Pavel Kolesnikov, pianist
Acclaimed pianist Pavel Kolesnikov was born in Siberia into a family of scientists. Now based in London, he is celebrated for his imaginative, thought-provoking programming, which offers the listener a fresh, often unexpected perspective on familiar pieces. He is an avid ensemble player, and regularly performs in piano duo with Samson Tsoy. His “crusading vision” won him the Critic’s Circle Young Talent Award in 2019, and his sixth album, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, was released in 2020.
Photo: Eva Vermandel
Very few pianists of Kolesnikov's generation share his abundance of intelligence, sensitivity, musicality, imagination, and sheer instrumental masteryGramophone
Pavel Kolesnikov at Aldeburgh Festival
Celestial Navigation (after Joseph Cornell)
“Light is a wave and so is sound. A piano is a boat, a spaceship, a dreamy discoverer of wonder worlds... this performance is an ode to the night sky, to the vastness of space, to that pure silent light that travels from the other side of the universe to reach an eye, yours or mine, and to make us wonder.” Pavel Kolesnikov
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
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Two Pianos | Bach and Shostakovich
Acclaimed piano duo Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy interweave music by Bach and Shostakovich, in the first of two Aldeburgh Festival performances created especially for the historic Jubilee Hall.
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall
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