We present a selection of the best evenings of piano music in February at the Scriabin Museum!
8 February – Maria Kalyanova
On 8 February at 16:00 a concert by pianist Maria Kalyanova will take place in the Scriabin Museum's music salon. She will perform works by F. Schubert and M. Ravel.
Maria Kalyanova was born in Moscow. She graduated from the Academic Music College at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Honored Teacher T.N. Rakova. She is currently a 5th-year student at the Moscow Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky in the class of Professor R.A. Ostrovsky.
Laureate of the XXII International “Citta di Barletta” Competition, Italy (1st prize – solo, Grand Prix – piano ensemble four hands), XVI International “Euterpe” Competition, Italy, Corato (1st prize – solo, Grand Prix – chamber ensemble), IX International Open Youth Piano Competition of the Barents Region dedicated to composer Gennady Vavilov – Kostomuksha (1st prize), laureate of the 2023 competitive audition “A.N. Scriabin Scholarship”. She performs frequently in Moscow, Kirov, Perm, Tuapse, Minsk and other cities in Russia and abroad. Scholarship holder of the Sound Out foundation.
Information by phone: +7 (499) 241-19-01
Tickets: https://scriabinmuseum.ru/poster/7158/
Attend the event using the Pushkin Card
12 February – Musical Toys (Darya Ionkina)
On 12 February at 19:00 a concert titled “Musical Toys”, prepared in cooperation with the Moscow Conservatory, will take place in the Scriabin Museum's music salon. Darya Ionkina (piano) will perform works by W.A. Mozart and P. Tchaikovsky.
Darya Ionkina is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory (class of Professor Elena Rudolfovna Richter) and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she studied under Professor Naum Grubert. She has participated in concerts as a soloist, as part of chamber ensembles, and as an accompanist, collaborating with many orchestras.
From 2016 to 2018 she completed an assistant-internship at the Moscow Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky. She has taken masterclasses with renowned musicians: Dmitry Bashkirov, Valery Kuleshov, Boris Petrushansky, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Asaf Zohar, Enrico Pace, Epifanio Comis, Natalia Trull, Roberto Plano, Brian Wallikin.
Darya actively participates in various musical projects (one of them is the St. Petersburg House of Music program “River of Talents”). In 2018 she became a soloist of the St. Petersburg House of Music and took part in a Piano Marathon at the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall. She participated in the XXXII International Music Festival “January Music Evenings” (Brest, Belarus). 2023 marked her debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, USA (Weill Recital Hall). Darya Ionkina is a laureate of many international competitions, among them “Viva-Music USA” International Competition of Classical Music (2023, New York, USA, 1st prize), IV International S. Neigauz Piano Competition (2021, Chelyabinsk, Russia, 3rd prize), International Forum of Pianists dedicated to S. Prokofiev (2021, Moscow, Russia, 2nd prize), and others.
She currently works at the Moscow Conservatory and maintains an active concert career.
Information by phone: +7 (499) 241-19-01
Tickets: https://scriabinmuseum.ru/poster/7176/
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15 February – Darya Bogdanova
On 15 February at 17:00 a piano music evening will take place in the Scriabin Museum's music salon. Laureate of international competitions, pianist Darya Bogdanova will perform works by L. van Beethoven, J. Brahms, F. Chopin, P. Hindemith, A. Scriabin, S. Prokofiev.
Darya Bogdanova is a 5th-year student at the Moscow Conservatory in the classes of Professors E.I. Kuznetsova (piano), I.V. Osipova (accompaniment), and A.Z. Bonduryansky (chamber ensemble).
In 2020 she graduated with honors from the Academic Music College at the Moscow Conservatory (class of N.A. Shokhireva). That period was formative for her intense artistic and professional growth. During those years her talent was recognized at several international performance competitions: “A.N. Scriabin Scholarship” (2017, Moscow), IX International Competition of Young Pianists and Accompaniment Festival named after V.Yu. Villuain (2018, Nizhny Novgorod, 1st degree), XI International Competition named after S.I. Savshinsky (2020, Saint Petersburg, 1st prize), among others. Darya also participated in important events of her college, various concerts and festivals. In 2017, by invitation of the Russian Spiritual and Cultural Orthodox Center in Paris, she and her teacher N.A. Shokhireva took part in the concert “Music of the Symbolist Era”. Darya received a special Yamaha prize at the VII Open All-Russian Competition of Young Piano Performers “Merzlyakovka Invites Friends” (Moscow).
