RECITAL NO. 7

VASSILY PRIMAKOV – piano

Saturday, 28 August, at 20:00

"Primakov gave a fiery performance of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, with bold, expressive phrasing and dramatic commitment that brought the audience to its feet." – Jeremy Eichler, The New York Times

Vassily Primakov was born in Moscow in 1979.  His first piano studies were with his mother, Marina Primakova.  He entered Moscow's Central Special Music School at the age of eleven as a pupil of Vera Gornostaeva. At seventeen, after a summer at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, he went to New York to pursue studies at the Juilliard School with the noted pianist Jerome Lowenthal.   At Juilliard Mr Primakov won the William Petschek Piano Recital Award, which presented his debut recital at Alice Tully Hall.  Whilst still a student, aided by a Susan W. Rose Career Grant, he won both the Silver Medal and the Audience Prize in the 2002 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition.  Later that year Primakov won First Prize in the 2002 Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions, an award which presented him in solo and concerto performances throughout the USA.  In 2007 he was named the Classical Recording Foundation's "Young Artist of the Year" and in 2009 his Chopin Mazurkas recording was named "Best of the Year" by the USA National Public Radio.  Upcoming releases include an all-Schubert CD, the three Chopin Sonatas, and the first volume of Primakov's "Complete Mozart Piano Concertos" cycle, performed with the Odense Symphony Orchestra.

PROGRAMME

HANDEL	Chaconne in G major)
SCHUMANN	Kreisleriana op 16
RACHMANINOFF	12 Preludes (from Op.23 and Op.32)

Booking opens on 5 July.

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