Eduard Kunz, pianoSave the Date! Saturday, September 28, 2013, 7:00 PM
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Program: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Gaspard de la Nuit IntermissionIgnacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) Nocturne in B-flat, Op. 16, No. 4 Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth |
 "Kunz was sensational. His technique and delivery were out of this world."The Herald, Scotland, 2011 |
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Named one of ten of the ten great pianists of tomorrow by the BBC Music Magazine, Eduard Kunz has performed and broadcast frequently with many major European orchestras, including, among many others, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pomeranian Philharmonic, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and the Braunschweig Symphony Orchestra.
He has appeared in recital at Wigmore Hall in London, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Louvre in Paris, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, among many other venues. His performances have been broadcast on major classical stations, including BBC Radio 3, Radio France, Deutschland Radio Kultur, and Orpheus Radio.
New projects include debuts with the Russian National Philharmonic and Russian Symphony orchestras, solo appearances in the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, recital tours of Italy, Spain, Japan and Poland, and chamber music recitals with such musicians as Sol Gabetta, Julian Rachlin, Boris Andrianov and Alexandru Tomescu. Other collaborations include piano duos with Alexander Ghindin and Andrei Diev and a special Scarlatti project with bayanist (accordionist) Yuri Medyanik.
Mr. Kunz had one of the most successful competition careers of his generation, winning 13 first prizes at major contests, including the Grand Prix of the Enescu Competition in Bucharest and gold medals at both the New Orleans and Paderewski competitions. Other awards included a silver medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians in London, awards from the Hattori Foundation, and the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe prize.
Teaching younger colleagues is Mr. Kunz’s passion, and he will conduct a series of master classes in Italy as well as in Spain, the U.S. and Russia. He is a guest professor at the Schlern International Music Festival in South Tirol.
Born in Omsk, Siberia, Eduard studied with Mikhail 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 late Mark Ray.
Named among tomorrow’s 10 great pianists by the BBC Music Magazine, Eduard Kunz has performed and broadcast frequently with many major European orchestras including BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The Hallé and The Ulster Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and London Musici, 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, Szczecin, Olstyn and Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestras, George Enescu Philharmonic, Braunschweig Symphony, Russian National Orchestra and the Orchestra of Moscow Capella with conductors such as Tugan Sokhiev, Alexander Joel, Christian Mandeal, Edward Gardner, Gerard Schwarz, Lothar Koenigs, Garry Walker, Clark Rundell, Mark Stephenson, Alejandro Posada, Pavel Kotla, Josep Caballe Domenech, Warcislav Kunc, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Barry Wordsworth, Piotr Sulkovsky, David Angus and Mikhail Khokhlov amongst others.
Recital appearances include the Wigmore Hall in London, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Louvre in Paris, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Winterthur hall in Barcelona, Big Hall of Moscow Conservatoire the prestigious Duszniki and December Nights festivals, Festivals of Como de Garda , Grieg (Oslo), Al Bustan (Lebanon), New York Keyboard Festival and St Magnus (Scotland) and City of London Festivals.
Eduard’s performances have been broadcast on major classical stations including BBC Radio 3, Radio France , Radio Rai, RNE , Deutschland Radio Kultur and Orpheus. As well as on the leading classical internet broadcaster of a new generation- ParaClassics.
His stage parners include Sol Gabetta, Boris Andrianov, Vagram Sarajian, Andrey Baranov, Julian Rachlin and Alexandru Tomescu. Other collaborations include piano duos with Alexander Ghindin and Andrei Diev and with bayanist Yuri Medyanik.
He has been reinvited by every venue where he performed last year and his 13/14 season will include debuts with Warsaw and Krakow Philharmonic Orchestras under Stanislaw Skrowaczevski, Lodz Philharmonic in Musicverein Vienna, Armenian Philharmonic , Bucarest Symphony Orchestra, both St Petersburg Orchestra of State Capella and St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, tour of all Beethoven sonatas with Alex Tomescu and solo recitals in Atlanta and Virgina in US, Erevan’s Khachaturyan hall, Milan’s Sala Verdi, Oslo’s Aula, Tokyo’s Musashino Shimin Bunka Kaikan, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall and for the Dubai Concert Series.
Eduard awards include 13 first prizes of major contests including Grand Prix of Enescu Competition in Bucharest and Gold Medals at both New Orleans and Paderewski competitions. Other awards included Silver medal from The Worshipful Company of Musicians in London, awards from Hattori and Musical Foundations, Dame Myra Hess award and Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe as well as Spivakov Foundation and the “Richter” award from the Rostropovich Foundation in Moscow.
Eduard is a Moscow Philharmonic Society Artist, Verbier Festival laureate, a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and a Global Yamaha Artist.