Having entered the Moscow Conservatory, Darya continued to participate in competitions, becoming a laureate of the II degree at the International Online Piano Competition named after Lev Vlassenko (2021) and a 1st-degree laureate at the International Youth Music Competition dedicated to I.F. Stravinsky (2023).
She regularly delights audiences with solo concerts and actively participates in the musical life of the Moscow Conservatory, continuing to develop her artistry and share it with the public.
Information by phone: +7 (499) 241-19-01
Tickets: https://scriabinmuseum.ru/poster/7165/
Attend the event using the Pushkin Card.
15 February – Pianists of the Children's Music School of the F. Chopin Moscow State College of Musical Performance
Concert Hall of the Scriabin Museum
On 15 February at 17:00 the annual recital of the piano department of the Children's Music School of the Moscow State College of Musical Performance named after Frédéric Chopin will take place on the stage of the Concert Hall of the House of Scriabin.
This is the traditional annual piano students' concert of the Children's Music School of the Moscow State College of Musical Performance named after F. Chopin titled “I Want to Become a Musician!”, which for many years has been held in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky and in the Memorial Museum of A.N. Scriabin.
The concert participants are laureates of major music competitions and festivals: Moscow Mayor's Grants in the field of culture and art, the All-Russian competition “Young Talents of Russia”, the TV competition for young musicians “The Nutcracker”.
Young musicians will perform works for piano by F. Chopin, F. Liszt, E. Grieg, S.V. Rachmaninoff and other Russian and foreign classics.
Come and support our young pianists!
Free admission with prior registration: https://mgkmi.timepad.ru/event/3216521/
18 February – Anna Alekseeva-Messner
On 18 February at 19:00 a solo concert by the well-known young pianist Anna Alekseeva-Messner will take place on the stage of the Concert Hall “House of Scriabin”. She will present works by J. Brahms, F. Chopin and A. N. Scriabin.
"When she plays, there is a sense of direct speech, a minimal gap between composer and interpreter" – Piano Forum magazine
Anna Alekseeva-Messner is a pianist and the continuation of a musical dynasty: her great-great-grandfather was the composer, pianist and theorist G.L. Katuar.
Anna is a soloist of the St. Petersburg House of Music, laureate of international and all-Russian competitions, including the I Lazar Berman International Competition (2018, Italy), the “A.N. Scriabin Scholarship” audition (2018, Moscow), and the International Online “Orbetello” Competition (2024, Italy). She first played with an orchestra at the age of 7. Her international debut was at age 10 at the “Musiques Interdites” festival in France.
Anna graduated from the Academic Music College at the Moscow Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky. She is currently continuing her studies at the Moscow Conservatory (class of Honored Artist of Russia, Professor Elena Kuznetsova). She has also taken masterclasses with pianists A. Sandler, P. Laul, M. Kultyshev.
Anna performs at various venues in Moscow, including halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, the Chamber Hall of the Philharmonic, and in St. Petersburg at the Sheremetev Palace and the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace. Her international performances include France, Italy and Lithuania. She has performed with orchestras such as the St. Petersburg GASO, the Academic Music College Symphony Orchestra, and chamber orchestras “Virtuosi Napoletani” and “Cantus Firmus”. Among conductors she has worked with are Anatoly Levin, Alexander Titov, Massimo Santaniello (Italy) and others. Anna regularly presents solo and chamber programs and actively participates in music festivals in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Information by phone: +7 (499) 241-19-01
Attend the event using the Pushkin Card.
Tickets: https://scriabinmuseum.ru/poster/7216/
20 February – Pavel Shatsky at Alexander Scriabin's Piano
On 20 February at 19:00 the third lecture-concert “Shards of the Mystery” from the cycle “Strings of Musical History” will take place in the Scriabin Museum's memorial exhibition.
