Gergiev’s son graduates in the US

We are informed that Abisal Gergiev is about to receive his BA in music at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

On April 15 Abisal Gergiev performed a solo recital as partial fulfillment of the degree. He is a student of Professor Wha Kyung Byun, whose American graduate George Li came second in Valery Gergiev’s International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Abisal, 23, is the apple of his father’s eye. We may expect to see him in this summer’s Tchaikovsky’s Competition. Unilike other young Russians his age, he has not been called to military service. Unlike other Putin intimates, his father seems to have escaped US sanctions.

Might he attend the graduation? With a jump-in at the BSO?