Sunday, 2/23/2025 at 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm.
San Francisco Steinway Piano Gallery (647 Mission Street) and Walnut Creek Steinway Piano Gallery (1605 Bonanza Street)
This event is open to all MTAC member and students to observe at both Bay Area STEINWAY & SONS locations for free.
We are accepting four intermediate students this year. Registration is open and on a first-come-first-served basis. Cost $100 per student.
All observers please RSVP for free through the Teacher-Event-Registration tab.
Named ‘Best Performer of Year’ by San Francisco Classical Voice, pianist and conductor Temirzhan Yerzhanov launched his career by winning the First Prize and Gold Medal at the International Robert Schumann Piano Competition in Zwickau, Germany, and went on performing in 14 countries including at New York Carnegie Hall Auditorium Stern, Berlin Konzerthaus, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Wigmore Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Dresden Sempergalerie, Paris Salle Pleyel, St. Petersburg Grand Philharmonic Hall, just to name a few notable venues.
As a conductor he performed with Kazakh Philharmonic Orchestra, Google Orchestra, Capital Philharmonia Brasilia, Kazakh National Opera, Astana Opera, Orchestra Gradus ad Parnassum, and Ópera Cultura where currently he is a Music Director. A graduate from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he studied with the legendary Professor Mikhail Voskresensky, he was a faculty member of his alma mater before immigrating to the USA.
His students won top prizes at such competitions as The Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, The Tchaikovsky in Moscow, The Vianna da Motta in Macau, The Alessandro Casagrande in Terni, The AXA in Dublin, The Lev Vlasenko in Brisbane, competitions in Porto and Epinal, the US Open Music Competition in Oakland; American Protégé Competition in New York. He has given master classes at the Western Washington University, Bellingham; Universidade de Brasília, Brazil; Yantai University, China; California State University, Sacramento; Kazakh National Conservatory, Almaty.