Romanticists of the New World

Born in 1982 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, Vyacheslav Gryaznov has received his primary musical education at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory’s Central School of Music (1991-2001). In 2006 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory with honors and currently studying a post-graduate course there. He also joined a teaching faculty of the Conservatory recently where has a position of assistant professor at the Piano Department.

Vyacheslav Gryaznov has been granted scholarships from a number of prestigious international charitable funds by Vladimir Spivakov, Youri Bashmet, Mstislav Rostropovich and has been also awarded the prizes of numerous international competitions. These include the First Prizes at Rubinstein Competition in Moscow (1997) and Rachmaninov Competition in Italy (1998), got the Grand Prix of the “XXI Century Art and Performance” Competition in Denmark in 2001, and in 2003 has been honored with the Audience Prize in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Vyacheslav Gryaznov performs regularly all over Russia and has a busy international career both as a soloist and appearing in programmes with symphonic orchestras in Italy, Denmark, Great Britain, Croatia, Sweden, Norway and Holland, African and Baltic countries, and in Japan. His concert video recordings which were made in NHK studio are broadcasted frequently by the Japanese TV channels.

The pianist is also active in making piano concert arrangements two books of which were published in 2005 and 2007 and included arrangements of symphonic and operatic pieces by Glinka, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Bizet for two pianos and four-hand piano duet.

Starting from 2008/2009 concert season Vyacheslav Gryaznov belongs to the Moscow Philharmonic Society Artists Management which represents him exclusively in Russia.