Kirill Kuzmin

Kirill Kuzmin is a Grammy-nominated collaborative pianist and vocal coach. He is currently an associate professor of opera and vocal coaching at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). He has served on the music staff of prestigious opera companies, festivals, and organizations, including Houston Grand Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Seiji Ozawa Music Academy, Glimmerglass Festival, and Bolshoi Theater. In the summer of 2025, he will join Wolf Trap Opera.

Recital appearances have included San Francisco Symphony and War Memorial Opera House, Opera America (New York), Balliol College (Oxford), and the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston).

A Russian native, Mr. Kuzmin spent three seasons with the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. While in Moscow, he also served as pianist and coach for several operatic productions by the acclaimed Moscow Philharmonic.

Passionate about Russian vocal music, Kuzmin has made it his mission to make the Russian repertoire more accessible to non-Russian-speaking musicians. He is the author and creator of RussianIPA.com, a comprehensive resource on Russian lyric diction and repertoire.

Mr. Kuzmin holds degrees in piano performance from the Moscow Conservatory and in collaborative piano from the Moscow Conservatory and the University of Michigan, where he studied with renowned collaborative pianist Martin Katz.