Arseniy Gusev
a young pianist and composer, was born in St. Petersburg in 1998 and has been studying music since the age of five. In 2015, he went to the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. In 2017, he graduated with honors from the Specialized Music School of the St. Petersburg Rimsky- Korsakov State Conservatory and afterward studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory itself. In 2018 he moved to the US. In 2022 Arseniy received his bachelor’s degree (as a pianist and composer) from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and in 2024 he received his master’s degree in composition at Yale University. Currently he is pursuing a master’s degree in piano at the Juilliard School. Among his teachers are Sergei Babayan, Keith Fitch, Chris Theofanidis, and David Lang.