Interview with renowned pianist Boris Giltburg｜Taiwan News

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Internationally renowned pianist Boris Giltburg recently traveled to Taiwan for a performance. FTV reporter Stephany Yang caught up with him to discuss his musical journey and future aspirations.

Playing Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102, and Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35. This is Giltburg, an award-winning pianist from Israel. Shostakovich is one of Giltburg’s favorite composers, and his recordings of these concertos have won international acclaim.

Boris Giltburg
Pianist
The two concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich, one of my absolute favorite composers. Both concertos are pieces I’ve been playing since I was a kid, so I have a strong connection with both works. Both by the same composers but they are extremely different. They are 25 years apart, so they are very different parts of his life. Their musical language is quite different, so they are a very good combination.

Boris Giltburg comes from a long line of pianists, with his mother, grandmother, and even great-great-grandmother devoted to the instrument. By 7 he was already giving concerts, and at 8 he began working professionally. His career took off after winning the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2013.

Boris Giltburg
Pianist
We always had a piano at home, and at the age of five, I asked my mom to teach me. And she said, "No." Because she said later that we had too many pianists in the family, and she thought that it is a challenging life and that I should be doing something else but I was really stubborn because the piano was there and I really wanted to play like the type of irrational way of a kid. You just want something. After a few weeks of pestering my mom, she finally gave in, and she started giving me lessons.

Today, Giltburg devotes himself to large-scale repertoire projects, and for the next two years he is immersing himself in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Boris Giltburg
Pianist
Now, for the next two years, I am exploring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Exploring, the main thing is the scores themselves, the musical scores, because it is like a snapshot of their creative dreams which they wrote down for us like a map. We follow in their footsteps, but the score is not yet the music, the score is just the instructions. You need to bring the music back to life. If I can find their letters that I really like because you hear their own voices more than in biographies. Slowly, a kind of character portrait emerges. Through the music, through thinking, and through reading, you start having a sense of who they were as a person, and they become your companions.

Beyond the concert hall, he aims to use his social media platforms and blog to share thoughtful insights into composers and bring his passion for storytelling to audiences around the world.

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