Arseny Gusev, a young pianist and composer, was born in St. Petersburg in 1998 and has been studying music since the age of five. Gusev’s playing has been described as “as a blend of superb technical proficiency and lyrical romanticism seldom found in equal measure, especially in one so young” (Newburyport Current).
In 2017-2018 he studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with A.M. Sandler as a pianist and with S.V. Nesterova as a composer. He has been studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music since 2018, where he works with Sergei Babayan (piano) and Keith Fitch (composition).
Gusev actively performs in Russia and abroad, having given solo concerts in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Slovakia, USA, and Germany. He has participated in masterclasses with Garrick Ohlsson, Samuel Adler, Andrew Norman, Dmitry Bashkirov, Grigory Gruzman, Jerome Rose, Alexander Mndoyants, Nina Lelchuk, and others.
Gusev is a laureate of many International and all-Russian competitions, such as the Dorothy McKenzie Artist Award, Three Arts Piano Competition, Cleveland Composers Guild Contest, “Another Space” Composition Competition, International Youth Gavrilin Competition, the International Youth Competition “Performer-Composer,” and the All-Russian Open Andrei Petrov Composition Competition.
You can hear Gusev’s First Round performance during Session 3 on Saturday, August 1.