Yury Shadrin, Piano

Biography

The Russian-born pianist Yury Shadrin has made a dramatic entry into the international concert world. As a soloist with orchestras, as well as in solo recitals, he is widely known through South America, Asia, and the United States as a formidable young talent.  Of his 2012 performance of the Brahms B-flat Piano Concerto with the Peabody Orchestra, the Baltimore Sun wrote, "A wide range of nuances kept the music sounding fresh and spontaneous as the pianist effectively limned the concerto's drama, poetry and, ultimately, charm."

A year earlier, Mr. Shadrin received a standing ovation from his Miami audience with the second Piano Concerto of Sergei Rachmaninoff, in a performance with the Miami Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eduardo Marturet. The South Florida Classical Review noted the "superb technique that allowed him to blaze through this difficult work" and praised his "energy and bravura."

Yuri Shadrin has soloed in major piano concertos with orchestras around the world, including the Orchestra Sinfonica of Venezuela, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the Salta (Argentina) Symphony Orchestra, the Caracas Municipal Symphony, and the Vietnam National Philharmonic Orchestra. In the United States, he has played concertos with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Oberlin Orchestra, as well as with Peabody and Miami. He has given solo recitals in major venues from Geneva to Caracas, including appearances at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. Of the latter, the New York Sun wrote that he was ”mature…beyond his years.”

Mr. Shadrin has gained numerous honors in piano competitions around the world, including first prizes at the Rome International Piano Competition and grand prize at the Siberian Piano Competition (both at the age of 14). In more recent years, he took top honors at the Arthur Dann Piano Competition, the Maracaibo International Piano Competition, and the Yale Gordon Competition. In 2010, he was semi-finalist in the very distinguished Chopin Competition in Warsaw.

Born in the city of Perm, Yury Shadrin debuted at the age of 9 as a soloist with the Perm Opera Orchestra, after only one year of study. Following study at the Special School for Gifted Children in Novosibirsk, he enrolled at the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with world-renowned pianists Lev Naumov and Eliso Virsaladze. 

Moving to the United States to continue his training, Mr. Shadrin studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Monique Duphil, at Yale with Peter Frankl, and most recently at the Peabody Institute with the great American master Leon Fleisher. In 2013, he taught as Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.