Pianist Anson Tang has captivated audiences with his deeply emotional performances. Overcoming challenges related to his physical condition, he became a scholar under the Lee Hysan Foundation and graduated from the prestigious Royal College of Music in London in 2024. Anson is the first wheelchair user to graduate from the college's keyboard faculty, where he studied under Professor Nigel Clayton. He has also been generously supported by Talent Unlimited since 2023.

Anson Tang (piano)

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Witness tomorrow’s musicians today as the English Schools’ Orchestra and award-winning pianist Michael Bostock bring the symphonic power of Rachmaninov, Wagenaar, and Scriabin to life in an extraordinary display of lyrical beauty and young talent.

The English Schools' Orchestra with Michael Bostock

Milton Court Concert Hall

Recently selected as a 2025/26 Kirckman Artist, Sherri Lun is currently completing her Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music. Her recital is inspired by the title Skryabin gave to his revelatory, large-scale third sonata, États d’âme – states of the soul. Beethoven’s inward journey towards transcendence in his penultimate sonata and Szymanowski’s colours of seduction and fantasy in ‘Don Juan’ complete the programme.

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Sherri Lun piano

Wigmore Hall

Sherri Lun presents a recital inspired by the title Scriabin gave to his revelatory Third Sonata, ‘États d’âme’ or ‘States of the Soul’. Beethoven’s inward journey towards transcendence in his penultimate sonata and Szymanowski’s colours of seduction and fantasy complete the programme. 

Sherri Lun

Wigmore Hall, London

Chopin, Scriabin, Rachmaninov

Chiaramonte Steri Palace

With an evening brimming with sonic magic and visionary power, Marie Jacquot celebrates her inaugural concert as the new chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra. From the ethereal prelude to Wagner's opera "Lohengrin," the program spans Chopin's Piano Concerto in F minor to the evocative tone poems of the late Romantic era: "Andromède" by the Irish-French composer Augusta Holmès and "Le poème de l'extase" by the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. Let yourself be captivated by this dramatic program – and experience the exceptional pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, a former winner of the prestigious Warsaw Chopin Competition.

Departure - Marie Jacquot & Yulianna Avdeeva

Cologne Philharmonie

Benjamin Grosvenor Piano Recital

Hong Kong City Hall

Festival tour BBC Proms, LondonFestival

Royal Albert Hall

Experience ‘the world’s greatest orchestra’ (LA Times) performing with award-winning soloist Augustin Hadelich in the closing concert of their residency.

Berliner Philharmoniker: Closing Concert

Usher Hall

Festival tour Edinburgh International Festival

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

When a violinist makes a debut with a top orchestra like the Berliner Philharmoniker, it’s no easy task. After all, seated around them are more than two dozen violinists who often perform as soloists themselves — and who listen with correspondingly sharp ears. All the more remarkable, then, was Augustin Hadelich’s first appearance with the “Berliners” in 2021: the wish to perform with him actually came from within the orchestra itself — a true badge of honor.

Berliner Philharmoniker | Kirill Petrenko | Augustin Hadelich

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Festival tour Lucerne Festival

Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre

Juho Pohjonen, praised by The Washington Post for his “impeccable technique” and by The New York Times for his “breathtaking performances,” plays Russian composer Alexander Scriabin’s last five piano sonatas, which date from the early 20th century and showcase the composer’s mysterious and mystical late style.

Juho Pohjonen Piano Recital

New Mexico Museum of Art

Bach - Liszt - Medtner - Chopin - Beethoven

Alexandre Kantorow piano recital

Parc de Florans

Pianist Nicolas Namoradze, winner of the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition, gives a recital featuring Ravel’s exquisitely restrained Pavane pour une infante défunte; a lesser-known and wonderfully original sonata by Beethoven; Scriabin’s seaside-inspired Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, Op. 19; and music from Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé ballet score, which Stravinsky called “one of the most beautiful products of all French music.”

