Pianist Dmitry Yefimov was born in 1965 in Leningrad and began his music studies at the age of five. He graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatoire in 1990 having studied under Professor Yegorov, and completed his post-graduate course in 1992.
In 1991 he was awarded the diploma for “Best Accompanist” at the All-Union Vocal Competition in Alma-Ata, and he became a prize-winner at the Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Parma, Italy, in 1992.
In 1992 he was invited to join the St Petersburg Conservatoire as a tutor in the piano faculty, and since 2003 he has been a senior lecturer in piano solo and accompaniment.
Dmitry Yefimov has given concerts both as a soloist and as an accompanist in Russia, Germany, Italy and the USA. In 1994 Dmitry Yefimov recorded two CDs of Beethoven Piano Sonatas and one CD of Franz Liszt piano pieces for the Audiophile Classics series.
Since 1995 he has been the accompanist of Olga Borodina, accompanying her at recitals in opera houses including La Scala (Milan), the Liceu (Barcelona), the Hamburg Opera, La Monnaie (Brussels), the Grand Thйвtre de Gйnиve and the Thйвtre des Champs Йlysйes as well as at prestigious concert venues such as Carnegie Hall (annually), Alice Tully Hall and Metropolitan Museum of Arts (all New York), Spivey Hall (Atlanta), Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Hall (London), the Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), the Salzburg Festival, the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and concert halls in Vienna, Madrid, Paris, Lille, Lyons and Rome.
Dmitry Yefimov has a wide-ranging repertoire that includes works by Balakirev, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Shostakovich