Yevgeny Korolyov (Piano)
Yevgeny Korolyov is an extraordinary phenomenon on
the international music scene. Without the use of any “external
effects”, Korolyov convinces his public through an enormous spiritual
understanding of the works he performs and in whose service he puts
the wide range of his abilities as an artist and interpreter.
At the Central School of Music in Moscow, the musician studied
under Anna Artobolevskaya as well as with Heinrich Neuhaus and Maria Yudina. He
continued his studies at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire under
Lev Oborin and Lev Naumov. In 1978 he moved to Hamburg, where he currently
holds a professorship at the Academy of Music and Drama.
Yevgeny Korolyov won the Grand Prix at the Clara Haskil Competition
in Montreux-Vevey (1977) as well as several other prizes at
international competitions including the Johann Sebastian Bach competition
in Leipzig (1968), the Van Cliburn Competition (1973) and
the Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Toronto (1985).
His repertoire ranges from Bach, the Viennese classics and
the works of Schubert, Chopin and Debussy to the modern classics such
as Messiaen and Ligeti.
But the musician has a special affinity with Bach, and performed
the complete Well-Tempered Clavier in Moscow at the age
of seventeen, followed by Clavierьbung and the Art of
the Fugue. His recording of the latter was highly esteemed by
the composer Gyцrgy Ligeti, who said that “If there was only one CD
I could take with me to an uninhabited island, I would choose
Korolyov’s recording of Bach, because even when left pining away with hunger and
thirst, I would still listen to this recording again and again, even to my
last breath.”
Yevgeny Korolyov has performed at the world’s great concert venues,
among them the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg,
Cologne’s Philharmonie, Dusseldorf’s Tonhalle, the Gewandhaus
in Leipzig, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Conservatorio
Verdi in Milan, the Theвtre des Champs elysees in Paris and
the Teatro Olimpico in Rome.
He has given guest performances at numerous festivals such as
the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Ludwigsburger SchloЯfestspiele,
the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Montreux Festival,
the Kuhmo Festival (Finland), the Glenn Gould Festival
in Groningen, the Chopin Festival in Warsaw, the Budapest
Spring Festival and the Settembre Musica in Turin. Korolyov
is also a regular guest at the Ferrara Musica festival
in Italy and the festival of the International Bach Academy
Festival in Stuttgart. In May 2005, Korolyov performed the
Goldberg-Variations at the Salzburg Festival which was dedicated
to baroque music. Korolyov’s recent highlights include recitals at
the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Bachwoche Ansbach and the Dresdner
Musikfestspiele as well as in Moscow, Budapest, Luxemburg, Brussels, Lyon,
Milan and Turin. He has also toured to Japan. His recital featuring Bach’s
Goldberg-Variations at the Bachfest Leipzig (2008) was
recorded by EuroArts for a DVD and by NHK Tokyo for TV transmission.
In the 2009-10 season the musician performed the
Goldberg-Variations at the Bachfest Montreal, the Alte Oper
Frankfurt and the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg.
As a passionate chamber musician, Korolyov performs with Natalia Gutman,
Mischa Maisky, the Auryn Quartet, the Keller Quartet and
the Prazбk Quartet. In piano duets, he often performs with his wife
Ljupka Hadzigeorgieva.
Yevgeny Korolyov has recorded for TACET, HANSSLER CLASSIC, PROFIL and
the label of the Hessischer Rundfunk. His recordings of works by Bach
elicited an enormous response from the international music press.
Numerous critics count his CDs amongst the most important Bach recordings
in history. Recently PROFIL released a CD with Piano Sonatas by Haydn,
while TACET released a CD with Mazurkas by Chopin.
In November 2010 a CD with works by Bach for piano and piano duo
together with Ljupka Hadzigeorgieva arranged by Kurtбg, Liszt and Korolyov.
During the season 2010-11 concert season he will be performing
in Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Paris (Theвtre des Champs-elysees),
Budapest, Hamburg and Stuttgart.
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