Mr. Gliadkovsky's performances have been met with great enthusiasm by both audiences and music critics. Josef Woodard, a critic at the Los Angeles Times, wrote: "...the intensity and a nicely honed musicality left the audience stunned...enthralling...all in all, a gripping and masterful performance". Dany Margolies at The Malibu Times describes his playing: "wondrous range...impassioned depth...enormous physical and emotional power...a complete artist".
Kirill Gliadkovsky was born in Moscow and has studied music since the age of 5. Mr. Gliadkovsky attended the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow - the most prestigious music institution in Russia - where his teachers included renowned musicians Lev Vlasenko, Mikhail Pletniev (piano) and Leonid Royzman (organ). Mr. Gliadkovsky also earned both his Master's and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the University of Southern California with Professors Daniel Pollack (piano), Cherry Rhodes (organ), and William Schaefer (conducting). Kirill Gliadkovsky took numerous prizes at international piano competitions including Citta di Marsala (Italy, 1990), Joanna Hodges (California, 1991) and San Antonio Keyboard Competition (Texas, 1994). He was a winner at American Guild of Organists Young Artists Competition in Santa Monica (1993).
Since making his first public appearance at the age of 6, Mr. Gliadkovsky has performed piano and organ recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in various cities in Russia, including Moscow's prestigious Bolshoi, Maliy and Rachmaninoff Halls, St.-Petersburg Philharmonic's Glinka Hall, as well as in Italy, U.K., Poland, Mongolia, Canada, Japan and throughout the United States. The venues included Philharmonic Hall in Poznan, Poland, Purcell Hall in London, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, CA, Centers for the Arts in Scottsdale and Chandler AZ, National Gallery of Art and Catholic University in Washington, DC, 1st Congregational Church in Los Angeles, and many others. He has performed at various music events, such as the Aspen, Ventura, Santa Barbara and Redlands Bowl festivals and worked with well-known conductors Pierre Boulez, Mehli Mehta, Alexander Treger, Frank Fetta and Steve Kerstein. Mr. Gliadkovsky's popularity is also fast growing because of numerous live TV and radio broadcasts of his concerts on such networks as Russian State TV and Radio, CBS, PBS, NPR, WQXR, KBYU and KPAC. Among his recent recordings are two CDs for Alexei Records and four CDs for CMK Classics labels.
Mr. Gliadkovsky is an orchestra and choral conductor, as well. He composes for piano and organ and has premiered his works in Russia and in the USA. He also performs in a duo piano team with his wife Anna Gliadkovskaya and his sister, Ekaterina. Currently, Mr. Gliadkovsky combines his busy concert schedule with teaching at the University of Southern California and Santa Monica College, where he is on the piano faculty. In addition, he isthe music director and organist at Westwood Hills Christian Church in Westwood.