWV 801
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I — Prelude and Fugue in C major
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I — Prelude and Fugue in C minor
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I — Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I — Prelude and Fugue in D major
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I — Prelude and Fugue in D minor
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I — Prelude and Fugue in E minor
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I — Prelude and Fugue in F minor
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I — Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II — Prelude and Fugue in C minor
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II — Prelude and Fugue in D-sharp minor
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II — Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp minor
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II — Prelude and Fugue in G major
  • Suite in E minor, BWV 996 — Praludium and Presto
  • Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (arr. Ferruccio Busoni)
  • Sheep May Safely Graze (arr. Egon Petri)
  • Prelude in B minor (arr. Alexander Siloti)
Beethoven, Ludwig van
  • Six Variations in G major on the aria “Nel cor più non mi sento” from Paisiello
  • Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1
  • Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3
  • Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (“Pathétique”)
  • Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14, No. 1
  • Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (“Moonlight”)
  • Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 (“The Tempest”)
  • Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49, No. 2
  • Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (“Appassionata”)
  • Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major, Op. 81a (“Les Adieux”)
Berkovich, Isak
  • Toccata
Brahms, Johannes
  • Intermezzos, Op. 117
  • Rhapsodie in B minor, Op. 79
Cage, John
  • 4′33″
Chopin, Frédéric
  • Étude No. 1, Op. 25
  • Étude No. 2, Op. 25
  • Étude No. 3, Op. 25
  • Étude No. 4, Op. 25
  • Étude No. 5, Op. 25
  • Étude No. 6, Op. 25
  • Étude No. 7, Op. 25
  • Étude No. 8, Op. 25
  • Étude No. 9, Op. 25
  • Étude No. 10, Op. 25
  • Étude No. 11, Op. 25
  • Étude No. 12, Op. 25
  • Polonaise No. 1, Op. 26
  • Polonaise No. 2, Op. 26
  • Prelude No. 1, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 2, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 3, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 4, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 5, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 6, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 7, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 8, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 9, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 10, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 11, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 12, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 13, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 14, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 15, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 16, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 17, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 18, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 19, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 20, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 21, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 22, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 23, Op. 28
  • Prelude No. 24, Op. 28
  • Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44
  • Nocturne No. 1, Op. 27
  • Nocturne No. 2, Op. 27
  • Nocturne No. 1 in B major, Op. 32
  • Nocturne No. 1, Op. 62
  • Nocturne No. 2, Op. 62
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
  • Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
  • Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
  • Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31
  • Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60
  • Mazurka No. 1, Op. 63
  • Mazurka No. 2, Op. 63
  • Mazurka No. 3, Op. 63
  • Étude No. 1, Op. 10
  • Étude No. 3, Op. 10
  • Étude No. 7, Op. 10
  • Étude No. 8, Op. 10
  • Étude No. 9, Op. 10
  • Étude No. 12, Op. 10
  • Waltz No. 1, Op. 34
  • Waltz No. 2, Op. 34
  • Waltz No. 3, Op. 34
Corea, Chick
  • Afterthought (Part 2 of Imaginings)
  • Children’s Songs, Nos. 1–20
Debussy, Claude
  • Images, Book I
  • Suite bergamasque
  • Préludes, Book II — La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
Dett, Robert Nathaniel
  • In the Bottoms — IV
  • In the Bottoms — V
Glass, Philip
  • Étude No. 2
  • Étude No. 20
Granados, Enrique
  • Escenas románticas
Haydn, Joseph
  • Piano Sonata in G minor, Hob. XVI:44
  • Piano Sonata in D major, Hob. XVI:42
Khachaturian, Aram
  • Toccata
Kuznetsov, Vladimir
  • Prelude
Liebermann, Lowell
  • Gargoyles, Op. 29
Liszt, Franz
  • Études after Paganini, S. 141 — La campanella
  • Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, S. 244
  • Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12, S. 244
  • Valse-impromptu, S. 213
Massenet, Jules
  • Elegy, Op. 10, No. 5
Medtner, Nikolai
  • Sonata-reminiscenza, Op. 38
  • Forgotten Melodies I, Op. 38 — No. 3
