Canadian/ Israeli Pianist, Michael Berkovsky, made his New York debut at Avery Fisher Hall and has toured as a soloist in Ireland, Costa Rica, Japan, Italy, Israel, Canada and the United States. He has won numerous awards, including the 2007 Yale Gordon Competition, Liszt-Garrison, Baltimore music club, Russian Music Competition, IBLA Grand Prize, Jacob Flier International Competition, and has performed under the baton of Vladimir Feltsman, Stefan Sanderling and Leon Fleisher. Mr. Berkovsky is an active chamber musician and has collaborated with the Jupiter Chamber Orchestra, singers from the Toronto Opera company and with chamber musicians from Juilliard, Peabody and Glenn Gould schools. He's a member of the Juilliard Piano Duo with pianist LangNing Liu. He has participated in Master Classes with Leon Fleisher, Emanuel Ax, Joseph Kalichstein, Murray Perahia, Ilya Itin, Byron Janis, John O’conor and Mikhail Voskresensky. He has also played in the Banff, New Paltz, Toronto, and Pianofest, Music Festivals. In 2007 Mr. Berkovsky was awarded a grant from the Canadian Arts Council. He was also a recipient of the America Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarships, Zfonot Tarbut, and with the recommendation of Maestro Valery Gergiev he was the recipient of The White Nights Foundation Scholarships. Michael was born in the former Soviet Union and immigrated to Israel in 1990. He has studied with Nataly Litvinova and was mentored by Alexander Slobodyanik. In 2001, his family moved to Toronto, Canada. He received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School where he studied under Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin. In 2011 he completed his Doctoral degree at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, studying in the studio of
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