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DMITRII KALASHNIKOV
Born in Moscow, aged five Dmitrii was enrolled at the elite Gnessin children's music school before attending the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire where he graduated with honours in 2017. Since then he has performed on several occasions with the Russian National Orchestra, at the Moscow State Conservatoire, the Russian Academy of Music and the Moscow International House of Music as well as appearing at various venues in Paris, Salzburg, Venice, Warsaw, Krakow and Poznan. In December 2018 he made his debut recital at the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. In November 2019 he won the Jaques Samuel Piano Competition at London's Wigmore Hall. Dmitrii currently studies at the Royal College of Music where he is a George Stennett Award Holder and supported by a Neville Wathen Scholarship. Dmitrii became an Imogen Cooper Music Trust scholarship holder in 2020.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770?1827) Sonata in A flat major op 110 (1821)
1. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo 2. Allegro molto 3. Adagio man non troppo - Arioso dolente - Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo

In May 1820 Beethoven promised his publisher three piano sonatas in three months. Op 109 was delivered but owing to an attack of jaundice op 110 was delayed and is dated 25 December 1821. It is suggested that the vigour of the final movement expresses the composer's return to physical and mental health after illness.

FR?D?RIC CHOPIN (1810?49) ?tudes from op 10 (1829?33)
Challenging piano studies were widely used to develop a stronger technique, but Chopin's achievement was to elevate the concept to the level of musical masterpieces

no 1 in C major
no 2 in A minor
no 6 in E flat minor
no 10 in A flat major
no 11 in E flat major
no 12 in C minor

ARIEL LANYI
Ariel Lanyi made his orchestral debut at the age of seven and pursued his studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music before becoming a full scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He has given numerous recitals in London, Paris, Rome, Prague and Brussels, has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Israel Symphony Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and has participated in festivals including the Miami Piano Festival, the Ravello Festival, and the Young Prague Festival. Ariel is also a keen chamber musician. In 2017 he was awarded first prize at the Dudley International Piano Competition, and in 2018 the first prize in the Grand Prix Animato in Paris. He became an Imogen Cooper Music Trust Scholarship Holder in 2019 and is a recipient of the Munster Trust Mark James Star Award and the Senior Award of the Hattori Foundation.

JOSEPH HAYDN (1732?1809) Sonata in C minor Hob. XVI/20 (1780)
1. Moderato 2. Andante con moto 3. Finale. Allegro
Haydn dedicated this sonata to his students Marianna and Caterina Auenbrugger, daughters of a distinguished Viennese physician. Both were talented amateur musicians and Marianna was a highly regarded composer. It is the first of Haydn's sonatas to embrace the expressive possibilities offered by the fortepiano with dramatic contrasts of mood stylistically marking the composer's Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) period.


ALEXANDER SCRIABIN (1872?1915) Sonata no 3 in F sharp minor op 23 (1898)
1. Drammàtico 2. Allegretto 3. Andante 4. Presto con fuoco
Born to Muscovite nobility, Scriabin initially followed the family tradition of a military career, before making his debut as a pianist in 1894. Although a composer rooted in the Romanic style first of Chopin and later Schoenberg, his atonal and dissonant modernism resulted in him using ever more radical means to express Romantic ideas. In the 1890s he embraced mysticism and became Russia's leading Symbolist composer. He described this sonata as a sea of emotions evoking the states of being.


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