  • Forgotten Melodies I, Op. 38 — No. 8
Mendelssohn, Felix
  • Songs Without Words, Op. 30 — No. 1
Mompou, Frederic
  • Canción No. 6
Moszkowski, Moritz
  • Étude No. 6 (“Étincelles”), Op. 36
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Piano Sonata in F major, K. 332
  • 12 Variations on “Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman”, K. 265 (300e)
Pinto, Victor Macedo
  • Quatro instantâneos, No. 1
  • Quatro instantâneos, No. 2
  • Quatro instantâneos, No. 3
  • Quatro instantâneos, No. 4
  • Espanholada
Ponce, Manuel María
  • Pavana
  • Intermezzo
Prokofiev, Sergei
  • Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
  • Prelude No. 2, Op. 23
  • Prelude No. 4, Op. 23
  • Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28
  • Étude-tableau No. 5, Op. 33
  • Étude-tableau No. 8, Op. 33
  • Étude-tableau No. 9, Op. 39
  • Oriental Sketch
  • Fragments
  • Prelude in D minor
  • Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 — Élégie
  • Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 — Prélude
  • Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 — Mélodie
  • Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 — Polichinelle
  • Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 — Sérénade
Ravel, Maurice
  • Le tombeau de Couperin — Toccata
Saint-Saëns, Camille
  • Danse macabre, Op. 40 (arr. Franz Liszt and Vladimir Horowitz)
Schubert, Franz
  • Piano Sonata in E-flat major, D. 568
  • Klavierstücke, D. 946 — No. 1
  • Klavierstücke, D. 946 — No. 2
  • Klavierstücke, D. 946 — No. 3
  • Gretchen am Spinnrade, S. 558/8 (arr. Franz Liszt)
Schumann, Robert
  • Papillons, Op. 2
Scriabin, Alexander
  • Op. 2, No. 1
  • Étude No. 9, Op. 8
  • Étude No. 12, Op. 8
  • Prelude No. 2, Op. 11
  • Prelude No. 4, Op. 11
  • Prelude No. 5, Op. 11
  • Prelude No. 14, Op. 11
Shchedrin, Rodion
  • Basso Ostinato
Stravinsky, Igor
  • Trois mouvements de Petrouchka
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
  • Album for the Young, Op. 39 — No. 1
  • Album for the Young, Op. 39 — No. 3
  • Album for the Young, Op. 39 — No. 5
  • Album for the Young, Op. 39 — No. 6
  • Album for the Young, Op. 39 — No. 7
  • Album for the Young, Op. 39 — No. 8
  • Album for the Young, Op. 39 — No. 10
  • Album for the Young, Op. 39 — No. 13
  • Album for the Young, Op. 39 — No. 14
  • Album for the Young, Op. 39 — No. 16
  • Album for the Young, Op. 39 — No. 18
  • Nutcracker Suite (arr. Mikhail Pletnev)
Vella, Joseph
  • Sonatina, Op. 30
Concertos
Beethoven, Ludwig van
  • Piano Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 73 (“Emperor”)
  • Choral Fantasy for Piano, Orchestra, and Choir, Op. 80
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19
Chopin, Frédéric
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Kuznetsov, Vladimir
  • A Piece for Piano and Orchestra
Liszt, Franz
  • Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Piano Concerto No. 2
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
  • Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503
  • Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
  • Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Shor, Alexey
  • Travel Notebook, Suite No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra
  • From My Bookshelf, Suite No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Chamber music
Akhunov, Sergey
  • Phantasie in Memory of Franz Schubert
Beethoven, Ludwig van
  • Piano Trio No. 1 in D major, Op. 70
  • Scottish Songs, Op. 108 — selections
Berlioz, Hector
  • Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9 (piano four hands)
Brahms, Johannes
  • Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 38
  • Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
  • Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101
Debussy, Claude
  • Piano Trio in G major
Dvořák, Antonín
  • Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81
  • Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 87
Fauré, Gabriel
  • Dolly Suite, Op. 56 (piano four hands)
Hahn, Reynaldo
  • Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor
Honegger, Arthur
  • Pacific 231 (two pianos)
Lavista, Mario
  • Secular Danza for Cello and Piano
Mahler, Gustav
  • Piano Quartet in A minor
Mendelssohn, Felix
  • Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49
Milhaud, Darius
  • Scaramouche Suite, Op. 165b (two pianos) — Braziliera
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Piano Trio No. 3, K. 502
  • Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478
Nobre, Marlos
  • Illuminata for Cello and Piano
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
  • Suite No. 1 in G minor, Op. 5 (two pianos)
  • Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor
  • Suite No. 2 (two pianos)
Ravel, Maurice
  • La valse (two pianos)
Saint-Saëns, Camille
  • The Carnival of the Animals
Schnittke, Alfred
  • Gogol Suite (two pianos)
Schubert, Franz
  • Rondo in A major, D. 951 (piano four hands)
Schumann, Clara
  • Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17
Schumann, Robert
  • Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44
  • Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47
  • Adagio and Allegro for Cello and Piano, Op. 70
Shostakovich, Dmitri
  • Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 40
Strauss, Richard
  • Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6

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