Nicolas Namoradze Piano Recital

When Jennifer Higdon began to compose blue cathedral, she imagined a journey through a glass cathedral in the sky. Her creativity leaves the door wide open for you to explore “humanity’s perennial question of existence” with Charles Ives, and be drawn into Scriabin’s own brand of musical mysticism.

Søndergård and Tchaikovsky

Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

Alexander Malofeev's debut was brilliant! The pianist stepped in for the ill Evgeny Kissin at a concert of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra - and the audience could hardly contain itself. The Frankfurt audience rewarded Malofeev's virtuoso playing with thunderous applause, not so much for its power as for its melody and transparency. It was high time for the 23-year-old to give a recital at the Alte Oper. Malofeev readily admits that he feels most at home alone on stage. He then gives an insight into his world of sound: "It's always my own space, even when hundreds of people are listening. I let them in. I like to create my own space. In the Mozart Hall, Malofeev creates a sound space that spans Scandinavia, France, Vienna and his Russian homeland: Characteristic pieces glowing in intense colours.

Alexander Malofeev, piano

Alte Oper

There’s a good reason why Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a classic: deep emotions surge beneath its haunted surface and if anyone can uncover them it’s our soloist, the remarkable Kian Soltani. Today, it’s just one stage on an emotional odyssey devised by our Principal Guest Conductor Patrick Hahn: a voyage that embraces the infinite longing of George Crumb and Richard Wagner, the volcanic grief of Benjamin Britten, and Scriabin’s final, multicoloured starburst of pure sonic bliss. Join us and be transported. 

Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

There’s a good reason why Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a classic: deep emotions surge beneath its haunted surface and if anyone can uncover them it’s our soloist, the remarkable Kian Soltani. Today, it’s just one stage on an emotional odyssey devised by our Principal Guest Conductor Patrick Hahn: a voyage that embraces the infinite longing of George Crumb and Richard Wagner, the volcanic grief of Benjamin Britten, and Scriabin’s final, multicoloured starburst of pure sonic bliss. Join us and be transported.

Some composers think bigger, but it takes a special sort of genius to create a whole new musical universe. Everything about Scriabin’s Third Symphony is larger than life, from the enormous orchestra to the galactic ambition of Scriabin’s inspiration – music that he described as ‘ecstatic’, ‘drunken’ and even ‘divine’! If you like Mahler, you’ll love ‘The Divine Poem’, and for Vasily Petrenko, it’s a passion – a musical experience that doesn’t come around every day.

Hisaishi x Scriabin

Royal Festival Hall

Connor Sung, piano

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

The fourth annual Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival wraps up as Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in Dvořák’s Hero’s Song, a symphony in miniature that bears the composer’s distinctive style and irrepressible Bohemian spirit. Jüri Reinvere’s Concerto for Violin, Harp, and Orchestra receives its world premiere with virtuoso violinist Leila Josefowicz and TCO’s own Principal Harp Trina Struble alongside Bacewicz’s stormy Fourth Symphony and Adolphus Hailstork’s moving elegy for Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hero’s Song

Severance Music Center

Music has the power to express emotions that we have no words for: happiness, grief, ecstasy and the dissolution of boundaries. William Walton, one of the most important English composers of the 20th century, finds in his neo-Romantic viola concerto a path between intimacy and emergence. The bizarre music-mystic Scriabin searched for a great synaesthetic mystery that was supposed to put humanity in a state of ecstasy. The closest he came to achieving this goal was with his captivating Poème de l’extase. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is about the bonding of two people against all societal conventions, the celebration of an all-consuming and fatal love.

Skrja­bin - Wagner - Walton

Meistersingerhalle

Esa-Pekka Salonen is back with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra as conductor and composer! In his Concerto for Organ and Orchestra, he uses every imaginable register – true to his multifaceted artistry. We also hear the dazzling Poème de l’Extase by Scriabin.

