Best known as an internationally-acclaimed pianist and recording artist, Michael Boriskin has been extensively involved in every aspect of the concert music world. Hailed by Fanfare magazine as “a brilliant pianist who has done more for contemporary music than just about anyone,” he has performed in over 30 countries. He appears at the world's foremost concert venues, including Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, BBC in London, Theatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Vienna's Arnold Schoenberg Center, and the Ravinia, Tanglewood, Bard, Caramoor, and LaJolla Music Festivals. He has performed as soloist with the Munich and Polish National Radio Orchestras, San Francisco, Utah, Nashville, and Seattle Symphonies, UNAM Philharmonic of Mexico, American Composers Orchestra, and Buffalo Philharmonic, among many others. A prolific recording artist with a large and wide-ranging discography of concertos, chamber music, and piano works on the Naxos, SONY Classical, New World, Bridge, Albany, and Copland House Blend labels, among others, he is a frequent presence as performer or commentator on National Public Radio, Sirius, American Public Media, and Public Radio International. His NPR series CENTURYVIEW explored the last hundred years of piano music, and heard regularly by over one-million listeners on 200 stations coast-to-coast. 

 Called “our fearless tour guide, offering an adventure for the audience” (The New York Times), he has taken audiences on exhilarating journeys through three centuries of music. He has worked with virtually every major American composer of the past 35 years; is a frequent guest of leading educational institutions for lectures, master classes, residencies, and workshops; and is an accomplished writer whose work has been published by the Library of Congress, Schirmer Books, and numerous periodicals. He served as Music Director of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s fabled White Oak Dance Project, overseeing nearly 200 performances on 10 international and domestic tours, and has been an artistic projects advisor or program consultant for the U. S. State Department, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Miller Theater, and many other prominent institutions. As Founding Artistic and Executive Director of Copland House, he has guided this award-winning creative center for American music based at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark home in Westchester County, NY to national and global prominence.