Album Notes

Dmitri Shteinberg's career has taken him across North America, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Bulgaria and Israel. His solo performances include the Jerusalem Symphony, The Italian Philarmonica Marchetiana, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Israel Camerata Orchestra and Porto National Symphony, among others. Mr. Shteinberg was the featured artist in the Sarasota and Summit Music Festivals, the National Arts Centre Young Artists Program in Ottawa, Israeli "Music in Galilee" Radio Chamber Music Festival, "Rolandseck" and "Oleg Kagan" Festivals in Germany and the Russian "Palaces of St. Petersburg." His recent appearances also include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Weill Recital Hall and the Jerusalem Music Centre.

He has made numerous recordings for the Israeli "Voice of Music" radio station as well as for WHMT and WQXR in USA; as a member of "Kineret" Piano Trio he was selected from more than 500 ensembles to participate in Isaac Stern's workshop in Carnegie Hall. Most recently, he collaborated with New York Philharmonic members, the cellist Natalia Gutman and the violinist Ani Kavafian. Mr. Shteinberg keeps over 70 major chamber works in his repertoire; he is also active as a performer of new music, including world premieres and commissioned works.

Dmitri Shteinberg is a long-time recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarships and a major prizewinner in nine Israeli competitions, including the Young Artist Competition in Jerusalem and the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music annual competitions and two performance prizes in the Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes in Israel. His international awards include the first prize in "Citta de Senigallia" International Competition in Italy, prizes in Porto International Competition and First Tbilisi Piano Competition in Georgia. In the United States, Mr. Shteinberg won the Naomi Foundation Competition and the Artists International Debut Award. He was also awarded prizes in the Olga Koussevitsky Competition and the Haddonfield Symphony Solo Competition and received the Salon De Virtuosi Fellowship Grant. His chamber music performances at the Manhattan School of Music brought him the Helen Cohn Award in 2001.

A native of Moscow, Dmitri Shteinberg began his piano lessons at the age of five. A year later he was accepted to the Gnessin Special School of Music, where he studied under Ms. Anna Kantor, the teacher of Eugeny Kissin. After immigrating to Israel, Mr. Shteinberg continued his piano studies with Prof. Victor Derevianko as a student at the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music and later at the Manhattan School of Music in New York under Mme. Nina Svetlanova. Mr. Shteinberg's first American CD was issued in 2000. In 2002 Dmitri Shteinberg received a US permanent resident status as an "exceptional ability" artist.

Reviews:
Frankfurter Rundschau: "Astonishing, nearly orchestral variety of sound"
Salt Lake City Tribune: "Solid talent, and full of musical verve"
Ottawa Citizen: "Uncommonly rich and introspective"
Ma'ariv, Israel: "This name must be memorized as that of a rare talent"