Anthony Ratinov
Country – United States
Age—24
Anthony Ratinov began playing piano at the age of four under the teaching of his grandmother, Edit Ratinova, who taught at the renowned Gnessin Music School in Moscow, Russia for 45 years. Most recently, Anthony received the first prize at the Canada International Artists Piano Competition (2021), and the Pianists’ Award (first prize), sponsored by Bösendorfer, at the International Summer Academy in Austria (2021 and 2019). He was a semi-finalist at the Concert Artists Guild Competition (2021) and captured the third prize at the Virtuoso & Belcanto piano competition in Italy (2017), as well as the Charles S. Miller Prize, awarded to a gifted pianist at the Yale School of Music who has done outstanding work during the first year of study.
In addition to many fundraising concerts in the New England area, Anthony has performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the ORF RadioKulturhaus performance hall in Vienna, as well as at other venues across Italy, the Netherlands, and Austria.
Anthony is currently a master’s student at the Yale School of Music studying with Boris Berman. Anthony studied previously at Yale University, where he majored in chemical engineering and graduated with honors, in addition to studying piano with Wei-Yi Yang.
Anthony has performed in the master classes of such notable teachers and performers as Boris Slutsky, Mikhail Voskresensky, Roberto Prosseda, Julian Martin, Douglas Humpherys, Marian Hahn, Ian Jones, Yejin Gil, and Gottlieb Wallisch.
Repertoire
Round I
Debussy Étude No. 5 Pour les octaves, L. 136
Haydn Sonata No. 47 in B minor, Hob. XVI/32
Scriabin Sonata No. 5, Op. 53
Round II
Beethoven Variations and Fugue in E-flat major (“Eroica Variations”), Op. 35
Rachmaninoff Études Tableaux No. 9 in D major, Op. 39
Round III
Bach English Suite No. 2 in A minor, BWV 807
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
Round IV
Prokofiev Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26