Kirill Monorosi
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Dr. Kirill Monorosi studied piano performance at the Moscow Conservatorium and the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, Germany. 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 Churchill Fellowship (2014).
Kirill has given recitals with solo, chamber music, song works and has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Europe, Australia, Latin America and Asia. In 2009, he performed a solo recital on Liszt’s piano at the Liszt Museum in Weimar. His recording include J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier book 1, a live recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations Op. 120, and his arrangements of J. S. Bach’s Trio Sonatas for clarinet/soprano saxophone and piano, recorded together with Mark Walton. He has also made world premiere recordings of works by César Cui and Nikolai Medtner. Together with his chamber music partners he has undertaken performances of Bach’s chamber and concerto 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”. Other performances included appearances at the Kaohsiung International Piano Festival, and the Arts Festival in Taitung (Taiwan).
As a musicologist, Kirill has discovered previously unpublished and uncatalogued works by a member of the ‘Mighty Handful’ César Cui, and has since edited these works for publication in five volumes.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 over 20 publications, which include the first published piano reductions of three Mozart Piano Concertos K. 107, piano reductions of Six Keyboard Concertos Op. 1 by J. C. Bach, first publications of César Cui’s Variations-Preludes Op.104, 15 Miniatures Op. 105, Petite Sonatine Op. 106, and Nikolai Medtner’s 6 Preludes.
As a composer, Kirill has over 50 published piano works, including 24 Etudes Op. 1, the Little Piano Book Op. 2 – a collection of works for children, as well as more extensive works such as his La Folia Variations Op. 7.
Kirill maintains a busy schedule, which includes teaching at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Rising Stars program, as well as performing, recording, lecturing and giving masterclasses internationally. He compiles and presents professional development materials and lectures for piano teachers. He is a Diploma examiner for the AMEB and has been invited to be on the jury of competitions, including the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition in Brisbane and the International Piano Competition J. S. Bach, Würzburg/Saarbrücken, Germany, of which he has been artistic director and co-chair of the jury from 2017.
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.