Denis Kozhukhin makes debut with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and gives trio recitals in Italy with Kavakos

Denis Kozhukhin

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March 7th, 2013

This month, Denis Kozhukhin travels to the UK to make his debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Kozhukhin will give three performances of Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 with conductor Vasily Petrenko, at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool on 13 and 14 March, and at Nottingham Royal Concert Hall on 15 March.

The following week, Kozhukhin joins Leonidas Kavakos and Patrick Demenga for three trio concerts in Italy. The trio will perform Brahms Piano Trios Nos. 1, 2 and 3 at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (22 March), Salone Estense in Varese (24 March) and at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan (25 March).

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Brahms: Fantasies No. 1 in D minor

In the Press

“In Beethoven anniversary year, there will probably be many more “Moonlight”s, meaning the Sonata, than the real thing (though we’ve been lucky to see the crescent in close conjunction with Venus these past two nights). Not many pianists would dare to place it at the beginning of a programme. Denis Kozhukhin’s paradoxically no-nonsense poetry meant that a constant sense of motion culminated in the whirlwind of the finale, a steady move towards implosion mirrored in the piano transcription of Ravel’s La Valse at the end of the programme. In between came perfection in the form of pure song from Schubert and Grieg.”

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