Once again in our Museum the historical piano that was gifted to A.N. Scriabin almost at the dawn of his career — back in 1895 — will be heard. This remarkable instrument can be called a model of the pianos once produced by the world-famous domestic factory “J. Becker”. Nowadays, after restoration, its voice has regained its former beauty and unique timbre.
Works by Scriabin written in the late years of his life will be performed. These pieces, which vividly demonstrate the possibilities of his new musical language, remain surrounded by legend and keep many secrets hidden in the elusive distances of symbolist understatement.
Host: Candidate of Art History, Associate Professor at the Moscow Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky, laureate of the Moscow Government Prize, Pavel Shatsky (piano).
Information by phone: +7 (499) 241-19-01
Tickets: https://scriabinmuseum.ru/poster/7216/
21 February – Vasily Cherotchenko
On 21 February at 19:00 a piano music concert will take place in the Scriabin Museum's music salon. Laureate of international competitions Vasily Cherotchenko will perform the six French Suites by J.S. Bach.
Baroque music is unlikely to leave a true classical music lover indifferent. Beneath the apparent lightness and clarity of J.S. Bach's French Suites lies the fundamentality of the images and fullness of sound. The musician's task is to lead the listener from graceful lightness and rhythm to the full movement of life. Will the pianist be able to transport the listener to magnificent palace halls and make them feel like a noble? Or to the main square of a small Breton town to lose oneself in local festivities? Or to wander through intricate narratives suggested to the listener by their own imagination? Just come to the concert and hear it for yourself!
Vasily Cherotchenko is a graduating student of the Academic Music College at the Moscow Conservatory, in the class of People's Artist of Russia Yuri Stepanovich Slesarev. Vasily has repeatedly become a laureate of international piano competitions in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Pskov, Krasnodar, Saratov, Nevel, Druskininkai (Lithuania), Lecce, Tiggiano (Italy), and has won 4 special prizes at the International Piano Competition of Russian Music in Ryazan, including the audience award and the Nikolai Lugansky prize. He is a scholarship holder of the New Names foundation and the Rostropovich foundation. He has participated in many music festivals in Russia and abroad (Days of the Pskov Region in Moscow, Russian Music Festival in Pskov, Mstislav Rostropovich Festival in Orenburg, the First International A.N. Scriabin Music Festival in Moscow in 2022, the Emil Gilels Moscow Piano Music Festival). He has also taken part in international festivals in Italy and Lithuania.
Information and tickets: https://scriabinmuseum.ru/poster/7078/
22 February – Dmitry Bereznyak
On 22 February at 17:00 an evening of piano music will take place in the Scriabin Museum's music salon. Laureate of international competitions Dmitry Bereznyak will perform works by Russian and foreign composers.
Dmitry Bereznyak was born in 2000 in Magadan. He studied at Children’s Music School No. 1 in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk Region (class of teacher Lada Mukhamedyarova) and at the Special Children’s School of Arts of the South Ural State Institute of Arts named after P.I. Tchaikovsky in Chelyabinsk (class of Associate Professor Andrey Nechaev). He continued his studies at the Children's Music School attached to the F. Chopin Moscow State College of Musical Performance (class of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor Valery Pyasetsky). He graduated from the Moscow State College of Musical Performance named after F. Chopin (class of teacher Sergey Artsibashev). Since 2019 he has been a student at the Moscow Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky (class of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor Elena Ivanovna Kuznetsova). Laureate of international competitions: 2016 – Grand Prix of the X International S.V. Rachmaninoff Young Pianists Competition (Veliky Novgorod); 2017 – laureate of the II prize of the VII International A.D. Artobolevskaya Young Pianists Competition (Moscow). He has participated in masterclasses with Jean-Bernard Pommier and Boris Bekhterev. Participant of the Sirius Educational Center programs in Sochi in the classes of Mikhail Voskresensky and Andrey Diev (2015). Laureate (Bronze medal) of the Youth Delphic Games of Russia (2015). Recipient of the Moscow Mayor's Grant (2016). Laureate of the XXIV competitive audition for the “A.N. Scriabin Scholarship” (2017). He has performed in Kazan, Vilnius, Baku. In 2017 he was invited to participate in the “Making Music at Home” festival in Leipzig, Germany. Participant of international festivals “Crescendo” (led by Denis Matsuev), “South Ural – Salzburg”. He gives an annual solo concert in the Great Hall of the A.N. Scriabin Memorial Museum in Moscow. Since 2021 he has been a participant in the programs of the St. Petersburg House of Music project.
