Peter Laul

Peter Laul is a diverse and brilliant pianist of the younger generation. He studied at the Middle Special Lyceum School of the St Petersburg Conservatoire in the class of Alexander Sandler, under whom he continued his studies and completed a post-graduate course at the St Petersburg Conservatoire itself. Since 2002 he has taught a&bsp;special piano class at the conservatoire and the lyceum school. Peter Laul has won prizes at the Bremen International Competition (Germany, 1995, 3^rd prize and special prize for the best performance of a work by Bach; 1997, 1^st prize and special prize for the best performance of a sonata by Schubert) and the Scriabin International Competition in Moscow (Russia, 2000, 1st prize).

The pianist regularly performs in recital – his name can be seen on the playbills of the Great and Small Halls of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, the Great and Small Halls of the Moscow Conservatoire, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow), the Svetlanov and Chamber Halls of the Moscow International House of Music (Moscow), the Louvre (Paris), the Musée d’Orsay (Paris), the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Steinway Hall and the Lincoln Center (New York), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Vredenburg (Utrecht), Die Glocke (Bremen), the Casino (Basel), Le Corum (Montpellier), Opera City Hall (Tokyo), the Théâtre La Monnaie (Brussels), the Salle Garnier (Monaco), the Opéra de Lyon (France) and numerous other venues in Russia, Germany, France, Great Britain, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Luxemburg, Italy, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Turkey, the USA, Brazil and Japan.

Peter Laul has taken part in festivals in Colmar and Saint-Riquier (France), the Art-November festival (Moscow) and the Printemps des Arts festival (Monaco) among others. Orchestras with which he regularly works include the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg Philharmonic (Honoured Ensemble of Russia), the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, theatre orchestras in Dessau, Bremerhaven and Oldenburg and the Urals, Voronezh, Kazan, Samara, Karelia and North Caucasus Philharmonic Orchestras. The pianist regularly works with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Nikolai Alexeyev, Vladimir Ziva, Vasily Sinaisky, Felix Korobov, Tugan Sokhiev, Jean-Claude Casadesus and Maxim Shostakovich.

The pianist dedicates particular attention to&bnsp;chamber music. His regular partners include Ilya Gringolts, Graf Mourja, Alyona Bayeva, Sergei Levitin, David Grimal, Laurent Korcia and Marc Coppey.

In 2003 Peter Laul was presented with an honorary award by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation “For Achievements in Culture.”