ARTIST MANAGEMENTJune 12--19, 2010
record Mozart Concertos; Odense Denmark
Record: Chopin Sonata No. 1 (Denmark)
July 8, 2010
Poulenc Double Concerto/Mendelssohn Double Concerto in A flat Major
Manchester, Vermont, with Konstantin Soukhovetski;
Manchester Music Festival Orchestra
July 15, 2010
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
Katonah, NY; all-Chopin Concert
August 26--September 20, 2010 South Africa tour:
August 26, 2010: solo recital Bloemfontein
August 27: solo recital Hermanus
August 28: solo recital Cape Town
September 1 & 2: soloist with Johannesburg Philharmonic, Dvorak Piano Concerto
September 3: solo recital Pretoria
September 4: solo recital Johannesburg
September 5: Workshop for students, Pretoria
September 7: solo recital Brits
September 9: solo recital Knysa
September 10: Capetown, Master classes at the Stellenbosch Conservatoire
September 12: solo recital, Stellenbosch Conservatoire
September 14: solo recital Durban
September 15 & 16: Port Elizabeth, master classes
September 19: soloist with East Cape Symphony Orchestra (Port
Elizabeth); Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
September 20: solo recital Recital Port Elizabeth
September 23: soloist with KZNPO, Chopin: Concerto No. 2
October 20, 2010, Oslo, Norway; soloist, Norwegian Radio Orchestra;
world premiere of Ruders Piano Concerto No. 2
October 21 & 22, record Ruders: Piano Concerto No. 2
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Thomas Sondergard, conductor
October 25, 7:30 pm, solo recital Taastrup, Denmark
October 24--29, 2010
Record Mozart Concertos with Odense Symphony Orchestra; Odense, Denmark
November 7, 2010
Solo recital: Darien, Connecticut
November 14, 2010
Solo recital: Chester, Connecticut
November 20, 2010
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, Lafayette, Indiana
January 23, 2011
3 pm; Port Washington, NY
solo recital
February 19, 2011
Symphony Space, New York City
YCA Marathon
March, 2011
Solo recital tour: Denmark, Sweden, Norway;
Record Mozart Concertos, Odense, Denmark (Film solo DVD)
April 20, 2011
Washington DC
solo recital
September 8 & 9, 2011
Mozart Piano Concertos
Odense Symphony Orchestra
Simon Gaudenz, conductor
September 12-16, 2011
Record Mozart Concertos
Odense, Denmark
October 4, 2011, solo recital
Tuesday Evening Concert Series, Charlottesville, VA
April 30-May 4, 2012
Record Mozart Piano Concertos
Odense Symphony Orchestra
Simon Gaudenz, conductor
Primakov performs Scriabin Sonata No. 4 on YouTube
Chopin: Concerto No. 2, Movement 3
BRIDGE 9278
Tchaikovsky: April, from "The Seasons"
BRIDGE 9283
Tchaikovsky: June, from "The Seasons"
BRIDGE 9283
Primakov blog thread at Bridgerecords.com
Since the release of his recording of the Chopin Piano Concertos in 2008, Vassily Primakov has been hailed as a pianist of world class importance. Gramophone wrote that “Primakov's empathy with Chopin's spirit could hardly be more complete,” and the American Record Guide stated: "In every piece his touch is perfect. Since Gilels, how many pianists have the right touch? In Chopin, no one currently playing and recording sounds as good as this! This is a great Chopin pianist.” Music Web-International called Primakov's Chopin Concertos CD "one of the great Chopin recordings of recent times. These are performances of extraordinary power and beauty.” In 1999, as a teen-aged prizewinner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Primakov was praised by Donald Rosenberg of the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "How many pianists can make a line sing as the 19-year-old Moscow native did on this occasion? Every poignant phrase took ethereal wing. Elsewhere the music soared with all of the turbulence and poetic vibrancy it possesses. We will be hearing much from this remarkable musician.”
Vassily Primakov was born in Moscow in 1979. His first piano studies were with his mother, Marina Primakova. He entered Moscow’s Central Special Music School at the age of eleven as a pupil of Vera Gornostaeva. At seventeen, after a summer at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, he came to New York to pursue studies at the Juilliard School with the noted pianist, Jerome Lowenthal. At Juilliard Mr. Primakov won the William Petschek Piano Recital Award, which presented his debut recital at Alice Tully Hall. While a student at Juilliard, aided by a Susan W. Rose Career Grant, he won both the Silver Medal and the Audience Prize in the 2002 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition. Later that year Primakov won First Prize in the 2002 Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions, an award which presented him in solo and concerto performances throughout the USA. In 2007 he was named the Classical Recording Foundation’s “Young Artist of the Year.” In 2009, his Chopin Mazurkas recording was named “Best of the Year” by National Public Radio. Vassily Primakov’s recordings for Bridge Records include: Beethoven Sonatas (BRIDGE 9251); the Chopin Concertos (BRIDGE 9278); Tchaikovsky: The Seasons and Grand Sonata (BRIDGE 9283); Chopin: 21 Mazurkas (BRIDGE 9289); Schumann: Carnaval, Kreisleriana, Arabeske (BRIDGE 9300); Dvorak: Piano Concerto, Op. 33; Poetic Tone-Pictures, Op. 85 (BRIDGE 9309); and Vassily Primakov plays Brahms, Chopin & Scriabin (BRIDGE 9315), Primakov's first film, issued on DVD. Upcoming releases include an all-Schubert CD, the three Chopin Sonatas, and the first volume of Primakov's "Complete Mozart Piano Concertos" cycle, performed with the Odense Symphony Orchestra, Scott Yoo, conductor.
"The audience was captivated by Primakov's rendition of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #3 in D minor. Shouts of "bravo" were heard all over the standing audience that packed Long Center."
– Journal & Courier, Lafayette, Indiana
"High praise from Van Cliburn. 'Prodigious technique, really wonderful,' Mr. Cliburn said after listening to Primakov's performance of 'La Valse' with his eyes closed, a look of sheer rapture on his face." – The Washington Times
"Vassily Primakov, the young Moscow-born pianist, brought fiery intensity to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor (Op. 35), which followed on the program. Hunched over the piano, he caressed the lyrical, elegiac passages and illuminated the spiky undertones coursing through this theatrically high-spirited, burlesque framework." – The New York Times
"Primakov gave a fiery performance of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, with bold, expressive phrasing and dramatic commitment that brought the audience to its feet."
– Jeremy Eichler, The New York Times
Vassily Primakov on Bridge Records, Inc.
