Konstantin Shcherbakov is a Russian-Swiss pianist, born on 11 June 1963 in Barnaul.
He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied piano with Lev Naumov, and later served as an assistant in Naumov's class. In 1983 he won the first Moscow Rachmaninoff Piano Competition.
Since 1992 Shcherbakov has lived and worked in Switzerland. From 1998 he has been a professor at the Zurich Conservatory.
Shcherbakov is known as an interpreter of exceptionally difficult virtuoso works from the late-Romantic repertoire, especially music by Franz Liszt and Leopold Godowsky. He recorded the complete cycle of Liszt's piano transcriptions of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies and has worked on a complete recording of Godowsky's piano works, with 14 of the planned 15 albums already released in the source article.
Among his other recordings are concertos by Rachmaninoff, Medtner, Scriabin, and Ottorino Respighi, as well as Dmitri Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues. In 2007 he announced the start of an ambitious project to record all piano concertos by pre-revolutionary Russian composers.