Varvara

Piano

Management: Worldwide

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Born in Moscow, Russia, Varvara studied at the Gnessin State Musical College and continued her studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Mikhail Voskressensky. She later moved to Hamburg for further study with Evgeni Koroliov. In 2006 she was awarded at the Leipzig Bach Competition and in 2012 she was launched onto the international scene after winning the first Prize of the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich. Varvara is interested in any expression of arts and her rich repertoire includes almost all periods and styles, from Bach and Händel to Stravinsky and Arvo Pärt.

Varvara has quickly established a remarkable musical reputation performing with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras including Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Wiener KammerOrchester, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, SWR Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre National de Lille, Tchaikovky Symphony Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, performing under the baton of Valery Gergiev, David Zinman, Cornelius Meister, Clemens Schuldt, Yaron Traub, and Vladimir Fedosseyev. As a recitalist, she has offered numerous concerts in Lucerne, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Barcelona, Alicante, Lyon, Saint Petersburg, Prague, Girona, Hamburg, Valencia, Lausanne, Zurich and Dortmund, among others.

In the 2017/2018 season Varvara performs with Galicia Symphony Orchestra and Eliahu Inbal, Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra and Konstantin Chudovsky in Chile, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and Valery Gergiev in Lingotto in Torino, Castilla and León Symphony Orchestra and Alexander Polyanichko. She will offer recitals at Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Sendesaal Bremen, Rachmaninov Hall in Moscow, Sociedad Filarmónica in Bilbao, Mariinsky Teathre in Saint Petersburg, Sociedad de Conciertos in Alicante, Palau de la Música in Barcelona and Radio France Festival in Montpellier, among others. In December 2017, she is going on tour in South America.

After her acclaimed Mozart and Handel albums, a new album about Liszt Sonata, recorded live at Paris Philharmonie will shortly be launched by DisCamera and available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon and Google Play Music.

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Repertoire

Johann Sebastian Bach

Piano Concerto in F minor BWV 1056

Piano Concerto in A major BWV 1055

Piano Concerto in D minor BWV 1052

Béla Bartók

Piano Concerto no. 3 in E major Sz. 119

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto no. 1 in C major Op. 15

Piano Concerto no. 2 in B-flat major Op. 19

Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor Op. 37

Piano Concerto no. 4 in G major, Op. 58

Piano Concerto no. 5 in E-flat major Op. 73

Johannes Brahms

Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor Op. 15

Piano Concerto no. 2 in B-flat major Op. 83

Frédéric Chopin

Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor Op. 11

Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor Op. 21

Aleksandr Glazunov

Piano Concerto no. 2 in B major, Op. 100

Franz Liszt

Piano Concerto no. 1 in E-flat major

Franck Martin

Concierto para piano núm. 2

Felix Mendelssohn

Piano Concerto no.1 in G minor Op.25

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto no. 12 in A major K. 414

Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major K. 453

Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor K.466

Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major K. 467

Piano Concerto no. 23 in A major K. 488

Piano Concerto no. 24 in C minor K. 491

Piano Concerto no. 27 in B-flat major K. 595

Serguei Prokofiev

Piano Concerto no. 1 in D-flat major Op. 10

Piano Concerto no. 3 in C major Op. 26

Sergei Rachmaninov

Piano Concerto no. 1 in F-sharp minor Op. 1

Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor Op. 18

Piano Concerto no. 3 in D minor Op. 30

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43

Maurice Ravel

Concierto para piano en Sol mayor

Camile Saint-Saëns

Conceirto para piano núm 2 en Sol menor, Op. 22

Robert Schumann

Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54

Aleksandr Scriabin

Prometheus Op. 60

Dmitri Shostakovich

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor Op. 35

Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor Op. 23

Piano Concerto no. 3 in E-flat major Op. 75 (Allegro brillante)

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Reviews

El Periódico

"Con una mezcla de sutileza y pasión, la pianista moscovita se ganó la admiración de su público."

Badische Neueste Nachrichten

“Un concierto magistral en la Festspielhaus de Baden Baden con Varvara. (…) La manera en que Varvara desarrolla la Sonata de piano de Liszt en si menor es impresionante, una obra maestra del romanticismo, llena de dolor, ira y pasión, con chispas de esperanza."

Classica

"Su técnica, sólida pero nunca ostentosa, su sonido, parecido a un canto puro, su marcado gusto por los clásicos: todo esto junto hace renacer, cuando se escucha, la memoria de Richter.”

Classica

"Su recital de Mozart, maravillosamente desarrollado y lleno de tonalidades menores, convence por la atención principal a la claridad polifónica, el rechazo del sentimentalismo y la tensión expresiva".

Revista Musical Catalana

"[...] la joven pianista rusa Varvara demostró no solo su técnica precisa, sino su interpretación honesta, moderada y profundamente inteligente y expresiva, y siempre cuidadosa con el sonido y el balance. Estuvo particularmente lúcida en el tercer movimiento, siguiendo la emoción del tema "Allegro scherzando" y concluyendo con gracia y determinación el Concierto para piano núm. 2 Op. 18 de Sergei Rachmaninov."

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