Edition Ruhr Piano Festival, Vol. 40: Debuts and a World Premiere for Alfred Brendel (Live Recording 2021)

Featuring

Eva Gevorgyan
Roman Borisov
Pallavi Mahidhara
Andrej Bielow
Adrian Brendel
Kit Armstrong

Liang Dai (A Bu)
Alexander Scriabin
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Anatoly Lyadov
Clara Schumann
Johannes Brahms
Nikolai Kapustin
Frank Churchill
Kengo Nakamura
Fats Waller
Keith Jarrett

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Performer Biography

A Bu, whose real name is Dai Liang and was born in 1999 in Beijing, started learning piano at age four and was a scholarship holder of the Klavier-Festival Ruhr in 2019.

Performer Biography

Eva Gevorgyan, a scholarship holder of the Klavier-Festival Ruhr in 2020, is a student at the Central Music School for Gifted Children at the Moscow Conservatory.

Performer Biography

Kit Armstrong, described by the New York Times as a "brilliant pianist," combines a deep study of music with other arts, natural sciences, and mathematics.

Performer Biography

Indian-American pianist Pallavi Mahidhara made her orchestral debut at the age of 10 at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago.

Performer Biography

Roman Borisov, born in 2002, has been studying at the Novosibirsk Conservatoire Music College since 2010 and has performed throughout Russia and internationally.

Composition History

Kit Armstrong's Trio for piano, violin, and cello, titled 'fast zu ernst,' was commissioned by the Ruhr Piano Festival for Alfred Brendel's 90th birthday and is a world premiere on this album.