Career
He began studying piano at the age of five, giving his Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics debut performance with an orchestra just two years later. This was followed by more awards at international music competitions in Lithuania, Poland and Russia. Vadim Chaimovich is a graduate with honors from a few conservatoires of music
International master classes with such remarkable artists as Claude Frank, Rudolf Kehrer, Gary Graffman and Eugen Indjic contributed significantly to his education.
Vadim Chaimovich received prizes at many international piano competitions, including the Schubert Competition in Dortmund (Germany), the Schlern Music Competition (Italy), the William Kapell International Piano Competition in Maryland (United States of America) and the 29th Masterplayers International Music Competition in Lugano (Switzerland). He was awarded scholarships and awards by such European foundations as the Da-Ponte Foundation (Darmstadt), the Ottilie Selbach Redslob Foundation and Gotthard Schierse Foundation (Berlin), the Open Lithuanian Foundation, Alfred & Ilse Stammer-Mayer Foundation (Switzerland) et cetera
In 2003, Vadim Chaimovich’s outstanding artistry was distinguished with the Promotion Prize of the Dresden Art and Culture Foundation. He has given numerous concerts in Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States of America, among others at the Kulturpalast and the Semperoper (Dresden), the Paderewski Hall (Lausanne), the Theatre du Vevey, the Cortot Hall (Paris), the Grand Opera House (Cairo), the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (College Park/United States of America), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, the Sendai City Cultural Center (Japan) as well as at such international music festivals as the Meranofest (Italy), the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), the Schlern International Music Festival (Italy), the Styraburg Fest (Austria), the Dresden Music Festival, the Kassel Music Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany).
He collaborated successfully with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Sinfonietta Dresden, the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra, the North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Filarmonica di Bacau and the Chamber Orchestra of Central Germany.
2008: "Haydn & Mozart", piano sonatas by Haydn and Mozart (Sheva Collection)
2010: Piano works by Chopin, Mendelssohn and Rachmaninow (Sheva Collection)
2013: "Kontraste", piano works by Galuppi, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann and Medtner (Sheva Collection).
