A pupil of famous Russian pianist Dmitri Bashkirov, Eldar Nebolsin started his international career after his triumph at the 11th Santander International Piano Competition in 1992 where, besides the Grand Prix he won the Prize for the Best Performance of Mozart Concerto. In 2005 Eldar Nebolsin was awarded the Sviatoslav Richter Prize in the 1st International Piano Competition in Moscow and again won the special award for the best Mozart Concerto performance.
Eldar Nebolsin has played with the most famous orchestras around the world, including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra, Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestra of Spanish Radio and Television, Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, San Petersburg Philarmonic Orchestra and Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra, with outstanding conductors such as Ricardo Chailly, Yuri Temirkanov, Leonard Slatkin, Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yakov Kreizberg, Vasili Petrenko, Vladimir Spivakov, Lawrence Foster, Mstislav Rostropovoch, Bernhard Klee, and many others.
In addition to his solo piano career, Eldar Nebolsin is active as a chamber musician. He has performed with outstanding artists such as Julian Rachlin, Alexey Ougrinchouk, Katrin Scholz and Gustav Rivinius. Forthcoming chamber music events include collaborations with Leipziger Streichquartett, Maxym Rysanov and several concerts with his regular piano trio, together with Denis Goldfeld and Wolfgang Emmanuel Schmidt.
Eldar Nebolsin has recorded two albums for DECCA, a solo CD including works by Chopin and Liszt and Chopin Piano Concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Since 2006 he has recorded for Naxos. His debut Naxos album (Rachmaninov Preludes Op. 23 and 32, Naxos 8.570327) gathered excellent reviews from all main musical magazines. His recording of the Liszt Piano Concertos and Totentanz with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vasily Petrenko was released in November 2008 (Naxos 8.570517).
Among Eldar Nebolsins future recording projects for Naxos are Chopin’s complete works for piano and orchestra with the Warsaw National Orchestra and Antoni Wit, a solo album with works by Schubert and Ernst von Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Theme with Buffalo Philarmonic Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Faletta.
His recent and future engagements include performances of Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in St Petersburg with Yuri Temirkanov, later to be conducted by Nikolai Alexeev, Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto in Odense, Halle and Tenerife, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 27 in Madrid with Helmut Rilling, Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Real Filharmonía de Galicia, a tour in Spain with the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville and Pedro Halffter performing Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto, a solo recital in the Great Philharmonic Hall in St Petersburg, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto (piano version) at the Berlin Konzerthaus and in Leipzig with the MDR Symphony Orchestra under Jun Märkl, and re-invitations to Darmstadt, Mannheim, Husum and Liverpool performing Rachmaninov’s Fourth Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko. Following his successful debut with Gelders Orkest and Nikolaj Alexeev in 2008, Eldar Nebolsin ha been invited to be the Artist-in-Residence in Music Sacrum in Arnhem during the 2009–10 season,.
Besides his busy Schedule, he gives chamber music lessons at the International Institute of Chamber Music in Madrid together with Ralf Gothoni, Menahem Pressler and Bruno Canino.
For further information please visit his website www.eldarnebolsin.com.
See Eldar Nebolsin’s Naxos interview.
