Dmitry Masleev (piano),
Philipp Kopachevsky (piano)

Dmitry Masleev was born in Ulan-Ude in 1988. In 2011 graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Mikhail Petukhov), in 2014–2015 trained at the International Piano Academy Lake Como (Italy). 

Prize-winner at the International Adilia Alieva Piano Competition (Gaillard, France, 2010; 1st prize), the Roma International Piano Competition (2011; Chopin Prize), the Antonio Napolitano International Piano Competition (Salerno, Italy, 2013; 1st prize), All-Russian Music Competition (2014; 3rd prize). In 2015 he won 1st prize and the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, following which he began to collaborate with illustrious orchestras throughout the world. Recipient of the State Prize of the Republic of Buryatia (2015). Honoured Artist of the Republic of Buryatia (2015). In January 2017 he made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Frequently tours to cities in Germany and France. On several occasions he has appeared at the Gasteig in Munich and the Philharmonie de Paris; has collaborated with the Münchner Symphoniker and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Has given recitals at the Philharmonie de Paris and the Fondation Louis Vuitton, has toured with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mikko Franck to countries in Asia and has taken part in festivals in Lucerne, Montreux, Verbier, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Beauvais, Rheingau, Bad Kissingen, the Mariinsky International Piano Festival, the Stars of the White Nights festival, the Klavierfestival Ruhr and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. Has appeared at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the Wiener KammerOrchester, at London’s Cadogan Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and many other venues. 

In October 2017 Melodiya label released the pianist’s first solo album featuring works by Domenico Scarlatti, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. The disc entered the Spotify Top Classical charts and received a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. In December 2019 Melodiya released a new album (Rapid Movement) by the pianist featuring Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Alexander Tsfasman’s Suite for Piano and Orchestra and Nikolai Kapustin’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

A soloist of the Moscow State Philharmonic and a prize-winner at international competitions, the young pianist Philipp Kopachevsky had won tremendous audience admiration and acclaim by the age of twenty-three. He regularly appears in recital in Great Britain, Germany, the USA, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece, Poland and Spain as well as throughout Russia. Kopachevsky has won particular popularity in Japan, where especially for NHK TV he recorded a disc of piano music by Chopin. 

Philipp Kopachevsky was born in Moscow in 1990. He graduated from the Central School of Music of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. He is currently a student at the Moscow Conservatoire (class of Professor Sergei Dorensky). He has been a prize-winner at eight prestigious international competitions, among them the Х International Franz Schubert Piano Competition (Germany).

The musician has performed with the world’s great orchestras, among them English Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre in Moscow, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra, Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra and the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg Philharmonic. He has collaborated with such illustrious conductors as Mstislav Rostropovich, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Mikhail Pletnev, Yevgeny Kolobov, Yuri Simonov, Alexander Dmitriev, Andrew Gourlay, William Noll, Bjarte Engeset, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Yevgeny Bushkov, Maxim Vengerov, Paul Watkins, Jan Latham-Koenig, Dorian Wilson and Dmitry Liss among others. 

Philipp Kopachevsky has appeared at numerous international festivals, such as the Andrei Sakharov Festival (Nizhny Novgorod), the Vera Lotar-Shevchenko Memorial Competition (Novosibirsk), the Steinway Festival, the Miami Piano Festival, the Arts Naples World Festival (USA), the Colmar International Festival (France), the Mstislav Rostropovich Memorial Festival (Baku), the Baltic Seasons festival (Kaliningrad), Vladimir Spivakov Invites, Stars on Baikal, Crescendo and Denis Matsuev Invites among numerous others. 

Philipp Kopachevsky performed at the world premiere of choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s ballet Without at the Mariinsky Theatre. He is involved in the Moscow State Philharmonic’s project Stars of the 21st Century. Previous engagements include concerts at the Moscow Conservatoire and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and appearances with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under Jan Latham-Koenig, the State Academic Symphony Cappella of Russia under Philipp Chizhevsky and the Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra under Terje Mikkelsen.