PAVEL BERMAN

Winner of the Indianapolis Competition, Pavel Berman appears regularly in Italy and abroad as soloist and/or conductor with orchestras such as the Virtuosi Italiani, the Moscow Virtuosi, the Haydn of Trento and Bolzano, the Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan, the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Sinfonica Toscanini of Parma, the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice, at the Bellini in Catania, the Carlo Felice in Genoa, the RAI in Turin, Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Orchestra of the Teatro Sao Carlo in Lisbon, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Romanian National Radio, Wurtembergische Philharmonie, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Berliner Sinfoniker, and others. He has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Prague Symphony, Liverpool Royal Philharmonic, Beijing Philharmonic, and has given concerts in the world’s most prestigious halls such as Carnegie Hall, Théâtre des Champs Elysées and Salle Gaveau in Paris, Herkulessaal in Munich, Bunkakaikan in Tokyo, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels.

He founded the Kaunas Chamber Orchestra that became Kaunas Symphony Orchestra in Lithuania and participates in the Oistrach Festival in Odessa.

He is often engaged in various tours in Japan and took part in the Rachmaninoff project presented at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and the Festival Settimane Musicali di Stresa.

His latest recordings include CDs for Dynamic dedicated to Prokof’ev: the Sonatas and two Concertos with the Orchestra of the Italian Swiss Radio and the DVD of Paganini’s 24 Caprices. This year also sees the release of his recordings of the Respighi and Šostakovič Sonatas for Orchid Classics. Pavel Berman teaches at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano and plays the Antonio Stradivari ‘Conte De Fontana’ violin, Cremona 1702.