Serhiy Salov
About
Born in Donesk, Ukraine and living in Montreal since 2009, Serhiy Salov gave his first public concert, the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Ukrainian National Orchestra, at the age of 11. In addition to his Montréal triumph in 2004, he also won First Prize in the Dudley (2000) and Épinal (2004) International Piano Competitions and Second Prize at the Gina Bachauer Competition (2010) and the Cincinnati World Piano Competition (2012). In May 2014, Salov won the Richard Lupien Improvisation Prize, awarded for the first time by the Concours musical international de Montréal.
With recital programmes that extend from Johann Sebastian Bach through the Classical, Romantic and early Modernist composers to György Ligeti, the pianist recently also dedi cates himself to contemporary pieces. His concerto repertoire ranges from the great works of the 19th and 20th centuries to lesser-known Soviet composers. Mr. Salov has played with major orchestras namely the Berlin Symphony, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Radio France, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tokyo Symphony, with conductors including Martyn Brabbins, Lawrence Foster, Jacques Lacombe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Leonard Slatkin.