Kirill Monorosi
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Dr. Kirill Monorosi undertook studies at the Moscow Conservatorium and the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, Germany, where he received a Diplom and Aufbau A degrees in piano performance. He then completed his PhD in musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He was a finalist and Diploma prize-winner of the 2009 J. S. Bach International Piano Competition in Würzburg, and has been awarded numerous awards internationally, including the prestigious Churchill Fellowship (2014).
Kirill has given recitals with solo, chamber music, song works and has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Europe and Russia, Australia, Latin America and Asia. His repertoire ranges from the English virginalists to works produced in collaboration with contemporary composers. In 2009, he performed a solo recital on Liszt’s piano at the Liszt Museum in Weimar. His recording of J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier book 1 (2016) has been one of the best-selling interpretations of the cycle. He also recently released a live recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations Op. 120. Over the last four years, together with his chamber music partners he has undertaken numerous performances of Bach’s chamber works, including the double and triple concertos. Two concerts at the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg Russia) as part of consecutive Conservatoire Week Festivals (2017 and 2018) were lauded by critics, with the 2017 “Bach doubles” concert being called “one of the highlights of the Festival”. Recent performances include appearances at the Kaohsiung International Piano Festival, and the Arts Festival in Taitung (Taiwan).
As a musicologist, Kirill has discovered numerous previously unpublished and uncatalogued works by a member of the ‘Mighty Handful’ César Cui, and has since edited these works for publication in five volumes. He currently has 15 publications, including the first published piano reductions of three Mozart Piano Concertos K. 107, piano reductions of Six Keyboard Concertos Op. 1 by J. C. Bach as well as first publications of César Cui’s Variations-Preludes Op.104, 15 Miniatures Op. 105 and Petite Sonatine Op. 106.
Kirill maintains a busy schedule, which includes teaching at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Rising Stars program, as well as performing, recording, lecturing and giving masterclasses in Australia, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Russia. He compiles and presents professional development materials and lectures for piano teachers. He is an AMEB examiner and has been invited to be on the jury of numerous Eisteddfods and competitions, including the St. George and the Sydney Eisteddfods. In 2017 was appointed the co-artistic director and co-chair of the jury of the International Piano Competition J. S. Bach, Würzburg, Germany.
A number of Kirill’s students have won full music scholarships at leading schools in Sydney, and have achieved success in local, national and international competitions, performing in venues such Carnegie Hall (New York), the Mozarteum (Salzburg), and the Sydney Opera House.