Eugene Mursky was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He received his first piano instructions when he was six years old at a youth music school. Two years later, he was admitted to the class of the famous piano pedagogue, Tamar Popovich, at an institute for highly talented children. At the age of twelve, Mursky made his first trip to Moscow to study with Professor Lev Naumov. The following year, at age 13 he achieved his first major success in Tashkent, performing Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto as a soloist with the Uzbekistan State Sympohony Orchestra. In 1989 Mursky was awarded the First Prize at the Piano Competition of Uzbekistan.
In 1993 Eugene Mursky left Tashkent to pursue his advanced studies with Reinhard Becker at the State College of Music in Trossingen, Germany. During this period, he received numerous awards and in 1994, the high point in Mursky’s artistic career came when he was awarded First Prize in the World Piano Competition of London under the auspices of Princess Diana. In addition to the first prize, Mursky was awarded a special prize for the best interpretation of Chopin. In the following years he won First Prize at several competitions including the Concours Grieg 2000 in Oslo, the Bremen International Piano Competition 2001 and .Denza International Piano Competition in Naples. From 1998 to 2003, Eugene Mursky studied in Salzburg and received the acclaimed Mozarteum Award..
He has recently been commissioned by the Hanssler label to record the complete works of Chopin in commemoration of Frederic Chopin’s 200th birthday in 2010
