Grieg Piano Concerto
Thursday March 15 (07:30 PM)
First Baptist Church, New Orleans
Featuring the 2011 New Orleans International Piano Competition Gold Medalist Eduard Kunz
Eri Klas, conductor
Eduard Kunz, piano
PROGRAM:
Tormis: Overture No. 2
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1
Eduard Kunz has performed with almost every major orchestra in the United Kingdom including BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with conductors such as Tugan Sokhiev, Christian Mandeal, Edward Gardner, Gerard Schwarz, Lothar Koenigs, Garry Walker, Clark Rundell, Mark Stephenson, Alejandro Posada, Josep Caballe Domenech, Alexander Joel, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Barry Wordsworth, and David Angus.
Other important debuts included Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonie, The Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Orkest van het Oosten, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse and Braunschweig Symphony orchestras as well as recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Louvre in Paris, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Winterthur hall in Barcelona. His recordings for radio include BBC Radio 3, Radio France, Deutschland Radio Kultur, and Amro among others.
Kunz is a winner of 13 first prizes of International Piano Competitions including The George Enescu Competition in Bucharest, the New Orleans International Piano Competition, and Paderewski International Piano Competition.
Other awards included Silver medal from The Worshipful Company of Musicians in London, awards from Hattori and Musical Foundation, Dame Myra Hess and Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe as well as Spivakov Foundation and “Richter” award from Rostropovich Foundation in Moscow.
Born in Siberia, Kunz studied with Michail Khokhlov at the Gnessin Special school for gifted children and with Andrei Diev at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and gained his Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction as well as the Gold Medal for performance from the Royal Northern College of Music studying with Norma Fisher and the late Mark Ray.
Kunz is a Verbier Festival laureate and a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist currently based in Suffolk.
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