The 2019 Innovation Award Winner from the Music Academy of The West, Konstantin Soukhovetski, is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator with a thriving international career. Newly appointed Director of Education and Community Engagement at Grand Piano Series in Naples, FL, Konstantin is also a Director of Pedagogy and Narrative Musicianship at Bronx School For Music, adjunct faculty at his alma mater, The Juilliard School, and Artist-in-Residency at Pianofest In The Hamptons. Recently, Konstantin guest-lectured at Curtis Institute of Music, Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, Singapore’s Academy of Music, and Jelgavas Mūsikas Vidusskolas (Latvia). Konstantin often serves on the jury of international piano competitions, currently on the 2024 Cleveland International Piano Competition selection jury.

This season, Konstantin’s performances have taken him on the Absolute Classics tour of the UK, the Batura Festival in St. Sebastian and Canary Islands (Spain), PianoFête Festival in Vashon, WA, Odyssiad Festival in Fort Collins, CO, International Composers Symposium in Del Mar, CA, and ProtoStar’s Innovative Series in La Jolla, CA, to name a few. Konstantin’s recent orchestra appearances include Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra and Pegasus: The Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

As a composer, Konstantin’s The Pride Suite for piano is seeing its world premiers this season, and GCTYO Philharmonic Orchestra will premiere his first symphony.

As a librettist, Konstantin collaborates with composer Polina Nazaykinskaya. Their first opera, Her New Home, premiered in 2023 at Garth Newel Music Center, and their second commission for Mississippi Opera will premiere in the 2025/26 season.

Konstantin is a recipient of over 16 awards from leading international piano competitions and the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans. Born in Moscow to a family of artists, he studied at the Moscow Central Special Music School, where he double-majored in piano and composition.