CONCERTS
October 9, 2024
The Keyboard Trust Presents The extraordinary Mikhail Kambarov
Hosted at Steinway Hall on Wednesday, 16 October 2024 at 6:30pm
The Keyboard Trust proudly presents the winner of the International Alexander Scriabin Piano Competition, at Steinway Hall, London on Wednesday 16 October 2024.
FREE ADMISSION
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Mikhail Kambarov
“Kambarov’s performance showed great musical maturity and superb technical brilliance.“
Taunuszeitung
PROGRAMME:
Scarlatti Sonata in B minor, K. 87
Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
Messiaen “Le Baiser” from “Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus”
Beethoven Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
This one-hour recital will be followed by a short, informal interview with Mikhail to talk about his life and his choice of music.
Please join us for a complimentary glass of fizz + nibbles after the concert and an opportunity to meet the artist.
Donations to the Keyboard Trust gratefully received.
BIO:
Mikhail Kambarov was born in 2000 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and had his first piano lessons at the age of five. At eight, he made his orchestral debut with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Nizhny Novgorod. At sixteen, he moved to Germany to continue his musical studies at the Hochbegabtenzentrum Schloss Belvedere Weimar with Christian Wilm Müller. Since 2023, he has been studying with Michail Lifits.
He has won prizes at many international competitions including First Prize at the 24th International Alexander Scriabin Piano Competition in Grosseto (Italy). He also won First Prize at the eleventh International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Estonia, (and the prize for the best J.S. Bach interpretation); Second Prize at the seventh International Piano Competition in Fribourg, Switzerland; First Prize at the International Piano Competition “Citta di Moncalieri”; Third Prize at the tenth International Piano Competition for Young Pianists “A Step Towards Mastery” in St. Petersburg, in addition to an EMCY Prize; First Prize at the International Piano Competition in Wiesbaden; and First Prize, the Audience Prize and the Special Prize for the best interpretation of a sonata by Domenico Scarlatti at the second International Piano Competition Domenico Scarlatti.
As a soloist, Mikhail has worked with many renowned orchestras including the Philharmonic Orchestra of Nizhny Novgorod, the Orchestra Sinfonica Città di Grosseto, the Youth Symphony Orchestra Algirdas Paulavičius, the Nizhny Novgorod Soloists and the Thuringia Philharmonic Orchestra Gotha/Eisenach. He has performed in prestigious venues in Russia, Austria, Germany and Italy.
In addition to his extensive solo activities, Mikhail is also a passionate and experienced chamber musician and “lieder” pianist. With the Trio Fulminato, he has won numerous prizes, including the First National Prize at the Jugend Musiziert, combined with a sponsorship prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. The Trio has also won the WDR Klassikpreis, the MDR Special Prize, as well as the Hermann Abs Special Prize of the Beethovenhaus Bonn for the best interpretation of a work by Ludwig van Beethoven.
In 2018, the Trio Fulminato toured the USA with concerts in Boston, Nelson and Washington DC. The Trio’s concerts have been recorded several times and broadcast on MDR Kultur and WDR 3.