Pianissimo Festival. Vladimir Petrov

The GES-2 House of Culture, in partnership with the Pianissimo Festival, presents a program of summer piano music concerts. Leading young performers from Russia and abroad take part in the festival.

The main idea of the Pianissimo festival is to introduce listeners to the young generation of musicians in new spaces for academic music. Among the halls where the participants of the festival played were the State Hermitage Museum, the St. Petersburg Manege and the ballroom of the Kulm Hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Since 2022, Pianissimo has also been held in Moscow, at the GES-2 House of Culture.

Vladimir Petrov (b. 1997, Russia/Mexico) — pianist, graduated from the Central Music School (class of Valery Pyasetsky), then the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Chaikovskiy (class of Eliso Virsaladze). He continues his studies at the Franz Liszt Higher School of Music (Weimar, Germany, class of Grigory Gruzman). Laureate of many international competitions — in memory of Vera Lotar-Shevchenko (Russia, 2020), the piano competition in the city of Vigo (Spain, 2018), the José Jacinto Cuevas Competition (Mexico, 2018), the NTD TV Competition (USA, 2019). Regular participant of the festivals "Moscow Meets Friends", "Denis Matsuev Presents", "Stars on Baikal", Crescendo, Moscow Easter Festival.

Program

Fryderyk Chopin

Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31

Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39

Etudes, Op. 10 #1, 8, 9, 12

Etude, op. 25 No. 11

Franz Liszt

Great Concert Fantasy on Spanish Themes S 253

Moscow. GES-2 House of Culture. 10.08.23