Yaron Kohlberg Piano Recital
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Mon Mar 31, 19:00 - Mon Mar 31, 21:00
Odeion Auditorium
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YARON KOHLBERG PIANO RECITAL
31 March 2025 | Odeion | 19:00
Engage, inspire, connect.
These are the pillars guiding world-renowned pianist and Steinway artist Yaron Kohlberg every day. Kohlberg ignites audiences through traditional and non -traditional performances, develops creative programming, and supports emerging artists, making him a leader and innovator in the world of classical music. While those crowds are often found in famous venues (Carnegie Hall, the Kremlin, Beijing’s Forbidden City, Kennedy Center, and Mexico City’s Bellas Artes being some of the iconic auditoriums he has performed as soloist), Kohlberg reaches beyond the concert-going public to engage new audiences with classical music in atypical places – a street piano in Singapore, a hotel lobby in Marrakech, a community centre in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
Kohlberg often combines storytelling and transcriptions of popular tunes with traditional classical masterpieces, thrilling audiences and critics with his virtuosity and unique quality of sound. Winner of 10 international prizes and the 2007 silver medalist of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Kohlberg is President of Piano Cleveland, the organizing body of the CIPC. Original programming he has co-created includes the upcoming Artist Development Program, an enrichment and professional development program for top-tier young pianists; The Listening Series, an in-person and virtual event that takes audiences from the couch to the concert hall as musicians take a deep dive into their work; and Virtu(al)oso, a global piano competition that raised more than $75,000 to support pianists during the pandemic. Articles about his creative ideas have been featured in several of the best classical music publications, including Pianist Magazine, Musical America, and The World of Piano Competitions magazine. He has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestras, the Beijing and Chengdu Symphony Orchestras, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, and the Palermo Teatro Massimo Orchestra in Italy, working with conductors Thomas Sondergard, Jahja Ling, Roman Kofman, En Shao, Steven Byess and Ryan McAdams. He has also collaborated with the Limón Dance company, cellists Toke Møldrup and Nicholas Altstaedt, pianists Yeol Eum Son and Dong Hyek Lim, choreographer and dancer Jin Xing, rock star Shlomi Shaban, composer Alexey Kurbatov and the Ariel String Quartet.
In addition to co-leading Piano Cleveland, performing, and serving on international competition juries, Kohlberg also lectures and conducts masterclasses at leading institutions around the world.
PROGRAMME:
Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8, Op.13, ‘Pathetique’
Schubert: Impromptu Op. 90 No. 2
Schumann: Arabeske Op. 18
Debussy: Arabesque No. 1
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 3, Op. 28
Rachmaninov: Prelude in C sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2
Ren Guang: Clouds chasing the Moon
Yaron Kohlberg: Improvisation
The Beatles: Blackbird
Shifrin/Kurbatov: Mission Impossible