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Rem Urasin is one of the brightest Russian pianists of his generation, laureate of many international competitions, among them: International Chopin competition in Warsaw (1995), the Monte Carlo Piano Masters (Grand Prix, 2001) and the International Piano Competition in Sydney (2004).
He is actively engaged in recital and performing activities, regularly giving concerts and master-classes in many towns and cities all over the world. He has played with the Russian National Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, State Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Vienna and Krakow Chamber Orchestras and many other ensembles. Collaborated with such musicians as Mikhail Pletnev, Maxim Vengerov, Kazimierz Kord, Veronika Dudarova, Mischa Maisky, Julian Rachlin, Antoni Wit…
The musician’s recordings released in Great Britain, the Netherlands, USA, Russia, Japan and Australia have been highly acclaimed in the press and have received awards. In September 2007, cellist Boris Andrianov and Rem Urasin’s joint CD of works by Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich was selected by the British magazine Gramophone as the best chamber disc of the month. In 2015 the musician released a double CD of the complete collection of F. Chopin’s mazurkas on the record label Brilliant Classic, which garnered over 3 million views on Brilliant Classic YouTube channel.

In 2006 the pianist was awarded the honorary title of National Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan.

In 2009−2010 together with cinematographer R. Rubtsova Rem Urasin prepared a major musical and literary cycle "Frèdéric Chopin. Complete Works" commemorating the 200th anniversary of the great composer. The cycle consisted of 11 concerts featuring a narrator for whom a special script was written, based on diaries, letters, and reminiscences of Chopin’s contemporaries. All of Chopin’s works, from his first childhood polonaise to his final mazurka, were performed without exception.

In the 2017/2018 season, the musician inaugurated a new large-scale music-educational historical concert series, The Great Romantics, for several seasons, devoted to the lives and works of Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, Friderik Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Edvard Grieg and Johannes Brahms.

The invariably high public interest in the composer’s projects confirms that Rem Urasin is a born romantic pianist with an excellent sense of style, a respect for tradition and a great musician’s culture. It is no coincidence that Polish critics have called him "Chopin-like," while his admirers call him "Chopin's ambassador".

Rem Urasin is the composer of many arrangements and virtuoso transcriptions for piano as well as arrangements for chamber ensembles and orchestrations for symphony orchestra of works by Tatar composers, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Gavrilin, Shostakovich, Schubert, Faure and other composers. Many of these versions have become part of the repertoires of musicians in Russia and abroad.

He is the artistic director of the annual Sviatoslav Richter Foundation Music and Arts Festival in Tarusa and of the International Summer School of Art of the Sviatoslav Richter Foundation, held annually as part of the festival.

Since 2022 the musician has been living in Portugal.

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