Two long-term stage partners, pianist Alexei Grynyuk and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, will perform for the first time at the Sapieha Palace concert hall.
Described by the New York Times as “a musician of great technical prowess, intellectual curiosity and expressive depth”, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich has performed as a soloist with the world’s leading orchestras.
He had his Vienna Musikverein debut as part of the European tour with the Staatskapelle Dresden, his US debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, his Asia debut at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and performed five times at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms.
Elschenbroich has worked with a number of eminent conductors, including Semyon Bychkov, Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Mark Elder, Charles Dutoit, Manfred Honeck, Kirill Karabits, Dmitri Kitajenko, Andrew Litton, Juanjo Mena, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, Vasily Sinasiky, and Edo De Waart. As a soloist, he has performed with the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé, Bournemouth Symphony, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Dresden Staatskapelle, Swedish Radio Symphony, Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, Residentie Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic, Japan Philharmonic, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Pacific Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
British-Ukrainian pianist Alexei Grynyuk performs at the most prestigious concert halls and music festivals across the world. He has performed recitals at the Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland, Newport Music Festival in the USA, Duszniki Chopin Festival in Poland, International Keyboard Festival in New York, among many others. The venues include Wigmore Hall and the South Bank Centre in London, Salle Cortot and Salle Gaveau in Paris, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Alexei has displayed tremendous interest in music from an early childhood and started performing at the age of six. At thirteen, he attracted wide attention by winning first prize at the Dyagilev All-Soviet-Union piano competition. He went on to win many competitions, notably first prize at the Horowitz International Piano Competition in Kyiv and Shanghai International Piano Competition in China.
Programme:
Johannes Brahms
Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2, Op. 99
“Four Serious Songs”, Op. 21