The Ukrainian-American concert pianist and conductor Stanislav Khristenko is the third proposal of the 2023 Chopin Festival with a program made up of works by Joan Sebastià Bach / Johannes Bramhs, Miquel Capllonch, Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin.
This year's edition of the Festival Chopin de Valldemossa is subsidized by the Department of Culture of the Consell de Mallorca, the Institut d'Estudis Balearics of the Government of the Balearic Islands and the European Union with Next Generation funds.
Stanislav Khristenko (Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1984) gave his first recital at the age of 11 in the Philharmonic Hall. He later graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory before moving to the United States in 2008.
Awarded in more than 30 international piano competitions, he has performed in some of the main concert halls in the world such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Palais de Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Philharmonie in Berlin, Seoul Arts Center, Prague Rudolfinum, Moscow Conservatory Great Hall, among others.
As a soloist, he has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Phoenix, Puerto Rico, and Richmond Symphonies, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Bilbao, Madrid, and Tenerife Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic of Liège, and the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
Khristenko has founded one of Ukraine's leading classical music festivals, the KharkivMusicFest, and the New Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra. He has recorded for the Steinway & Sons, Naxos, Oehms and Toccata Classics labels and is a Steinway & Sons artist.
Program:
Ciaccona de la Partita no. 2 in D minor BWV 1004, by Joan Sebastià Bach / Johannes Bramhs
(for the left hand)
Nostàlgia, by Miquel Capllonch
Nit estival, by Miquel Capllonch
La Vall d'Obermann d'Anys de peregrinatge (Suïssa), by Franz Liszt
- II -
Frederic Chopin
Ballad no. 1 in G minor op. 23
Ballad no. 2 in F major op. 38
Ballad no. 3 in A flat major op. 47
Ballad no. 4 in F minor op. 52
Since the creation of the Pro Chopin Committee in 1930 by the composer Joan Maria Thomàs, in addition to paying permanent tribute to Chopin's work, one of the objectives has been the recovery and dissemination of the island's musical heritage and the best contemporary music made in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century.
Following this line of recovery and dissemination, this year's Chopin Festival wanted to keep in mind three very significant island musicians: Antoni Lliteres i Carrió (Artà, 1673 – Madrid, 1747), Miquel Capllonch (Pollença, 1861 – 1935) and Carme Fernández Vidal (Palma, 1970).
The four concerts of the Chopin Festival 2023 are held in the Cloister of the Cartuja de Valldemossa from August 6 to 27. In the Chapter House you can see the Ñaco Fabré exhibition Dar a ver.