Salonen Sinfonia Concertante

Göteborgs Symfoniker

Heeyeon Kim, Percussion

The Juilliard School

Elizabeth Yang, piano

The works on this program are the quintessence of Romantic-era expression, with a focus on themes of individualism and emotionalism, and a lush, hyper-dramatic musical vocabulary. The performance begins with the Prelude from Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde and depicts the passions and frustration of the doomed lovers.

Radiant Romance

Florida State University

Tens of millions of viewers watched in awe as Alexandre Kantorow played Ravel in the rain at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Now, the pianist described by Fanfare as “Liszt reincarnated” returns to LA.

Alexandre Kantorow

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Join us in welcoming the arrival of spring with a festive evening conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and featuring acclaimed pianist Evgeny Kissin in his first NY Phil appearance in ten years. Rimsky-Korsakov’s and Scriabin’s rarely performed piano concertos offer folk inspiration and lush lyricism, respectively. Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite rounds out the program with vivid orchestral color and rhythmic vitality.

Spring Gala with Dudamel & Kissin

David Geffen Hall

This exciting and unusual three-concerto program features acclaimed soloist Evgeny Kissin, known for his charismatic virtuosity. These three sparkling but rarely heard concertos span the late Romantic/early modern periods. The BSO has only played Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s concerto once in 1914, and Scriabin’s on only two prior occasions, most recently in 2001. Andrey Boreyko leads this all-Russian program, opening with Rimsky-Korsakov’s brilliantly colorful Russian Easter Overture.

An Evening of Piano Concertos with Evgeny Kissin and Andrey Boreyko

Boston Symphony Orchestra

French pianist Alexandre Kantorow, admired for his “assured, eloquent playing” (The New York Times), makes his Berkeley debut in a fascinating program of thoughtfully-curated keyboard music.

Alexandre Kantorow, piano

Cal Performances

Doppelganger: Shadow of the Self
"Doppelgänger: Shadows of the Ego." In her program with this title, Svetlana Andreeva embarks on a search for the self in music. It should be said at the outset that she has long since found her (artistic) self – as evidenced not least by her brilliant victory at the Concours international de piano d'Orléans 2024. The competition is entirely dedicated to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries – a home game for the Ukrainian, who is a passionate interpreter of contemporary works and studied composition in addition to piano. In her program, Svetlana Andreeva focuses almost exclusively on early 20th-century repertoire: With Leoš Janáček, she gropes her way through the mists of his eponymous cycle, peers behind Karol Szymanowski's masks, and experiences descent into hell and redemption in Alexander Scriabin's "Black" and "White" Mass. A thrilling musical journey to the limits of consciousness.

Discover Talent: Svetlana Andreeva / Piano Recital

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Don't miss the "Fire-breathing virtuoso with a poetic charm" (Gramophone) in his Atlanta debut. Winner of the 2024 Gilmore Artist Awards, Alexandre Kantorow stunned the Tchaikovsky Competition with his coveted Gold medal and Grand Prix wins. Fanfare magazine calls him "Liszt reincarnated." Experience the unrivaled artistry of this dazzling young player in a program of Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, and more.

Alexandre Kantorow in Recital

The Woodruff Arts Center

Blessed with “poetic and sensitive pianism” (Washington Post) and a “wondrous sense of color” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Grammy Award-nominated pianist Joyce Yang captivates audiences with her virtuosity, lyricism, and interpretive insight.

Joyce Yang, piano

New England Conservatory of Music

The Campus String Ensemble is comprised of non-music major students, faculty members, staff, and alumni of the University of Michigan.

Campus Orchestra String Ensemble

Earl V. Moore Building

In this rare orchestral outing, Evgeny Kissin, “a deeply intuitive and sensitive musician” (The New York Times), takes on spirited and brilliant concertos by three of his Russian countrymen: Prokofiev, Scriabin and Rimsky-Korsakov. Experience the unparalleled artistry of one of the world’s most celebrated pianists as he scales three concertos in a single program.

