The Juilliard School - M.M.
Mannes College of Music - B.M.
Manhattan School of Music - D.M.A.
American pianist and educator Dr. Michael Kaykov was born into a musical family and gave his first public performance at the age of six. He has earned his Bachelor of Music degree with honors from Mannes College of Music, studying with professor Jerome Rose and Master’s degree from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. He finished his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree at the Manhattan School of Music, writing his dissertation “The Evolution of Alexander Scriabin’s Harmonic Language and Pianistic Textures Across his Etudes Op. 8, 42 and 65” under the guidance of renowned Fulbright scholar and musicologist Dr. Edward Green. Michael appeared as a soloist throughout USA, Europe and Asia. The third album of his Liszt series on Odradek Records was issued in April 2024 with favourable reviews in Fanfare Magazine and MusicWeb International. The next album: “Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 69”, is scheduled for a June 2026 release on Naxos. Michael Kaykov is a Steinway & Sons educational partner and on the Harlem School of the Arts (NYC) piano faculty. Michael has been a recipient of the Kamiya Sisters Piano Scholarship, Susan W. Rose Piano Scholarship, and the Celia and Joseph Ascher Fund for Piano Award (Juilliard School, 2012-2014); Piano Scholarship and Doctoral Fellowship (Manhattan School of Music, 2014-2020); and the Cirio Foundation (NYC) Scholarship (2016-2020). Michael's scholarly articles (musicology) have been published in the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (IRASM, Croatian Musicological Society), Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki (PMN, Russia), and Innovation Art Studies (ICONI, Russia).
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