Behzod Abduraimov

Behzod Abduraimov’s performances combine an immense depth of musicality with phenomenal technique and breathtaking delicacy. He performs with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, and his critically acclaimed recordings have set a new standard for the piano repertoire.

Some of the orchestras with which Abduraimov will perform in the 2024–25 season include the Bamberger Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Sinfonieorchester Basel, and Berner Symphonieorchester. In North America, he appears with the Atlanta Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and Vancouver Symphony. Elsewhere, he performs with the Singapore Symphony and Tokyo Philharmonic. Conductors with whom he will collaborate this season include Anja Bihl­maier, Lionel Bringuier, Stéphane Denève, Gustavo Gimeno, Hans Graf, Jakub Hruša, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Aziz Shokhakimov and Otto Tausk.

In August 2024, Abduraimov marked the 10th anniversary of his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. Later this week, he will appear in recital at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Some of the leading orchestras with which Abduraimov has performed in recent seasons include the Chicago Symphony Orches­tra, Cleveland Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, and Wiener Symphoniker. He has collaborated with many renowned conductors including Sem­yon Bychkov, Gianandrea Noseda, Vasily Petrenko, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, and Juraj Valčuha.

Abduraimov regularly appears at Carnegie Hall, twice in 2024, and performs recitals in the major halls of cultural capitals, including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokyo. International festivals where he regularly appears include Aspen, La Roque Antheron, Lucerne, Ravello, Rheingau, and Verbier.

Shadows of My Ancestors, Abduraimov’s second recording for Alpha Classics, which features works by Ravel, Prokofiev, and Uzbek composer Dilorom Saidaminova, was released in January 2024. It was recognized as a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and named one of Apple Music’s “10 Classical Albums You Must Hear This Month.” The year 2021 saw the successful release of his first album for Alpha Classics featuring Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. In 2020, two albums were nominated for Opus Klassik awards: Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paga­nini with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, recorded on the com­poser’s piano, and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1990, Abduraimov began piano lessons at age five as a pupil of Tamara Popovich at the Uspensky State Central Lyceum in Tashkent. In 2009, he won first prize at the London International Piano Competition. He is Artist-in-Residence at the International Center for Music at Park University, where he studied with Stanislav Ioudenitch.