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Phone: 239-597-1900
Konstantin Soukhovetski is a pianist, composer, and educator recognized for his distinctive concert programming and multimedia performances. A laureate of 17 international competitions, he has appeared at major venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, and The Louvre, performing in recital and with orchestras throughout the United States and Europe. Recent highlights include a tour of Scotland with Absolute Classics and appearances at PianoFête in Vashon, Washington.
As Director of Education and Community Engagement at Grand Piano Series, Konstantin curates the series’ Narrative Musicales—multimedia programs that combine live music, storytelling, and visual elements—and oversees Grand Piano Series’s educational and outreach initiatives with schools and seniors in Lee and Collier counties.
Beyond the piano, his work includes composition, libretti, and interdisciplinary collaborations in dance and film. His recording, Yuliya: Forgotten Songs of Julie Weissberg Rimsky-Korsakov, with soprano Sarah Moulton-Faux, was released on Azica Records. He is a voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMY) and serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School. Born in Moscow to a family of prominent artists, he studied piano and composition at the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory. Konstantin has been a resident of Naples, FL, since 2024.
Program
Expect the unexpected.
In this Narrative Musicale, Konstantin Soukhovetski traces Beethoven’s surprising influence on the American musical imagination — from Scott Joplin’s ragtime to the birth of boogie-woogie. How does a rhythm, a gesture or a harmonic cadence travel across the Atlantic and reappear a century later in an entirely new world? You’ll find out.
Improvisation abounds as this multimedia performance reveals hidden musical connections across time, geography and culture. American music emerges as a quintessential expression of the New World — vibrant, multicultural, rebellious and original — while the Old World reveals itself as an unexpected laboratory for musical disruption.
Joplin — Maple Leaf Rag
Joplin — The Cascades
Clarence “Pine Top” Smith — Boogie Woogie
Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111