Interview with renowned pianist Boris Giltburg
Interview with renowned pianist Boris Giltburg
2025-12-30
Internationally renowned pianist Boris Giltburg recently traveled to Taiwan for a performance. FTV reporter Stephany Yang caught up with him to discuss his musical journey and future aspirations.
Playing Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102, and Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35. This is Giltburg, an award-winning pianist from Israel. Shostakovich is one of Giltburg’s favorite composers, and his recordings of these concertos have won international acclaim.
Boris Giltburg
Pianist
The two concertos by Dmitri Shostakovich, one of my absolute favorite composers. Both concertos are pieces I’ve been playing since I was a kid, so I have a strong connection with both works. Both by the same composers but they are extremely different. They are 25 years apart, so they are very different parts of his life. Their musical language is quite different, so they are a very good combination.
Boris Giltburg comes from a long line of pianists, with his mother, grandmother, and even great-great-grandmother devoted to the instrument. By 7 he was already giving concerts, and at 8 he began working professionally. His career took off after winning the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2013.
Boris Giltburg
Pianist
We always had a piano at home, and at the age of five, I asked my mom to teach me. And she said, "No." Because she said later that we had too many pianists in the family, and she thought that it is a challenging life and that I should be doing something else but I was really stubborn because the piano was there and I really wanted to play like the type of irrational way of a kid. You just want something. After a few weeks of pestering my mom, she finally gave in, and she started giving me lessons.
Today, Giltburg devotes himself to large-scale repertoire projects, and for the next two years he is immersing himself in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Boris Giltburg
Pianist
Now, for the next two years, I am exploring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Exploring, the main thing is the scores themselves, the musical scores, because it is like a snapshot of their creative dreams which they wrote down for us like a map. We follow in their footsteps, but the score is not yet the music, the score is just the instructions. You need to bring the music back to life. If I can find their letters that I really like because you hear their own voices more than in biographies. Slowly, a kind of character portrait emerges. Through the music, through thinking, and through reading, you start having a sense of who they were as a person, and they become your companions.
Beyond the concert hall, he aims to use his social media platforms and blog to share thoughtful insights into composers and bring his passion for storytelling to audiences around the world.
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國際知名鋼琴家 吉爾特伯格專訪
2025-12-30
國際知名鋼琴家吉爾特伯格近日赴台灣演出。一起來聽聽他的專訪!
來自以色列的鋼琴家吉爾特伯格，演奏蕭斯塔科維契F大調《第二號鋼琴協奏曲》，及C小調《第一號鋼琴協奏曲》。蕭斯塔科維契是吉爾特伯格最愛的作曲家之一，他演奏的這兩首協奏曲的錄音也贏得了國際讚譽。
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"這是我最喜歡的作曲家之一，蕭斯塔科維契的兩首協奏曲。這兩首協奏曲我從小就開始演奏，因此我對它們有著很深的感情。雖然出自同一位作曲家之手，但風格卻截然不同。它們相隔25年，代表了他人生中截然不同的階段。它們的音樂語言也不太一樣，因此堪稱絕配"
吉爾特伯格家的母親、祖母甚至曾祖母都是鋼琴家。他7歲就開始舉辦音樂會，8歲便正式成為職業鋼琴家。2013年贏得伊莉莎白皇后國際大賽後，他的事業開始起飛。
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"家裡一直都有一架鋼琴，五歲時候，我求媽媽教我彈，她拒絕了我，她說，我們家彈鋼琴的人太多了，她覺得這條路太辛苦了，我應該學點別的。但我當時特別固執，因為鋼琴就在那裡，我就是想學，就像小孩子那種不理智的渴望，你就是想要東西，我纏著媽媽好幾個星期，她終於答應了，開始教我彈琴。"
如今，吉爾特伯格致力於大型曲目項目，未來兩年他將全心投入約翰•塞巴斯蒂安•巴哈的音樂研究。
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"接下來的兩年，我將探索約翰•塞巴斯蒂安•巴哈的音樂。探索的重點在於樂譜本身，因為樂譜就像是他們創作夢想的快照，被他們像地圖一樣記錄下來。我們跟隨他們的足跡，但樂譜並非音樂本身，樂譜只是指示，我們需要賦予音樂生命。如果我能找到他們真正喜歡的信件，那就太好了，因為在信中你能聽到他們自己的聲音，而不是在傳記中。慢慢地，一幅人物肖像便會浮現出來。透過音樂、思考和閱讀，你會開始感受到他們作為人的本質，他們也成為了你的夥伴"
除了音樂廳的演出之外，他還致力於利用社群平台和部落格，分享他對作曲家的見解，並將他對音樂故事的熱情傳遞給世界各地的聽眾。
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