Behzod Abduraimov
About this Artist
Behzod Abduraimov’s performances combine an immense depth of musicality with phenomenal technique and delicacy. He performs with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, and his critically acclaimed recordings have set a new standard for the piano repertoire.
Abduraimov has a number of notable debuts in the 2025/26 season, including with the New York Philharmonic and National Symphony Orchestra (Washington), both with Gianandrea Noseda. Other concerto performances include the Houston and Pittsburgh symphonies as well as the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Frankfurt Opern und Museumsorchester, and Hong Kong Philharmonic.
The pianist has performed with leading orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Czech Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, San Francisco Symphony, and Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor collaborations include Semyon Bychkov, Constantinos Carydis, Gustavo Dudamel, Edward Gardner, Gustavo Gimeno, Jakub Hrůša, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Vasily Petrenko, Aziz Shokhakimov, Juraj Valčuha, and Long Yu.
Abduraimov’s critically acclaimed recordings have won numerous international awards, including the Choc de Classica and Diapason Découverte. He records for Alpha Classics. Shadows of My Ancestors, his second recital recording for Alpha Classics, was released in January 2024 and features works by Ravel, Prokofiev, and Uzbek composer Dilorom Saidaminova. It was recognized as a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, short-listed for a Gramophone Award, and named one of Apple Music’s “10 Classical Albums You Must Hear This Month” in February 2024. His first recital album for Alpha Classics, released in 2021, includes Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 1990, Behzod Abduraimov began playing the piano at age 5 as a pupil of Tamara Popovich at Uspensky State Central Lyceum in Tashkent. In 2009, he won first prize at the London International Piano Competition with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. He is Artist in Residence at the International Center for Music at Park University in Missouri, where he studied with Stanislav Ioudenitch.