Cycle "Outlines of Chopin"

The Forth Concert
Performers:
Aleksandr Pirozhenko (piano)
Peter Laul (piano)

In the forth concert of the cycle we will hear
Three Polonaises (Op. 71)
Three Ecossaises (Op. 72 No 3)
Three Mazurkas (Op. 50)
Ballade No. 4 in F minor (Op.52)
performed by Aleksandr Pirozhenko
and
14 Chopin's Waltzes
performed by Peter Laul
Aleksandr Pirozhenko was born in Leningrad. In 2003 he has graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory and in 2005 he has finished his postgraduate studies in the class of Professor A.M. Sandler.The musician performs regularly solo programs and as a soloist with orchestras in Russia and abroad, including such countries as Estonia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Germany, Austria, France, UK, USA, Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Japan, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and other countries. Aleksandr Pirozhenko is a winner of many international competitions. Among his awards are the first prizes at Competition named after Ettore Pozzoli in Italy, at the Competitions of concert performers in New York, Ibiza, and in Newport (UK).
Aleksandr Pirozhenko has performed under direction of such well-known conductors as Nikolai Alexeyev, Alexander Dmitriev, Sergei Stadler, Vladimir Altschuler, Alexander Sladkovsky, Eduard Serov, Arkady Schteinluht, Alexander Chernushenko, Tugan Sokhiev, Hobart Earle, Imants Reznis, Michael Stern, George Mester, Grant Llewellyn , Ulf Schirmer, Nicholas Carthy, Neil Varon, En Shao and others.

Peter Laul was born in a family of musicians in Leningrad. He graduated from St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after Rimsky-Korsakov (Class of A. Sandler), where he currently teaches. He is a winner of numerous international competitions. Peter Laul performs in the best halls of St. Petersburg and other Russian cities, solo and with symphony orchestras. He tours also abroad and performs regularly in Germany and France, Spain, Belgium, Estonia and many other countries around the world. Being a soloist he collaborated with orchestra of St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, State Symphony Capella of Russia, North-West German Philharmonic Orchestra, orchestras and theaters of the cities Dessau, Bremerhaven and Oldenburg, the orchestra Les Sekl, as well as many other teams under the direction of such recognized masters as: M. Shostakovich, Valery Gergiev, Eri Klas, F-K. Kasadesus, Nikolai Alexeyev, the F-Ks. Rot and others.