Boris Petrushansky was born in Moscow in 1949 to musician parents. At the age of 8 he was admitted to the Central School at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Inna Levina. In 1964 he met one of the greatest musicians of our time, Heinrich Neuhaus, and became his last pupil. Those few months spent in Neuhaus' classroom were decisive in many respects for the artist's subsequent development, being completed under the direction of Prof. L. Naumov, Neuhaus' pupil and assistant, a fine musician, faithful guardian of the romantic traditions of the school that gave the world Gilels and Richter.
To the prizes of the three competitions won (Leeds, 1969; Munich, 1970; Fly; 1971) was followed by the victory at the "Casagrande" Competition in Terni in 1975, which was followed by an important concert tour. The most important events of this period are represented by the concerts held at the festivals of Spoleto, Brescia and Bergamo, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (where he replaced Sviatoslav Richter), in Rome, Milan, Turin.
Among the orchestras with which he has played are the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Philharmonic of the Czech Republic, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Berlin Staatskapelle, the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the New European Strings, the Chamber Orchestra of the European Community, etc. He has collaborated with conductors such as J. Ferencik, M. Atzmon, P. Berglund, Lu Jia, E-P. Salonen, V. Fedoseev, J. Latham-Koenig, A. Nanut, V. Gergiev, R. Abbado, V. Jurowsky. Chamber music partners include L. Kogan, I. Oistrakh, V. Afanasiev, D. Sitkovetsky, M. Maisky, Borodin Quartet, Philharmonia Quartett Berlin. He has recorded for Melodia (Russia), Art & Electronics (Russia-USA), Symposium (England), Fone, Dynamic, Agora and Stradivarius (Italy). Boris Petrushansky continues an intense concert activity both in Italy and in Russia, where he returns regularly, as well as in Germany, Austria, USA, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, England, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Israel, South Africa, Egypt, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Chile, etc.
Professor at the Moscow Conservatory from 1975 to 1979, he has held Masterclasses in the USA, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, France, Belgium, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Poland. He has been a member of the jury in the competitions of Bolzano, Warsaw, Terni, Vercelli, Tongyeong, Orlèans, Paris, Moscow. Maestro Petrushansky lives in Italy, and has been teaching at the International Piano Academy "Incontri col Maestro" since 1990.
In June 2014 he was awarded the international prize of the Accademia delle Muse in Florence.