• Joy of Music – Over 250 years of quality, innovation, and tradition

Vyacheslav Gryaznov

Country of origin: Russia
Birthday: January 15, 1982

About Vyacheslav Gryaznov

Vyacheslav Gryaznov graduated with honors from the Central Music School of the Moscow State Conservatory where he studied with Professor Manana Kandelaki. He proceeded with undergraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory (class of Professor Yuri Slesarev), once again completing his degree with honors. He continued at the Moscow Conservatory as a post-graduate student, and is on the teaching faculty of the Moscow Conservatory’s Piano Department.
 
Beginning in 2012, Vyacheslav was invited to teach as a visiting professor of piano at Kurashiki Sakuyo University of Science and Arts. In 2016 he accepted Yale University’s invitation to fulfill the Artist Diploma program under the Yale School of Music’s Professor Boris Berman.
 
Vyacheslav Gryaznov is a member of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, which represents him in Russia, and is an Artist-in-Residence with The Drozdoff Society in the United States.
 
Gryaznov’s 2016-2017 performances includes the Berliner Philharmonie and Carnegie Hall as winner of the 2016 New York Concert Artists Worldwide Debut Audition; the Bay Area Steinway Society of San Jose, California; four performances with the Atlantic Classical Orchestra in a multi-city Florida tour; multiple engagements for The Drozdoff Society’s Impromptu! Classical Music Recital series in New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York; as well as engagements in Russia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Austria, and France. He also recorded a CD of his transcriptions on the Steinway & Sons label.
With his own educational and charitable project Rachmaninoff and his beloved Ivanovka, Gryaznov released a CD of works by Rachmaninoff with some transcriptions of his own. The pianist's discography also includes recordings made for the Melodiya label's major project Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers, including piano pieces by Glinka and the first recording ever of Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Sonata.
 
Vyacheslav Gryaznov is the author of more than 30 concert arrangements and transcriptions. His works have been performed by Boris Berezovsky, Alexander Ghindin, Nikita Mndoyants, Tomoharu Ushida, Quartet Ebéne, the Messiaen-Quartet, the Moscow State Chamber Choir, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, and by many other musicians and collectives. They are heard in concert halls all over the world, and are chosen for prestigious international music contests like the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
 
In 2014 Gryaznov signed a publishing contract with Schott Music. Presently, Vyacheslav Gryaznov is one of the few prominent Russian composers who are published by Schott.

Products