noisenight175: pavel kolesnikov
London, Lafayette
About the Event
Explore the beauty of piano music at Lafayette in London, where masterworks from Johann Sebastian Bach come to life in this incredible performance.
Pavel Kolesnikov performs Bach's Goldberg Variations for solo piano at an intimate performance in King's Cross bar and club, Lafayette.
Pavel Kolesnikov reprises his unique interpretation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations after 5‐star reviews from The Guardian, The Arts Desk and The Telegraph.
Widely regarded as one of the most ambitious pieces for keyboard, Pavel's 2020 recording garnered widespread critical acclaim. Heralded for his ‘intensely personal interpretations, often daring in their originality’ (Critics’ Circle), expect to experience Bach’s iconic piece like never before.
The London‐based pianist was born in Siberia into a family of scientists. He studied both the piano and violin for ten years, before concentrating solely on the piano.
He has studied at Moscow State Conservatory with Sergey Dorensky, at London’s Royal College of Music with Norma Fisher and at Brussels’ Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with Maria João Pires thanks to the generous support of Mr Christopher D Budden, the RCM Scholarship Foundation and Hattori Foundation. Pavel is the recipient of the Milstein Medal and is the RCM Benjamin Britten Piano Fellow, and was a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists from 2014 to 2016.
Celebrated for his imaginative, thought‐provoking programming which offers the listener a fresh, often unexpected perspective on familiar pieces, Pavel has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, as part of the international Piano Series, Carnegie Hall in New York, and Berlin's Konzerthaus, the Louvre and Salle Gaveau in Paris, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. In recent years he also performed at La Roque d’Antheron festival, the Musiq3 Festival in Brussels, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, and the Aldeburgh Festival, among others.
An avid ensemble player, Kolesnikov regularly performs in piano duo with Samson Tsoy and collaborates with other musicians such as cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, the Hermes String Quartet and the Calidore String Quartet. In 2019 he performed the complete cycle of Brahms violin and viola sonatas with Lawrence Power. He formed Trio Aventure with Elina Buksha and Aurelien Pascal.
Kolesnikov records for Hyperion, with repertoire ranging from rarely heard harpsichord pieces by Louis Couperin to Tchaikovsky's The Seasons. His Chopin Mazurkas album won Diapason d'Or de l'annee, one of world's most prestigious awards in the area of recording. His 6th album, Bach's Goldberg Variations, was released in Autumn 2020. He collaborated with legendary Belgian dancer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker on a new choreographic work based on the Goldberg Variations which was premiered in August 2020 at the Wiener Festwochen and is currently touring the world.
In 2019, together with Samson Tsoy, Kolesnikov started Ragged Music Festival at the Ragged School Museum, former “ragged school” of Dr Barnardo in London’s East End. In the same year Kolesnikov was honoured with the Critics’ Circle Young Talent Award 2019 for piano, praised for his “intensely personal interpretations, often daring in their originality” and his “crusading vision”.
Practical Information
Please note that all tickets to this event are standing by default. This event is strictly 18+.
7pm: doors open
7.30pm: last entry
8pm: pavel kolesnikov
Program
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Goldberg Variations
Artists
| Piano: | Pavel Kolesnikov |
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Address
Lafayette, 11 Goods Way, London, United Kingdom — Google Maps
