Artem Belogurov

Born in Riga, Latvia, and raised in Odessa, Ukraine, Artem Belogurov later settled in the United States, where he has gained recognition in the historical keyboard field. His performances encompass an array of instruments and draw from a repertory that covers four centuries.

At age 18 he relocated to Boston for training at the New England Conservatory of Music under Gabriel Chodos, Patricia Zander, and Victor Rosenbaum. His growing fascination with period keyboard instruments then led him to the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he worked on clavichord and fortepiano with Richard Egarr and Menno van Delft and earned an honors diploma in 2016. In addition to the harpsichord, he commands a broad selection of historic pianos from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Success at several competitions—the International Competition for Early Music in Yamanashi, Japan; the Geelvinck Fortepiano Concours in Amsterdam; and the Brothers Graun Award in Bad Liebenwerda, Germany—propelled Belogurov onto the international stage, although he has remained anchored in the Boston region.

His first commercial recording appeared in 2015 on the Piano Classics label: the album American Romantics: The Boston Scene, performed on an 1873 Chickering instrument. As a soloist and chamber musician he has appeared at Lincoln Center in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, and the Universität der Künste in Berlin, and he has joined the early-music ensemble Concerto Köln for American tours. Contemporary repertoire also figures in his activities; in 2009 he introduced Elliott Carter’s Caténaires to Boston audiences.

Cellist Maya Fridman ranks among his regular partners, and together they have documented an arrangement of Prokofiev’s opera Fiery Angel. Another close associate is violinist Aleksey Semenenko, a fellow Odessa native, with whom Belogurov issued the BIS album Crossroads in 2021, a collection of American violin-and-piano sonatas.