Boris Giltburg is lauded across the globe as a deeply sensitive, insightful and compelling interpreter. Critics have praised his “singing line, variety of touch and broad dynamic palette capable of great surges of energy” (Washington Post) as well as his impassioned, narrative-driven approach to performance.
Giltburg regularly plays recitals in the world’s most prestigious halls, including Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Carnegie Hall, New York; Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg; Konzerthaus, Vienna; Rudolfinum, Prague; Southbank Centre and Wigmore Hall, London.
Giltburg is widely recognised as a leading interpreter of Rachmaninov. This season, Giltburg performed the complete Rachmaninov preludes during the opening weekend of the Southbank Centre’s 25/26 season and Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra at Bold Tendencies. In 2025 Giltburg released an album of Rachmaninov’s landmark Piano Sonatas nos. 1 and 2. Giltburg has also engaged in a series of in-depth explorations of other major composers such as Ravel and Chopin.
In the 2025 – 2026 season, Giltburg is appearing with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Salzburg Mozarteum, Warsaw Philharmonic, Essen Philharmonic, Basque National and Taipei Symphony orchestras. Throughout the season, he is Artist-in-Residence at the Dresdner Philharmonie and embarks on a tour to Italy. This season sees Giltburg collaborating again with leading conductors including Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Krzysztof Urbański , Dima Slobodeniouk, Dalia Stasevska, Kahchun Wong, Jun Märkl, Anja Bihlmaier. Giltburg’s long list of orchestral collaborators extends to the Czech Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Finnish Radio Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Oslo Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, NHK Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic, among others.
Giltburg is a consummate recording artist, winning the Opus Klassik Award for Best Soloist Recording for Rachmaninov concerti and Etudes Tableaux; a Diapason d’Or for Shostakovich concerti and his own arrangement of Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet. He has won a Gramophone Award for the Dvořák Piano Quintet on Supraphon with his regular collaborators, the Pavel Haas Quartet, as well as a Diapason d’Or and Choc de Classica for their joint release of the Brahms Piano Quintet.
Giltburg engages audiences beyond the concert hall through his blog “Classical Music for All” and articles in publications such as Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, The Guardian and The Times.
