We at Delos are tickled pink to announce that brilliant young Russian pianist and Delos recording artist Andrey Gugnin (28) was just named the winner of the prestigious Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition’s 2014 outing in Salt Lake City, emerging victorious from a field of 37 accomplished pianists. Just last summer, his friend and piano-duo partner (and fellow Delos artist) Vadym Kholodenko won the 2013 Van Cliburn competition. This supremely gifted pair – known as iDuo – can be heard together on their like-titled CD, DE 3405, in a thrilling program of duo-piano classics. Gugnin also made quite a splash with his Delos recording (DE 3366) of the two Shostakovich piano concertos, partnering with Constantine Orbelian, Delos’ own resident Maestro.