Arsenii Mun

“Arsenii Mun communicated a sincere and unique sense of the poetry in the music” – © Dallas Magazine. A Yamaha Artist since 2019, Arsenii Mun started playing piano at 6 with Professor Elena Zyabreva. From 2010 to 2019, he studied at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory with Professor Alexander Sandler, and he currently studies with Professor Sergei Babayan at The Juilliard School. He has won many major competitions, including First Prize at the International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz; “Yamaha Music Competition” Russia; Third Prize at e-Piano Junior Competition, USA; Second Prize at Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival, USA; First Prize at “International Competition for Young Pianists Arthur Rubinstein, Poland; First Prize at Concours international de piano Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, France, and participated in the XVI international Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Arsenii is also a laureate of Maestro Temirkanov’s Prize; participant of the Rostropovich Foundation (where he was given a special “Sviatoslav Richter Award”); participant of “Saint Petersburg Music House” concert programs; Larisa Gergieva Festival; Musical Olympus Festival and Mariinsky International Piano Festival. He made his concerto debut in 2009 in the Grand Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra. Since then, he has performed with many orchestras such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, and North Symphony Orchestra, with conductors such as Mei-Ann Chen, Fabio Mastrangelo, Zaurbek Gugkaev, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Alexander Titov, Alexander Skulsky, Dmitry Liss, Mark Russell Smith, Ian Hobson and others. Arsenii made his solo recital debut in 2012 at the Mozarthaus in Vienna. In summer of 2016 and 2017 he took part in Verbier Festival Academy, winning the special “Tabor” prize for the best pianist in the Academy. In November 2018, Arsenii had recitals in Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Brussels and Paris, as well as receiving the Audience Award from the Animato Festival in Paris and playing LIVE on Radio France.