Evgeny Kissin with the CSO

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

French virtuoso Alexandre Kantorow sets his sights on a triptych of formidable sonatas by Scriabin, Medtner, and Beethoven, whose final sonata is infused with powerful drama, playful jesting, and daring innovation, even foreshadowing the toe-tapping rhythms of jazz and boogie-woogie. The pianist also performs Liszt’s soulful take on a beloved Bach cantata and a searching, wistful prelude by Chopin.

Acclaimed French pianist Alexandre Kantorow makes his debut with The Friends in a program that blends profound Romanticism with visionary modernism. Hailed as a “fire-breathing virtuoso with a poetic charm,” Kantorow offers a fascinating journey through some of the piano repertoire’s most expressive works. The recital opens with Liszt’s majestic Variations on a Motive by Bach, followed by Medtner’s expansive early Sonata Op. 5. The journey continues through the lyricism of Chopin and the mysticism of Scriabin, culminating in the autumnal transcendence of Beethoven’s Op. 111.

Art of the Piano: Alexandre Kantorow

Folly Theater

Each season ticket purchase will provide you with one ticket to each of the upcoming six concerts of the season. If there is a concert you cannot attend, we can either donate your ticket to a student/veteran or provide you with extra tickets to a different concert date.

A Rhapsody of Passion & Elegance​

La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church

Chan Conducts Bartók

Experience a truly moving performance as 24-year-old virtuoso Alexander Malofeev graces the stage for Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. A winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, Malofeev brings a unique and heartfelt interpretation.

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2

Salt Palace Convention Center

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 at The Noorda

Utah Valley University

In 1913, Sibelius received several commissions, the first of which came from the United States and in particular from the composer Horatio Parker, professor of composition at Yale University since 1894. In the spring of 1913, Parker had asked Sibelius for some songs to be sent to American schools, receiving three of them, Autumn Song , The Sun upon the Lake is low and A Cavalry Catch , which would be published by the American composer in 1915 in the collection The Progressive Music Series under the title Three Songs for American Schools . It was Parker himself who later put Sibelius in touch with the wealthy patron Carl Stoeckel, whose father, Gustav Jacob, had been the first professor of music at Yale from 1855 to his retirement in 1896. Stoeckel and his wife, Ellen, were the daughter of Robbins Battell, one of Connecticut's most influential men, both economically and culturally. Their father, Joseph, had built a sumptuous residence in Norfolk, which he named the White House, after the official residence of the President of the United States. Extremely cultured and passionate about music and painting, the couple had created and financed a festival in Norfolk, which is still held every summer under the name of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and is currently managed by Yale University. To host the events, a 2,000-seat concert hall was inaugurated on June 6, 1906. Among the composers whose music was performed on that occasion was Parker, who, in early summer 1913, sent Stoeckel a list of musicians to invite to Norfolk. The patron responded on August 18, saying he would be pleased to begin with Sibelius, to whom Parker sent an invitation to travel to Norfolk in June 1914 to conduct several works, including one, intended to last no more than 15 minutes, which he had composed especially for the occasion. Gripped by financial constraints, Sibelius accepted the commission, as can be seen from what he wrote to his publisher Breitkopf & Härtel on 24 October 1913: “You will not be angry if I speak to you frankly. As you no doubt know, I am working on new major works for a series of concerts which I will probably give in Europe within a year. I have therefore refused all offers to conduct. Having had to face large expenses this year, I have been forced, contrary to my principles, to accept commissions. I especially needed 20,000 marks for the accommodation of my eldest daughter, who has married. I have obtained this sum through two works – a symphonic poem for America [ The Oceanides ] and a pantomime for Denmark [ Scaramouche ].”

