{"id":5764,"date":"2019-12-09T12:14:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2019-12-09T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T12:15:44","slug":"vadym-kholodenko-jaques-samuel-bechstein-series-at-st-johns-smith-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=5764","title":{"rendered":"Vadym Kholodenko: Jaques Samuel Bechstein Series at St John\u2019s Smith Square"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday 31 January, 7pm, St John\u2019s Smith Square, London<\/strong>
\n\u201c… ripples of delicious virtuosity from Kholodenko; surprising shades of quiet cool and conscious detachment as a foil to the more ostentatious power-driven variations; and an accommodating interplay between soloist and orchestra.\u201d The Scotsman, 24 April 2019
\nOn Friday 31 January, the Jaques Samuel Bechstein Series launches at
\nSt John’s Smith Square with a recital by Ukrainian pianist,
\nVadym Kholodenko.<\/p>\n

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Winner of the three major prizes at the 2013 Van Cliburn: the prestigious Gold Medal, the Steven de Groote Memorial Award and the Beverly Taylor Smith Award (best performance of a piano quintet and best performance of a commissioned work), he has performed more than 50 engagements as a result, including concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and San Diego Symphony Orchestras and, was appointed Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s first Artist in Partnership.
\nRecognised for his deeply intelligent and powerfully virtuosic playing, in 2013 Kholodenko was awarded a residency at the Mariinsky Concert Hall where Valery Gergiev named him Artist of the Month later engaging him, alongside Denis Matsuev (No. 2) and Daniil Trifinov (No. 3), to perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 5 for an Arthaus DVD to mark the 125th anniversary of Prokofiev’s birth.
\nHis fast growing reputation across Europe and North America has led to recitals at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Liszt Academy Budapest, Radio France in Paris, Lucerne and at the SWR Schwetzignen Festspiele, La Roque d\u2019Anth\u00e9ron, and the Chopin Festival in Warsaw.
\nKholodenko made his London recital debut with a lunchtime concert at LSO St Luke’s in 2017 and, the following year, gave a recital at the Wigmore Hall. The Bechstein Recital Series is new a recital series presented by piano company Jaques Samuels at St John\u2019s Smith Square. He joins esteemed company in the series which also includes pianists Boris Giltburg (27 February), Luka Okros (16 March) and Federico Colli (15 April).
\nHis recital programme is built around three sonatas: Mozart\u2019s Sonata in C minor, one of only two examples of Mozart\u2019s use of a minor key for a piano sonata; Schubert\u2019s joyful and lyrical \u2018Little\u2019 sonata written during a happy summer in the Styrian countryside, and to close, the majestic Piano Sonata No. 2 by Rachmaninov. Alongside these sonatas, Kholodenko will perform a selection of Preludes by Scriabin. His interpretations of Scriabin\u2019s music have been much applauded and his recording of solo works by Scriabin released by Harmonia Mundi in 2018 received the Diapason d’Or de l’anne?e.
\nOne week prior to the St John’s Smith Square recital, Kholodenko will perform the same programme at St John the Evangelist in Oxford as part of SJE\u2019s own International Piano Series. He will also perform the programme for Darlington Piano Society on 26th January and for Hexham & District Music Society on 28th January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday 31 January, 7pm, St John\u2019s Smith Square, London \u201c… ripples of delicious virtuosity from Kholodenko; surprising shades of quiet cool and conscious detachment as a foil to the more ostentatious power-driven variations; and an accommodating interplay between soloist and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5767,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}