On 22 December the new stage of the Mariinsky Theatre (Mariinsky-II) will see the opening of the X International Piano Festival.
Founded in 2011 by Valery Gergiev and Mira Yevtich, the current festival will break records in terms of the number of participants, events and venues. Over nine days twenty-six pianists from across the globe – Yefim Bronfman, Dmitry Masleyev, Gabriele Carcano, Maria Stembolskaya, Miloš Mihajlović, Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Babayan, Denis Matsuev, Alexander Malofeyev, Behzod Abduraimov, Christian Blackshaw, Pavel Raikerus, Vladimir Tropp, Daniil Kharitonov Lukas Geniušas, Andrei Gugnin, Andrei Yaroshinsky, Nikita Mndoyants, Ksenia Bashmet, Mikhail Voskresensky, Mikhail Turpanov, Yuri Favorin, Kyohei Sorita, Nguyen Kim Ngan, Andrei Shichko, Alexander Pirojenko – will perform nineteen concerts at four venues – the main stage and chamber halls of the Mariinsky-II and at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre.
One of the main themes of the festival is the succession and inheritance of musical traditions. The concerts will feature both established musicians and their talented younger colleagues. In the programmes Children for Children very young pianists will perform for their contemporaries.
Professor of the Moscow Conservatoire Mikhail Voskresensky, one of the greatest representatives of the Russian romantic piano style will perform a recital and present students from his class. The evening dedicated to a performance of the cycle of twenty-four preludes and fugues by Vsevolod Zaderatsky will feature appearances by dazzling young pianists, representatives of the Moscow piano school and students of the renowned teachers Lev Naumov, Vera Gornostayeva and Nikolai Petrov.
The concert will open with an introduction by Professor of the Moscow Conservatoire Vsevolod Zaderatsky Junior, a music historian.
Valery Gergiev will conduct five concerts; also taking part in the festival are the conductors Alexei Bogorad (22 December) and Mischa Damev (26 December).
At the opening evening of the festival there will be a performance by internationally acclaimed pianist Yefim Bronfman and the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of maestro Gergiev. His programme includes two great works of piano music of the 19th and 20th centuries – Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3 and Bartók’s Piano Concerto No 2.
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