Sibelius/Strauss/Skrjabin

Teatro Politeama Garibaldi

Join Benjamin Grosvenor for a fascinating program of fantasies and sonatas spanning the 19th century. Beethoven’s dreamlike Moonlight Sonata is followed by Robert Schumann’s mighty C Major Fantasy, dedicated to fellow virtuoso Liszt. Scriabin’s luminous Sonata No. 2 — inspired by the sea, with its gentle, moonlit waves and stormy climax — leads to Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, a masterpiece of shimmering colors and breathtaking virtuosity.

Benjamin Grosvenor

Marc-André Hamelin, a pianist celebrated for his astonishing technique and profound musicality, explores the music of two restless visionaries: Ives, whose Concord Sonata salutes Transcendentalist thinkers from Emerson to Thoreau, and Scriabin, represented by his turbulent and soul-searching Third Piano Sonata. Robert Schumann’s mercurial Fantasy Pieces span humor, joy and brooding intensity.

Marc-André Hamelin

Instantly recognizable thanks to its use throughout pop culture, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet soars with tender poetry and heart-on-sleeve passion. Blazing with originality and raw intensity, Sofia Gubaidulina’s In Tempus Praesens (“For the Present Time”) is one of those works that must be witnessed live, and a spectacular experience awaits you with rising-star violinist Alexi Kenney. And, get swept away on a sea of glorious sound in Scriabin’s earth-shattering Poem of Ecstasy.

Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet

Jones Hall

A program that begins in silence, almost in white noise. And that ends in the ecstasy of sound. In Scriabin's mystery music, everything dissolves in a visionary orchestral explosion of color – it was "like an ice bath, cocaine, and rainbows." It was the writer Henry Miller who once raved about "Le poème de l'extase" with this comparison. Premiered in New York in 1908, the music world had never experienced anything like it, and even today this music catapults the audience into a parallel universe. In his concert with the hr-Sinfonieorchester, conductor Oscar Jockel builds the effect layer by layer: After his own meticulously composed nothingness, the simplicity of Schubert's four-hand Fantasy in F minor seems like an intimate secret, the contrasts intensifying with Britten's "Scottish Ballad." Then Debussy's "Jeux" sheds new light – as the conductor says – on the ecstasy of the love dance, with its lively melodies and dissonant harmonies soaring upwards in triple meter. Finally, the "absolute sublimation" is achieved with Scriabin, who, as a trained philosopher, explored not only musical realms of the barely comprehensible.

Poem of Ecstasy

Hessischer Rundfunk

Can there be anything more beautiful than music, even when, as here, it speaks not only of exuberant joy and happiness, but also of sorrow and exile?

Music For Everyone

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

A book of fairytales, painted in a thousand subtle and ravishing sounds. A symphony transformed into a multicoloured vortex of desire; and another, split into pieces and rebuilt as a musical monument. Sounds fantastic? You’d expect nothing less when Sir George Benjamin is conducting. The LPO’s new Composer-in-Residence is a sonic alchemist in his own right – a composer who transforms subtle and exquisite sounds into vast emotional landscapes. He’ll conduct his own work Palimpsests, too: music inspired by the many different tales written on medieval manuscripts, and framed tonight by masterpieces that set Benjamin’s own imagination on fire.

Mother Goose

Southbank Centre

Gianandrea Noseda conducts a program that moves from the rich interplay of Brahms’ Double Concerto to the cosmic vision of Scriabin’s Symphony No. 3, Le Poème Divin. In this deeply personal work, Scriabin creates a musical narrative of, as he puts it, “the evolution of the human spirit, torn from an entire past of beliefs and mysteries… to a joyous and intoxicated affirmation of its unity with the universe.”

Le Poème Divin Brahms’ Double Concerto

Kennedy Center

Johannes Brahms’ violin concerto defined the genre for late Romantic era. Despite the huge demands it makes on the soloist, the work is symphonic in nature. Our Artist in Residence, Janine Jansen, who blends formidable strength with tremendous sensitivity and compelling story-telling skills, will be very much at home with Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker in this concert. Completing the programme, Alexander Scriabin’s Third Symphony depicts the ascent of the human spirit from darkness to enlightenment – mystical, intoxicating, and intense.