Information by phone: +7 (499) 241-19-01
Tickets: https://scriabinmuseum.ru/poster/7184/
25 February – Zhang Zixhao (China)
On 25 February at 19:00 an evening of piano music will take place on the stage of the Concert Hall “House of Scriabin”, where the young and talented pianist Zhang Zixhao (China) will perform works by F. Mendelssohn, J. Brahms and R. Shchedrin.
Zhang Zixhao is a Chinese pianist who is studying at the Moscow Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky as an assistant-intern in the class of Associate Professor A.M. Malkus. He was born in 1997 in Inner Mongolia, China. A professional in tennis, in 2014 he decided to devote himself seriously to music and the piano. Before entering the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory he studied with a tutor in China. In 2018 he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the class of Professor O.Yu. Malov and graduated in 2023. Laureate of the third prize at the International Piano Competition in Geilenkirchen (Germany) in 2013 and 2016.
Free admission with prior registration. Seats are limited.
Information by phone: +7 (499) 241-19-01
Tickets: https://scriabinmuseum.ru/poster/7212/
26 February – Matvey Shumkov
On 26 February at 19:00 an evening of piano music will take place in the Scriabin Museum's music salon. Laureate of international competitions Matvey Shumkov will perform works by J.S. Bach, L. van Beethoven, F. Schubert, F. Liszt, S. Rachmaninoff.
"A lyrical talent with a subtle sense of sound and an inclination toward dreamy, introverted interpretation," — so the press service of the Brahms Piano Competition in Detmold (Germany) described Matvey Shumkov's performance. The young talented pianist, a student at the Moscow Conservatory (class of Associate Professor S.A. Kuznetsov and Honored Artist of Russia, Professor E.I. Kuznetsova), made a striking debut by becoming the winner of two major international competitions: the Brahms Competition in Detmold (2nd prize, 2021) and the Vera Lotar-Shevchenko Memorial Competition in Yekaterinburg (1st prize, 2023), as well as laureate of the 1st prize of the Rudolf Kerer Competition in Moscow (2023).
Matvey was born in 2001 in the small Ural town of Irbit, where he received his initial education. Thanks to the support of the prominent museum figure V.A. Karpov, he began serious concert activity at age 14 and continued his studies in Yekaterinburg with Honored Art Worker of Russia, Professor S.G. Beloglazov. His training shaped him into a serious and profound musician with broad horizons and an individual pianistic technique, which laid the foundation for his future career and was reflected in the awards of those years: 2nd prize at the Vera Lotar-Shevchenko Memorial Piano Competition in the junior category (2018), Silver medal of the Delphic Games of Russia (2017), 1st and 2nd prizes of the All-Russian competition “Young Talents of Russia” (2018, 2019), Governor of Sverdlovsk Region scholarship (2016, 2017). He studied at the Sirius Educational Center and at academies of Yuri Bashmet's Winter Arts Festival, participated in intensives of the St. Petersburg House of Music and workshops for pianists, composers and conductors at musicAeterna.
Among his teachers are outstanding musicians of the era: A. Lyubimov, A. Rudin, D. Lively, B. Bloch, N. Trull, A. Sandler. The artist's creative credo is “the musician as a universalist”: he pursues an active concert and festival career on leading Russian stages, pays special attention to performance on historical pianos and in museum halls, as well as to chamber-instrumental and vocal repertoire. He is interested in composition — author of pieces for piano and ensembles, and the first performer of works by like-minded composers. Matvey's repertoire includes significant works by composers from Bach to the present day. He also shows interest in avant-garde music: Webern, Bartók, Schnittke, Feldman, Takemitsu, Pärt. His performances of Bartók pieces were recognized with a special prize at the Brahms Competition.
Information by phone: +7 (499) 241-19-01
Tickets: https://scriabinmuseum.ru/poster/7174/
