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Lando will be part of a program that additionally features two 
other Young Artist Award winners on stage with the Kalamazoo 
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Julian Kuerti. He will join 
Misha Galant, the other 2020 awardee, for Poulenc’s Concerto for 
Two Pianos, and both will be joined by Wei Luo, a 2018 winner, 
for Bach’s Concerto for Three Pianos.
“I’ve been wanting to do the Poulenc piece, and it was a great 
surprise to get that offer,
” Lando said. “It’s a bundle of fun with 
three pianists, and I love the whimsical, almost sarcastic, charac-
ter [of the piece]. 
“Poulenc is such an interesting composer. A lot of times, he 
gets categorized as composing salon music. There is so much 
personality and so much wit and charm that goes on and so 
much darkness and edginess at the same time. It’s so much fun 
to explore the different personality twists of Poulenc.
”
Lando was introduced to instrumental music at an early age 
by his instrumentalist parents, performers and co-directors 
of the Great Neck Music Conservatory on Long Island. His 
mother, Pippa Borisy, is a pianist, and his dad, Vadim Lando, is 
a clarinetist who regularly appears with the Jupiter Symphony 
Chamber Players.
“They’re the best people and, in my opinion, the best role 
models,
” the Gilmore awardee said. “She was my teacher steadily 
[along with others] and has helped me learn music and dive into 
it.
”
Like his parents, Lando has traveled extensively to showcase 
his talents as a soloist and beyond. This year’s bookings have 
placed him with violinist Abigel Kralik in California, violin-
ist Daniel Hope in Germany, the Danish String Quartet in 
Denmark and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
Earlier in his teens, Lando enjoyed exploring religious con-
nections through the people and landmarks in Israel when he 
performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Haifa and 
Tel Aviv. 
The Gilmore honoree had been invited by pianist and conduc-
tor Arie Vardi after the two met in a Beijing program. Vardi was 
conducting, and they presented Bach concertos.
“My parents went with me to Israel, and we had a lot of fun,
” 
Lando said. “My dad got to see a relative he hadn’t seen for a 
number of years.
” 
Lando said he enjoys celebrating Jewish holidays and defined 
his bar mitzvah as unconventional. A great uncle, who is a rabbi 
in Florida, officiated at his parents’ music school.
“I did a prayer, and the rest was all musical,
” he said. “We did 
Hebrew songs and folk music.
”
Instrument versatility, as Lando defines it, has drawn him to 
the piano.
“One of the main things that attracts me to the piano is how 
much you can do on it,
” he said. “You can mimic a lot of the 
other sounds that you hear. You can get a very orchestral sound. 
You can get a virtuosic sound. There’s so much repertoire. 
There are so many sounds and types of pieces. It never becomes 
boring, and you never get stuck. There’s always something to 
explore.
”
And exploring new sounds has come into Lando’s life as 
this classical pianist has begun songwriting along the lines of 
rock, professing that he also “loves the sounds of guitars.” 

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