June 07, 2007 • Page Image 36
…Arts & Entertainment About via Kirill Gerstein Piano Prodigy Jewish pianist Kiri11 Gerstein was born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia, where he attended one of the country's special music schools for gifted children. He won his first competition — the International Bach Competition in Gorzuw, Poland —at the age of 11. He subsequently won a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston and, at the age of 14, moved to Massachusetts w...…

















































