STEINWAY SPIRIOCAST
Marianna Shirinyan
Live from Steinway Spirio Studio in Hamburg
Premiere: THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2024
10 AM PT | 1 PM ET | 19 CET
Award-winning Armenian-Danish pianist Marianna Shirinyan performs a recital live from the Steinway Spirio Studio in Hamburg.
PROGRAMME
CHOPIN
Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47
RAVEL
Gaspard de la Nuit: Ondine
SCHUBERT
Impromptu in E flat major, D 899 No. 2
SCRIABIN
Three Pieces Op. 45
I. Feuillet d'Album
II. Poëme fantasque
III. Prélude
SCHUBERT
Impromptu in G flat major, D 899 No. 3
CHOPIN
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Program approximately 50 minutes.
Armenian-born Marianna Shirinyan is one of the most creative and sought after pianists in Europe today. Her vibrant and virtuosic musicianship puts her in demand, both as soloist and as chamber musician. Shirinyan plays with great sensitivity, understanding, technical brilliance and beauty of tone, which allows her to offer a wide range of repertoire. Her love for the music and her joy in sharing it with a larger audience are apparent in her performances.
She has received Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s prestigious P2 award for her contribution to Danish music life and the critics prize of the association of Danish critics. She is a frequent guest at a string of international music festivals, among them the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Bodensee Festival, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, MDR Summer Music Festival, Festspillene in Bergen.
Marianna Shirinyan has garnered a reputation as a leading pianist of her generation through solo appearances with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestras, Potsdammer Kammerakademie, Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, among others. She enjoyed collaborations with conductors such as Andrey Boreyko, Lawrence Foster, Zoltan Kocsis, Antonello Manacorda, Jun Märkl, Daniel Raiskin, Lan Shui, John Storgårds, Thomas Søndergård, Krysztof Urbanski and Joshua Weilerstein.
Marianna Shirinyan has a large discography. One of her later releases, the Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra by Louis Glass which she recorded with the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz under the baton of Maestro Daniel Raiskin was awarded the P2 prize of the Danish radio. Marianna’s latest releases, Chopin's 4 Ballades and 4 Scherzi as well as Rachmaninov Suite for two pianos recorded with her former student Dominik Wizjan and released on Orchid classics, has been highly praised by the reviewers and listeners alike.
Marianna is a professor of piano at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and guest professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, in addition to curating several chamber music festivals across Europe.
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