Let's make this birthday one to remember.

69 years old (Born on September 21, 1955)

Happy Birthday to the phenomenal Andrei Gavrilov, whose fingers have danced effortlessly from Bach to Beethoven, and Mozart to Ravel! You've mastered more composers than most people can pronounce—and you still make it look easy. May your birthday cake have as many layers as a Handel fugue and your candles bring fewer surprises than Haydn's symphonies.

Here's wishing you another year filled with standing ovations, flawless arpeggios, witty backstage anecdotes, and endless encores. Keep delighting us (and scaring off piano tuners!) with performances so timeless that even Beethoven himself would clap—OK he'd at least nod appreciatively—from beyond the grave. Happy Birthday!