The Gilmore Rising Stars Series presents outstanding young pianists from around the world to provide Kalamazoo audiences with a taste of tomorrow’s stars of the classical music world. Presented annually since 2000, previous artists have included Lang Lang, Jonathan Biss and Yevgeny Sudbin before they made their international breakthroughs.
Hear why New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini says that today’s young pianists are something of a phenomenon — playing with a technical proficiency that seems to be growing exponentially.
2012-2013 Rising Stars will be announced in June.
2011-2012 Rising Stars Series
Ran Jia (China)
September 11, 2011
Michael Brown (USA)
October 23, 2011
Ivan Moshchuk (USA)
November 6, 2011
Behzod Abduraimov (Uzbekistan)
December 11, 2011
Download a list of the previous Rising Stars artists (127K PDF)