Masterclass Series | Professor Andrei Pisarev's Piano Masterclass Successfully Concluded

Rooted in the Russian piano tradition, building bridges across borders. On June 14, a piano masterclass by Professor Andrei Pisarev was successfully held at the Concert Hall of the Alumni Hall on the University Town Campus of Chongqing Normal University. Music lovers from on and off campus gathered at the venue, immersing themselves in the profound heritage and artistic power of top-tier Russian piano pedagogy.

Professor Andrei Pisarev, an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, stands as a benchmark figure in the Russian piano lineage. A laureate of major international piano competitions, including the Rachmaninoff and Mozart competitions, he enjoys worldwide renown for his profound artistry. His teaching has taken him across many countries, and his students have repeatedly claimed top honors at international competitions—making him an authoritative representative of Russian piano pedagogy.

In the classroom, drawing on the orthodox Russian piano teaching system and a repertoire of timeless classics—Mendelssohn's Variations sérieuses Op. 54, Ravel's Jeux d'eau, Rachmaninoff's Études-tableaux Op. 39 Nos. 1 and 9, and Chopin's Scherzo No. 2 Op. 31—Professor Pisarev worked with the assembled music lovers through each piece, refining their interpretation passage by passage. From the inner essence of the Romantic repertoire to the delicate control of touch, dynamics, and tonal nuance; from the balanced architecture of multiple voices to the layered unfolding of emotional rhythm across a work—the professor, backed by deep artistic accumulation, offered precise guidance and thoroughly unpacked the creative core of each work and the essentials of its performance, leading the teachers and students present toward the essence of the orthodox Russian performance tradition. The mellow, elegant resonance of the classical piano suffused the Mountain City.

This cross-border artistic exchange broke through geographical and artistic barriers: it offered the music lovers present a close-up study of world-class performance pedagogy and a source of professional artistic nourishment, while further cementing the bridge of mutual appreciation and shared growth between Chinese and Russian piano art. The masterclass's arrival in the Mountain City was at once a vivid practice of our Conservatory's deep cultivation of Russian piano teaching and its professional aesthetic education, and a living testament to how refined classical art can take root locally and empower music-based aesthetic education.