Yury Rozum

Yury Rozum is a Russian-born world-renowned international concert pianist and philanthropist, the recipient of numerous international awards and a very influential figure in the music world.

When Rozum was just aged seven, his mother discovered that he had perfect pitch, leading to his immediate enrolment in the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory, where he would later study under Lev Naumov and Yevgeny Malinin, themselves students of Heinrich Neuhaus.

Rozum developed an interest in philosophy by age fourteen, becoming especially interested in the works of the exiled Nikolai Berdyayev. From there, Rozum became extremely spiritual, leading life as an ascetic and, at the risk of his own freedom, immersing himself in the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

In 2001, Yury Rozum was awarded the title People’s Artist of Russia by Russian president Vladimir Putin. Polls taken by Russian media place Rozum within the country’s list of “Top Ten Classical Musicians in Russia.”

In 2003, Rozum became the first pianist to perform a recital in the Main Hall of the Russian Federation Government House.

Rozum founded the ‘Yury Rozum International Charitable Foundation’ in April 2005, as a means of providing scholarships to promising young musicians as well as the promotion of major annual music festivals.

In 2004, the Children’s School of Arts in the Shchelkovo Municipal District of the Moscow Region was named after the People’s Artist of Russia Yury Rozum. Since 2011, Yuri Rozum has been an honorary professor at the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts and an honorary academician of the International Academy of Arts.