Kirill Petrenko and Janine Jansen with Brahms’ Violin Concerto

Berliner Philharmoniker

Hailed by CBC Music as one of Canada’s finest young musicians, pianist Tony Yike Yang first rose to international acclaim at the age of 16 after becoming the youngest-ever laureate in the history of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, winning the 5th prize in 2015. The alumnus of The Taylor Academy has also performed for dozens of royalty, dignitaries, and ambassadors such as HRH Camilla, the Queen Consort of the United Kingdom, HRH Queen Mathilde of Belgium, former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, former Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Sabah, and Polish President Andrzej Duda, among others.

Tony Yike Yang and Friends celebrate Chinese New Year

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Barbara Hannigan and pianist Bertrand Chamayou have garnered acclaim in the US and Europe for their chamber music programme. Hear John Zorn’s dazzling song cycle Jumalattaret, paired with music by Messiaen and Scriabin.

Hannigan sings John Zorn

If Lucas Debargue's life were ever to be made into a film, there would be a lot to tell: At the age of nine, the Frenchman began to devote himself to classical music and piano, but a few years later, he gave it all up again – playing the electric bass in a rock band and studying literature initially seemed more interesting. It wasn't until he was 20 that he returned to the piano, but he now also performed as a jazz pianist. At the renowned 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, Debargue "only" placed fourth, but became a crowd favorite during the competition, laying the foundation for his international career.

Lucas Debargue / Piano Night

Vincenzo Milletarì conducts Martucci, Skrjabin, Rimskij-Korsakov

Teatro Malibran

Scriabin’s vision for Prometheus lays out the mythic tale of humanity receiving the gift of fire not just through mystical music but through an all-consuming work of art that draws on the audience’s senses. The Russian composer, who described himself as synesthetic, envisioned a color organ for the piece that would project various hues of light that he associated with each musical tone or chord.

Prometheus with Esa-Pekka Salonen

Russian extremes in fascinating proximity: Here you'll encounter the most tamed Prokofiev right next to the wildest Scriabin – and in the middle of it all, Tchaikovsky, who, as so often, takes on the role of the romantically suffering hero. Prokofiev's Symphonie Classique presents itself as a virtuoso masterpiece, reaching far back into the elegant world of Haydn's classics. Then you'll experience Tchaikovsky's most famous virtuoso piece: the passionate Piano Concerto No. 1 – played by Roman Borisov, who proves with every note that passion cannot be had without pain.

Scriabin: Le Poème de l'extase

Tonhalle Düsseldorf

Matthew Driver – DMA Recital

Hamel Music Center

This artist is simply incredible! In recent years, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko has collected first prizes at international piano competitions like other people collect stamps. He won three in 2022, and two more in 2024 – and those are just the most important competitions. To say that the Canadian is a magnificent pianist seems almost an understatement: Up and down the country, the press and audiences praise his outstanding technique, the depth of his interpretations, and his charisma. We will be hearing more from Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, that's for sure. And soon, at ProArte: At the Elbphilharmonie, the pianist will present sophisticated and virtuosic works from Bach to Scriabin.

Discover Talent: Jaeden Izik-Dzurko / Piano Recital

South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son has been forced to cancel, due to personal reasons, and is replaced by the Russian-born pianist Anna Vinnitskaya. Based in Hamburg, Vinnitskaya is a professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. The Washington Post has hailed her as a true “piano lion”, and Gramophone Magazine describes her playing as unforgettable.

Piano Solo – Anna Vinnitskaya

Konserthuset Stockholm

Rimsky-Korsakov acknowledged his debt to Liszt for his concerto’s lyricism and virtuosity, but gave it a marked Russian flavour by using a Russian folk song as its main theme.

