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American pianist Maxim Lando has been described by Berkshire Fine Arts as having an “ever so clear approach to the keyboard, and the molding and shaping of phrases straight from the musical angels.” Maxim’s concerts and collaborations have brought him to the international stage, with invitations to perform spanning from across the globe.
In 2017 at the age of fourteen, Maxim performed Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra in Saint Petersburg. The concert was featured and received rave commentary on the popular Russian TV Kultura program Tzar’s Box. Maxim also had the great honor to perform at Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala Concert together with Lang Lang, Chick Corea, and the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin in an unprecedented three-pianist rendition of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. ZealNYC described the concert as “A ‘Rhapsody’ for the ages,” noting “the three highly individual artists achieved an astounding musical synergy.”
Performing as a duo with celebrity pianist Lang Lang, Maxim made additional critically acclaimed debuts this past season with Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Hawaii Symphony, and China NCPA Orchestra. Other recent performance highlights include a concert with Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Fedoseyev, debut concerts with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborations with violinists Julian Rachlin and Daniel Hope on the Stars and Rising Stars series in Munich, and a performance for the historic Grand Opening of Steinway and Sons in Beijing. Maxim has also performed with the Russian National Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazakh State Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as numerous other orchestras throughout the United States and Europe. In the 2019-20 season, he looks forward to a return performance with Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, as well as new collaborations with Saint Petersburg Philharmonic and Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
Maxim has just recently won First Prize at the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. With this award he joins the roster of Young Concert Artists, and will also be presented in major New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston recital debuts next season. Other awards include Gold Medal at the 2017 Berliner International Music Competition, Audience Prize at the 2016 Musical Olympus Foundation Festival at Zankel Hall, and Gold Prize at the 2015 International Television Contest “Nutcracker” for Young Musicians in Moscow, Russia.
Maxim’s recent solo and chamber music concerts include notable venues and festivals such as the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing, Kissinger Sommer in Germany, Ravinia Festival in Chicago, Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, Dinard International Music Festival in France, Samos Young Artist Festival in Greece, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players in New York, and Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Chicago’s Millennium Park. A frequent guest artist in Russia, Maxim has performed at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Bolshoi Theater, VDNH Green Theater, Moscow International House of Music, Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall, and the Moscow State Gallery of A. Shilov.
Dedicated to making classical music accessible to his own generation, Maxim has been featured performing and talking about music on CNN’s Best of Quest, NPR’s From The Top, BR Klassik’s On Stage, Russian TV-Kultura, BBC Radio 4, WQXR, CNC News, as well as television talk shows in Italy, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Israel. He has filled in for Lang Lang, and performed a concert on one-day’s-notice with violinist Alissa Margulis at Music Fest Perugia in Italy (filling in for pianist Ilana Vered). A huge fan of Sing For Hope’s mission, Maxim was honored to serve as a last minute replacement for superstar Lea Salonga at the 2017 Sing For Hope Gala.
Maxim is an Artemisia Akademie Fellow at Yale University, an alumnus of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, and a student of Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone at Juilliard Pre-College.
He is extremely grateful for the scholarships and tutelage he has received from the Aspen Music Festival, Oxford Piano Festival, Music Fest Perugia, masterclass workshops of Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Musical Olympus Foundation, Lang Lang International Music Foundation, and Juilliard Pre-College.