Performer Biography

Arseniy Gusev

Arseniy Gusev, a young pianist and composer, was born in St. Petersburg in 1998 and has been studying music since the age of five. In 2017 he graduated with honors from the Specialized Music School of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory (studied piano with O.A. Kurnavina and composition with E.A. Rushansky); in 2015 he studied at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute as a pianist (Boaz Sharon’s studio). In 2017-2018 he studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Professor A.M. Sandler as a pianist and with S.V. Nesterova as a composer. Since 2018 he has been a student at the Cleveland Institute of Music (class of Sergei Babayan, piano, and Keith Fitch, composition.

He actively performs in Russia and abroad, has given solo concerts in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Slovakia, USA and Germany. His compositions are performed in St. Petersburg as well as in other cities in the prestigious venues, such as Mariinsky Theatre and Carnegie Hall. He participated in the master classes of Garrick Ohlsson, Dmitry Bashkirov, Grigory Gruzman, Jerome Rose, Alexander Mndoyants, Nina Lelchuk, and others.

Arseniy is a laureate of many international and all-Russian competitions, such as the Dorothy McKenzie Artist Award, Three Arts Piano competition, “Another Space” Composition Competition, International Youth Gavrilin Competition, the International Youth Competition “Performer-Composer”, and the All-Russian Open Andrei Petrov Composition Competition.

Arseniy was recently awarded Second Prize from Piano Cleveland’s Virtu(al)oso Global Piano Competition for Artist Relief.