Evgeny Kissin: One Concert, Three Concertos

Perhaps the most gifted classical pianist of our time, Evgeny Kissin takes centre stage with two rarely-performed jewels of the piano concerto repertoire.

Admired – even venerated – as the heir of the great Russian piano tradition, Kissin has an impressive list of awards, firsts and ‘youngest-evers’ to his name, including a Grammy for his recording of Prokofiev piano concertos with the Philharmonia.

His extraordinary programme brings together two bold, brilliant piano concertos by Prokofiev and Scriabin, alongside two dramatic Russian symphonic tone poems: Rachmaninov’s evocative The Rock, and Mussorgsky’s stormy A Night on the Bare Mountain which promises to thrill audiences with its wild and terrifying Witches’ Sabbath.

Evgeny Kissin: one concert, two concertos

Music straight from Marianna Shirinyan's heart: Get to know our artist-in-residence better for a concert that comes all the way around the piano.
Marianna Shirinyan is the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra's Artist in Residence – and we're celebrating that with an entire concert featuring only piano. Because the piano can do it all: “The piano is a percussion instrument, it's a string instrument – ​​and it's a singing instrument; the piano can sing,” says Marianna Shirinyan. “As pianists, we are incredibly rich. A lifetime is not enough to play the music that has been written for our instrument.”

Shirinyan

Aarhus Music Hall

In this spellbinding program, Music Director Jonathon Heyward illuminates four symphonic portraits, drawing on the unique qualities of each instrument to create vivid, dramatic, and colorful effects. Scriabin’s Prometheus: Poem of Fire features an epic orchestra, choir, piano soloist, and color projections for a truly mesmerizing experience.

Symphonic Poetry: Magic, Fire & Light

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

The young, likeable and down-to-earth German-Italian pianist Sophie Pacini has already performed on stage with Andrea Bocelli and Martha Argerich, has received numerous awards, and, according to her own statement, can smell, taste, and see sounds in color. With her wide-ranging program, with which she opens this season's "Pianomania" series, not only she herself but also the audience will experience a true explosion of the senses.

Sophie Pacini / Piano Recital

2018 WINNER OF THE GENEVA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION

Dmitry Shishkin

The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

Mysticism, spirituality, human sacrifice, and a love-struck Russian composer’s violin concerto come together in a concert infused with sensuality, elemental power, and passion—all with France as the common thread.

Jacquot & Le Sacre du printemps

The Royal Playhouse and The Old Stage

Music and meditation have long gone hand in hand – in everything from yoga studios to mindfulness apps. The pianist and neuropsychologist Nicolas Namoradze goes one step further by introducing meditation techniques to the concert hall. Arvo Pärt’s deeply introspective music provides the ideal backdrop, creating an entirely new listening experience with guided meditation and flexible seating – whether on chairs, beanbags, or (your own) yoga mat.

Deep Listening

Elbphilharmonie

Kick off the season with a thrilling concert led by Principal Guest Conductor JoAnn Falletta, featuring a debut by pianist George Li and powerful works by Adams, Scriabin, and Tchaikovsky.

Falletta Conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth

Omaha Performing Arts

Already awarded several international prizes and celebrated for his "revolutionary, extraordinary, and unpredictable" interpretations, Georgijs Osokins has been shaking up the piano scene for several years. The Latvian has long since established himself on the international stage and is a guest at the idyllic Kotelow Hunting Lodge as part of the "Young Elite" program. He brings a diverse program with works spanning the history of music, from Johann Sebastian Bach to Arvo Pärt and other composers.

