These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut for Boris Giltburg.

The Moscow-born Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg has been praised for his “singing line, variety of touch and broad dynamic palette capable of great surges of energy” (The Washington Post).

To celebrate Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary in 2023, Giltburg continued his cycle of recordings of the composer’s solo works and released the last disc in his Rachmaninoff concerto cycle. To coincide with this, his plans have included Rachmaninoff concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Dresden Philharmonic, and the complete cycle with the Brussels Philharmonic.

In recent years Giltburg has also engaged in a series of in-depth explorations of other major composers. Over the past two seasons he has explored the complete works of Maurice Ravel, finishing with the violin sonatas in October 2023 with Alina Ibragimova. He played the Ravel concertos with the Orchestre National de France/Macelaru, Brussels Philharmonic, and Residentie Orkest.

To celebrate the Beethoven anniversary in 2020, he embarked upon a project to record and film all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas across the year, blogging about the process as it unfolded. He also recorded the complete concertos with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and appeared in the BBC TV series Being Beethoven.

Giltburg has worked with orchestras across the world including the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, and NHK Symphony Orchestra. Awards for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Giltburg’s blog Classical Music for All is aimed at a non-specialist audience, which he complements with articles in publications such as Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, The Guardian, and The Times of London.