The Keyboard Charitable Trust
and
The Arts Club of Washington
present
Vladimir Petrov, piano
Monday, October 13th, 2025 at 6:30 pm
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ACW Members $15 ~ Non-Members $25
Sponsored by the Keyboard Trust and
the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation.
A meet-the-artist reception will follow the musical performance.
PROGRAM
Bach/Siloti Prelude in B minor
Haydn Sonata in C major Hob. XVI:50
Chopin Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit
Scriabin Prelude and Nocturne Op. 9
Rachmaninov Moments musicaux Op. 16 Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6
About the Event:
Price includes open bar and reception with hors d'oeuvres following the performance. Bar opens at 6:30 pm. Performance at 7:00 pm.
Sponsored by the Keyboard Trust and
the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation.
About the Artist:
Vladimir Petrov has been celebrated as “one of the best pianists of his generation” (Viviana Aubele, «Martin Wullich journal»). Critics have hailed him as “an amazing, highly talented pianist” (Denis Matsuev, Madiazvod) whose playing embodies “rare musicality and inimitable spirit” (Yurii Danilin, Literary Gazette). With roots in Russia, Petrov was raised from the age of three in Mexico, which he affectionately considers his homeland.
In addition to his appearance at the Busoni competition, he has also found success at numerous other international competitions, including first-prize wins at international competitions, such as «Lotar Shevchenko» in Russia; «Ciudad de Vigo» (Spain); «Jose Jacinto Cuevas» – Yamaha (Mexico); «NTD piano competition» (New York, USA), and
«Neapolitan Masters Competition» (Italy).
His active concert career has included performances in Spain, Germany, France, South Korea, the United Stated, Holland, Russia, Italy, Hungary, Malta, Cyprus, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, Belarus, Romania, Italy, Argentina, Colombia, and Chile.His concert activity includes several appearances at the most famous concert halls, such as the «Salle Cortot» in Paris, France, «Salle Frank Martin» in Geneva, Switzerland, Carnegie Hall (Weill Hall) in New York, USA, the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, Bolshoi and
Mariinsky Theatres in Russia. Vladimir Petrov has performed with major orchestras in Europe, collaborated with many conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Lanfranco Marceletti, Tito Muñoz, Pavel Gerstein, Gleb Skvortsov, among others. Additionally, he has collaborated in concert tours with the great violinists Graf Mourzha and Kristof Barati.
He has released four solo albums, including «Encores» (2021, «Mans» label, Spain), his 2019 release including Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, was recorded in the famed Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The next album is scheduled for release in 2025, was recorded in New York.
Vladimir Petrov graduated from the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow in 2020, where he studied with Valerii Piassetsky, and Elisso Virsaladze (top-graduate student of the year award). He continued his studies at the Hochschüle für Musik F. Liszt in Germany, with Grigory Gruzman.
Currently based in New York, he is pursuing a postgraduate degree at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Horacio Gutierrez.
THE KEYBOARD CHARITABLE TRUST
for Young Professional Performers
Founded in 1991, the Keyboard Charitable Trust’s mission is to help young keyboard players reduce the element of chance in building a professional musical career. The Trust identifies the most talented young performers (aged 18-30) and assists their development by offering them opportunities to perform throughout the world. For the most gifted, this means débuts in London, New York, Mexico, Berlin, Rome and other music capitals.
In collaboration with its partners worldwide, the Keyboard Trust has developed a circuit of some fifty venues in seven principal countries, from the most prestigious concert halls to locations where classical music is rarely heard. Over the past thirty-three years, the Trust has presented over 300 young international pianists, historic keyboard players and organists (aged 18-30) in over 900 concerts worldwide.
With such notable musicians as the late Claudio Abbado, Alfred Brendel and Evgeny Kissin among its Trustees, this formula has proved its worth: many Trust artists receive an offer of a new engagement, a broadcast, a recording or management. Nearly half of the artists have subsequently made serious professional musical careers.
Recent years have seen a further expansion of the Trust’s work in Germany, Italy and Russia as well as in the USA where the distinguished conductor, the late Lorin Maazel, invited the Trust to present its artists at his Festival Theatre in Virginia.
Recent highlights include Elia Cecino winning the New Orleans International Competition in 2022 and the Valencia Iturbi International Competition in 2023; Pedro Lopez Salas winning Second Prize at the Ferrol International Piano Competition in Galicia in 2022; and George X. Fu winning BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer Award for his album ‘Mirrors’ in 2024.
The Keyboard Charitable Trust is funded entirely by voluntary donations. Detailed information about the Trust, how to become a Friend, join the One Thousand Club or to provide corporate support, may be found on our website.
