Vitaly Pisarenko - Piano Recital

The Pharos Arts Foundation in collaboration with the Keyboard Charitable Trust in London will welcome the return visit of the sensational young pianist Vitaly Pisarenko, winner of the First Prize in the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition and Third Prize winner at the 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition. His recital, which is organised on Friday 9 June 2017 at The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, as part of the 17th International Pharos Chamber Music Festival, will include works by Schubert, Schumann and Liszt.

PROGRAMME:

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Drei Klavierstucke D.946 (1828)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke, Op.12 (1837)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Ballade No.1 in D-flat major, S.170 (1848)
Ballade No.2 in B minor, S.171 (1853)
Hungarian Rhapsody No.10 in E major, S.244 (1847)
Hungarian Rhapsody No.13 in A minor, S.244 (1847)

VITALY PISARENKO / piano

In 2008, aged 21 Russian pianist Vitaly Pisarenko, won the First Prize in the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht. Vitaly's packed tour schedule, with world‐wide engagements, commenced straight away the morning after the Finals with an appearance at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Damian Iorio. In 2015, Pisarenko won the Third Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition. Vitaly Pisarenko gave his first public recital at the age of six. Since winning the Liszt Competition, his career really took off and he has performed in more than twenty-five countries. He has collaborated with such renowned orchestras as the North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, the Polish National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra, and he performed in several prestigious festivals including the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw, Vilnius Piano Festival, the International Chopin Piano Festival in Duszniki (Poland), the Euro Music Festival in Halle (Germany), the Grachtenfestival (Amsterdam), the Diaghilev Festival (St. Petersburg), and in venues such as Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Musikverein in Vienna, De Singel in Antwerp, Palace of Arts in Budapest, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and the Shanghai Concert Hall, the Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, St. John's Smith Square, Royal Albert Hall and the St. James Piccadilly in London. Pisarenko began his studies in Ukraine, and continued at Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and at Oxana Yablonskaya’s Piano Institute in Italy. In 2014, he graduated with a Mastrer’s degree with distinction and in 2015 with Artist Diploma degree from the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with Dmitri Alexeev.

TICKETS:
Tickets: €10
Box Office: Directly from the Foundation’s website www.pharosartsfoundation.org/Tickets_online.htm or Tel. 9666-9003 (Monday - Friday 10:00am-3:00pm)