YOUNG ELITE Georgijs Osokins

Kotelow Hunting Lodge - Dipl.-Kfm. Jochen Heins

Alexander Malofeev captivates audiences worldwide with his exceptional piano playing, strong expression, and technical brilliance. His interpretations of the classical and romantic repertoire are internationally celebrated, as reflected in his numerous awards and guest appearances with renowned orchestras, as well as invitations to the world's most prestigious concert halls. Last year, he thrilled audiences in the Prince von Metternich Hall of Johannisberg Castle with an impressive piano recital full of sonic intensity, receiving a standing ovation. That's why we insisted on inviting the winner of the 2014 International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians to the Rheingau again this year, performing a virtuoso program with works by Schubert, Liszt, Scriabin, and others.

Schloss Johannisberg

Utopia · Currentzis

Great Festival House

Between Wednesday 13 – Saturday 23 August, Chetham’s International Piano Summer School brings world class and legendary musicians to a vibrant, supportive community in central Manchester. Alongside lectures, open lessons and opportunities to develop new skills, you can discover a daily programme of recitals from world-class performers.

Chetham’s International Piano Summer School 2025 – Day Three

The Stoller Hall

Chetham’s International Piano Summer School 2025 – Day Two

Winner of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition and recipient of the Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medal, 25-year-old Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko has been celebrated by audiences, critics, and composers alike for his communicative power, refined technical command, and artistic maturity. Do not miss this virtuoso’s riveting program of piano masterpieces! 

TSM presents Jaeden Izik-Dzurko

Among the large number of performers who enter the active musical world each year, only a very few can be identified who will actually make it to the top. The best young talents compete in major competitions, often laying the foundation for a brilliant career. One young pianist who is currently making a name for himself in the music world is Jaeden Izik-Dzurko. Winner of the 2024 Concours musical international de Montréal and the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition, he is currently performing in recitals and with major orchestras throughout Europe through the Steinway Prizewinner Concerts Network. With a multifaceted solo program, he will make his debut at this year's Rheingau Music Festival as part of our "Excellent!" series for award-winning young talents.

Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, piano

Since 2019, Evgeni Bozhanov has been a professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen - in addition to his international career as a pianist - where he looks after the keyboard stars of tomorrow. The Bulgarian pianist, who has won the international Frédéric Chopin Competition in Varna, among other things, is now putting on a duo evening with one of these promising talents, his master student Hao Tian. Hao Tian, ​​who was born in China in 2002, can already look back on a number of successes in international competitions himself and joined Evgeni Bozhanov's master class in Essen in 2022. For the Piano Extra II, he has chosen two touchstones of piano literature. Robert Schumann's "Carnaval", for example, which is one of the composer's most important piano cycles. After the turbulent scenes of a masked ball in Schumann's Opus 9, Alexander Scriabin's two-movement sonata takes us out to sea: in the first movement of the "Sonata-Fantaisie" composed in Genoa, the composer evokes a calm evening atmosphere with nighttime moonlight, after which it becomes stormy - in the ocean whipped up by wave-like triplets.

Evgeni Bozhanov & Hao Tian

Philharmonie Mercatorhalle

Echoes Across Eras

Sarasota Orchestra

Hailed by the press as the »ruler of the piano « (La Provence) and a »wonder of articulation« (NDR Kultur), at little more than 25 years of age, Mao Fujita is at home on the world’s great stages. Born in Tokyo in 1998, the Japanese pianist began playing the piano at the age of three. After studying music at the music academy of his native city, he then perfected his playing by studying with Kirill Gerstein in Berlin, where he lives today.

Alexander Scriabin

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 12, 2026

WDR Happy Hour - Divine Game · WDR Sinfonieorchester

Nov 14, 2026

Border crossings - Poga & Prokofiev · WDR Sinfonieorchester

Nov 14, 2026

Ericsson Lin, piano · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Nov 21, 2026

Colburn Orchestra · Los Angeles Philharmonic

Dec 1, 2026

Benjamin Grosvenor piano · Wigmore Hall

Past events

Nov 3, 2026

Anson Tang (piano) · Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Nov 1, 2026

The English Schools' Orchestra with Michael Bostock · Guildhall School of Music & Drama

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