| Pavel Berman entered the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory, studying with Igor Bezrodniy at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. At the age of seven made his public debut with the Gorky Philharmonic Orchestra and went on to develop a wide repertoire, performing through the Soviet Union, giving recitals and appearing with the State Orchestra of the USSR, the Moscow Philharmonic and other orchestras. Berman won the First Price and Gold Medal at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1990. The jury acknowledged his style as a blend of sparkling technique and refined interpretation; the audience recognized his classy personality and sincerity in music-making. The Indianapolis Awards for the best performance of Paganini Caprices and of Ysaye Sonata opened the way to his first CD, recorded a few months later with Koch International. Previously, at the age of seventeen, he had won the Second Prize at the 1987 Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy. Berman moved on to study with Dorothy DeLay, in 1992, at the Juilliard School in New York where he met Isaac Stern, an encounter that undoubtedly and profoundly marked his musical creativity. Yet, his musical maturity finds its deepest roots in his life-long work with his father, the legendary pianist Lazar Berman. Developing his international career Berman has performed with the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Miami Philharmonic, the Prague Symphony, the Liverpool Royal Philharmonic, the Beijing Philharmonic, Berliner Sinfoniker and he has reached audiences in such prestigious concert halls as the Carnegie Hall in New York, Théâtre des Champs Elysées and Salle Gaveau in Paris, Herkulessaal in Munich, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Bunkakaikan in Tokyo, La Scala Theatre, Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Parco della Musica in Rome, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, involvement in numerous music festivals. Over the last years, Berman has been devoting much attention both as a conductor of chamber orchestra and symphony orchestra and as a performer, specially with the Kaunas Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian Orchestra, la St. Georges Strings Orchestra and the ‘Moscow Virtuosi’. In May 2007 Pavel Berman has inaugurated a “David Oistrakh Festival” in great violinist’s native town of Odessa. In the next concert seasons Mr.Berman is going to appear as a soloist and/or conductor with such orchestras as Toscanini in Parma, Carlo Felice Theatre of Genova, Rai of Turin, OSI of Lugano, Lithuanian National Chamber Orchestra, “Moscow Virtuosi”, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Portuguese National Symphony Orchestra, as well as with a number of Russian and Italian orchestras. Berman plays the Antonio Stradivari violin, 1716 ‘Maréchal Berthier’, ex Napolèon belonging Pro Canale Foundation. |