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Rostislav Krimer was born in 1980 in Brest (Belarus). In the age of 5 he started to study piano at the Music School of his native town. After he graduated from it in 1993 he was invited to continue study at the State College by the Academy of Music in Minsk (Belarus). In the year 1997 Rostislav graduated and became a student of Prof. Jussi Siirala at the Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki (Finland). From 1999 he is a master student of Prof. Vassily Lobanov at the Hochschule f?r Musik K?ln (Germany) .
Rostislav Krimer was a finalist at the International Zvetaeva Piano Competition in Belarus in 1994, also winning the award for the Best Interpretation of a Contemporary Composition. In 1996 he won the Third Prize at the International F. Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Poland. In 1998 he was awarded a stipendium for gifted young people by the President of Belarus. In 1999 he won the First Prize at the International N. Rubinstein Piano Competition in Paris. In 2001 Rostislav became a semifinalist at the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow and was awarded a Morison Bishop Prize. In 2002 he was selected to participate at the International Tchaikovski Competition in Moscow. In 2002 Krimer was awarded ?Entdeckung des Jahres? Prize at the International Malinin Festival. In 2004 Rostislav became a laureate of the Unisa International Piano Competition in Pretoria and received there a special Prize for the best Chopin performance.
Rostislav Krimer has taken part in masterclasses given by Prof. Arie Vardi (Israel), Halina Czerny-Stefanska (Poland), Prof. John O?Conor (Ireland), Prof. Evgeny Malinin (Moscow), Dr.Tadeusz Kerner (Israel), Prof. Victor Merzhanov (Moscow), Prof. Vera Nosina (Moscow), Prof. Victor Tropp (Moscow), Prof. Michael Davidson (Netherlands).
He has performed recitals in Belarus, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Holland, Finland , Japan,. Africa, UK and USA. Among the Halls in which he has played are Beethoven Haus (Bonn, Germany) Sibelius Hall (Lahti, Finland), Mikaeli Hall (Mikkeli, Finland), Big and Chamber Halls of Musiikkikeskus (Kuopio, Finland), Big Hall of Belarusian State Philharmonic (Minsk, Belarus), Big Hall of Sibelius-Academy (Helsinki), Mirabell Schloss (Salzburg), Yamaha Centre (Paris), Saal Cortot (Paris) and others. Rostislav has played with Joensuu Simphonic Orchestra (Finland), Belarusian State Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra among others and the concert tour with Orchestra under the button of Maestro Arnold Katz is planned for the next season.
He regulary plays chamber music in Music Festivals.
"Rostislav Krimer has such a degree of musical maturity, that I must recommend
him for the next Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw..."
( Halina Czerny-Stefanska )
"...Rostislav Krimer is a musician of high professional and musical level.He
has great talents for all aspects of piano playing and, above all, a very serious,
honest and deep approach towards music, which is rarity these days. Krimer is
an outstanding and complete musician who deserves to be heard..."
( Prof. Vassily Lobanov, pianist 2001)
"I know Rostislav Krimer as a gifted pianist, who has got a big artistic temperament
and exceptional technical possibilities. His playing is distinguished by strong
personality, serious interpretation, good musical taste..."
(Prof. Victor Tretyakow, violinist Dec. 2001)
" It is my pleasure that I recommend Rostislav Krimer for the participating
in the forthcoming Tchaikovski Competition...I consider him as a young pianist
of high status...He is a fine sensitive musician with a strong poetic feelings
and a special sense for the beauty of tone."
(Prof. Arie Vardi, pianist Dec. 2001)
"I know Rostislav Krimer as a talented musician. When I heard his performance
at the XII Tchaikovski International Piano Competition in Moscow I pointed that
Rostislav is A very promising artist. His playing is distinguished by artistic
temperament, honesty, good feeling of style, exceptional virtuosity and serious
interpretation[...] I think Rostislav Krimer is a very good candidate for being
postgraduate at the Tchaikovski Conservatory in Moscow and I want to take him
in my class."
National Artist of Soviet Union (Prof. Elisso Virsaladze )
"Rostislav Krimer is a highly talented pianist-originally from Belarus, but
now resident in Germany. I have heared him play more than once and been greatly
struck by fis performing presence. He is a young man who not only has very considerable
pianistic assurance, but who has a genuine "voice". He is musicianly, but also
has considerable virtuosity..." Head of Keyboard studies at the Royal Academy
of Music in London
(Prof. Christopher Elton)
"He is on the way where can be expected artistic results of an extremely
high level. The technique of his playing is masterly, his approach is logical
and filled with natural musicality"
(Prof. Erik Tawastjerna, pianist, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki)
"Rostislav Krimer can be a pianist of highest international level"
(Eero Heinonen, pianist and lecturer, Helsinki)
"Mr. Krimer is very talented young pianist and truly feels the spirit
of Chopin music"
(Dr,. Tadeusz Kerner, pianist , head of the Chopin Society in Israel)
