Last award ceremony of the Nico Kaufmann Foundation
The Nico Kaufmann Foundation for the financial support of young talents worthy of support awards a scholarship for the last time before it is dissolved.
This year, the contribution of CHF 13,000 will be awarded to Sergey Tanin by Corine Mauch, President of the City and Foundation Board. The award to the young pianist is also a tribute to the legacy and life's work of the founder: Sergey Tanin will perform a song and piano program that sheds light on Nico Kaufmann's musically diverse life - from his beginnings as a classical pianist, to his work as a stage performer in Zurich's Cabaret, to becoming a composer with a language all his own.
Sergey Tanin was born in Yakutia (Siberia) in 1995 and began playing the piano at the age of 5. During his studies with Irina Plotnikova at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, he won the European Piano Competition in Bremen in 2016. In 2019, he moved to Switzerland to continue his studies with Claudio Martinez-Mehner as a recipient of the Federal Excellence Scholarship at the Basel Music Academy. In October 2020, Sergey won first prize and the audience prize at the Kissinger Klavierolymp in Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, and stood in for Hélène Grimaud at her concert in Basel in the same month.
