*Hosted by Dr. Lloyd Axworthy

Four Pianos:  Alexander & Daniel Tselyakov, Michael & Kyung Kim

Kyung and Michael Kim have been piano faculty members at Brandon University ’s School of Music since 2008, where Kyung is currently Adjunct Professor of Piano, and Michael is the School of Music’s current Dean of Music.

Alexander Tselyakov has been professor of piano at Brandon University since 2003. During the mid-1980s, Alexander managed teaching at two Russian music institutes in addition to winning awards such as the Tokyo International Piano Competition (1983) and at the famed International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1986). He was also appointed concert piano soloist to the Byelorussian State Philharmonic Orchestra.

Daniel Tselyakov has won many scholarships, trophies and awards, including the Phyllis and Dorothy Hotlby Scholarship, the Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg Scholarship Competition, and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra Young Player Award.
He currently studies with his father, Alexander Tselyakov, at Brandon University. Daniel also participated in master classes with Pierre Reach, Michael Kim, Marc André Hamelin, Kyoko Hashimoto, André Laplante and Jamie Parker. By the age of 14, he had performed Chopin Piano Concerto No.2 as a soloist with the Penderecki String Quartet and a world première performance of Canadian composer Jim Hiscott’s ‘Amador’. At 17 years, Daniel became the youngest musician ever to be invited to the Virtuosi stage in the 2008-2009 season.

Conductor Michelle Mourre has most recently been the recipient of the 2009 Heinz Unger National Conducting Award, as well as the Jean-Marie Baudet Award in Orchestral Conducting presented by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Virtuosi Concerts most electrifying musical spectacle in 20 years!