Rem Urasin is a concert pianist whose international career encompasses solo performance, orchestral appearances, recording, and large-scale artistic projects.

A laureate of major international competitions, including the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, he has collaborated with musicians such as Mikhail Pletnev, Maxim Vengerov, Mischa Maisky, and Julian Rachlin, and has performed with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and Russian National Orchestra.

His complete recording of Chopin’s Mazurkas has surpassed five million views on YouTube. In 2020, he received the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his contribution to the understanding and promotion of Chopin’s musical legacy.

Now based in Portugal, Urasin continues an active international performing and recording career while developing long-term artistic projects.

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Rem Urasin, piano · Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra
Ilya Derbilov, conductor
Live performance · 2022

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810–1849)
Complete Mazurkas
Rem Urasin, piano
Studio recording · Brilliant Classics · 2016

FRANZ LISZT (1811–1886)
Sonata in B minor, S.178
Rem Urasin, piano
Live performance · 2017

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1856)
Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
Rem Urasin, piano
Live performance · 2019

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
Rondo in D major, K. 485
Rem Urasin, piano
Live performance · 2026

Chopin has occupied a central place in Rem Urasin’s artistic life since the beginning of his career. He is among the very few pianists in the history of performance to have presented the composer’s complete works, from the earliest pieces to the final compositions. This lifelong engagement culminated in the eleven-concert cycle Frédéric Chopin. Complete Works, encompassing the entire solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral legacy.

Each concert was conceived within a chronological and historical framework, with a narrator reading texts drawn from letters, memoirs, and contemporary sources to recreate the world surrounding the music. In 2020, Urasin received the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his contribution to the understanding and promotion of Chopin’s musical legacy.

The Great Romantics was conceived as a multi-season cycle devoted to the nineteenth century as a complex and interconnected artistic world. Each programme follows not only the music itself, but also the creative path of the composers — the development of their artistic lives, the turning points of their careers, and the circumstances in which their works emerged.

Across more than twenty-five interconnected solo, chamber, and vocal programmes, the cycle traces the links between individual composers, their biographies, artistic circles, historical events, and different forms of musical life. The chamber and vocal programmes also present Rem Urasin as an ensemble musician, placing collaborative music-making alongside the solo repertoire as an essential part of the project. Every programme incorporates a narrator, using literary and documentary texts to place the music within the broader cultural context of the period.

Tatar music is closely connected with Rem Urasin’s own background. Born and raised in Kazan and of half-Tatar heritage, he grew up within the multicultural musical environment of Tatarstan and has remained closely involved with its classical music throughout his professional life.

Over several decades, he has performed and recorded works by major Tatar composers, premiered new music, collaborated personally with composers and their families, and created numerous piano transcriptions and orchestral arrangements. He was the first performer of Rashid Kalimullin’s Piano Concerto, and many of his transcriptions of Tatar music are now performed by other pianists. In 2005–06, he repeatedly presented a full programme devoted to the history of Tatar piano music, created in connection with the millennium of Kazan.

Throughout his career, this work has remained an important part of his artistic activity: preserving, performing, recording, arranging, and promoting Tatar classical music internationally, and bringing this repertoire to wider audiences and into contemporary concert life. In 2006, Urasin was awarded the honorary title National Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan.