Georgii Cherkin is Bulgarian pianist and composer, who was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in a family with a great music tradition.

He has played with some of the most respected conductors and musicians in the world. Not only is he renowned for his performances but also for his masterful orchestrations of many popular piano masterpieces, which have captivated audiences. He introduced the first-ever rendition of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" in an arrangement for piano and orchestra, gaining worldwide recognition.

Cherkin's repertoire includes more than 30 concertos for piano and orchestra, including all the concertos by Rachmaninoff and the most difficult ones of the romantic period. He has performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras more than 200 times, and played in many prestigious concert halls all around the world.

Since a young age Cherkin has also been composing & orchestrating music for the symphony orchestra. He has made numerous orchestrations of famous piano pieces, arranged for piano & orchestra. He has made numerous orchestrations of famous piano pieces, arranged for piano & orchestra, including Für Elise by Beethoven, The Moonlight Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven), The Seasons (Tchaikovsky), and The Turkish March from Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart), Clair de Lune (Debussy), Paganini Variations (Brahms) and many more. In 2023 Georgii Cherkin composed and premiered his first major composition - "Galactic Fantasy" for Piano & Orchestra.