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18:00 | Pierre-Laurent Aimard (France) |
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 Pierre-Laurent Aimard will perform works by Volkonsky, Boulez, Roslavets and Birtwistle. Widely acclaimed as a key figure in the music of our time and as a uniquely significant interpreter of piano repertoire from every age, Pierre-Laurent Aimard enjoys an internationally celebrated career. Musical visionary and a pioneer artist renowned for his revelatory insights, he was awarded the prestigious 2017 International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in recognition of a life devoted to the service of music. Aimard’s 2019/20 programme focus, “Beethoven and the Avant-Garde”, is a tour de force of pianistic discoveries which transcends traditional boundaries. In this unique and very personal take on Beethoven’s legacy developed in response to the composer’s 250th anniversary year, Aimard juxtaposes Viennese Classic with compositions of the avant-garde to reveal surprising cross-references. This season sees Aimard present the project in concerts as part of Berliner Festspiele at Philharmonie Berlin, Philharmonie de Paris, Tokyo Opera City, Southbank Centre and on tour in the US. Pierre-Laurent has made many highly successful recordings. His first recording of the complete Catalogue d’oiseaux, released in Spring 2018, has been highly praised by critics and audiences worldwide and honoured with multiple awards including the prestigious German music critic’s award “Preis der deutsche Schallplattenkritik”.
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22:30 | Roman Mints and Aylen Pritchin (Russia) |
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 Violinists Roman Mints and Aylen Pritchin will perform Hay que caminar by Luigi Nono. Roman Mints was born in 1976 in Moscow and began playing the violin at the age of five. In 1994 Roman won a Foundation Scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, and also studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, winning prizes at each. His teachers were L. Svetlova, N. Fikhtengoltz and F. Andrievsky. Roman Mints has given Russian premieres of works by Desyatnikov, Golijov, Tavener, MacMillan, Scelsi and Mozetich and has also given world premieres of over fifty works by Tabakova, Desyatnikov,Bennett, Finnissy, Irvine, Langer, Vassiliev, Burrell, Miyachi, Duddell, and others. Aylen Pritchin was born in Leningrad in 1987 and began to study the violin at the age of six. He graduated from the Secondary Special Music School of the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Elena Zaitseva), the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and undertook a postgraduate study there (class of Eduard Grach). Prize-winner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians (Kurashiki, Japan, 2004; 1st prize), the Yampolsky International Violin Competition (Moscow, 2006; 1st prize), the Pancho Vladigerov Piano and Violin International Competition (Shumen, Bulgaria, 2007 etc.
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