Vitaly Pisarenko(Piano)

First Prize winner of the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition

On 12 April 2008, Russian pianist Vitaly Pisarenko (1987) won First Prize at the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Vitaly's packed tour schedule, with world-wide engagements until 2011, commenced straight away the morning after the Finals with an appearance at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Damian Iorio.

Following several concerts at other leading Dutch concert venues, Vitaly's itinerary includes appearances in Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, England, Lithuania, Ecuador, Indonesia, China, Mexico and the United States.

Vitaly Pisarenko already had his first public recital at the age of 6. Following his first musical training at music schools in Kiev and Kharkov, he commenced his study at the State Conservatory in Moscow under Prof. Yuri Slesarev in 2005. At the same time, he enrolled in a postacademic course of study at Rotterdam's Codarts Conservatory, as a pupil of Aquiles Delle Vigne. Vitaly has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Ukraine, Russia, Italy, the Republic of Macedonia, Austria and Germany.

As part of the prizes won at various competitions, in particular Third Prize, the Audience Prize and the Special Prize of Fazil Say at the 5th Franz Liszt Competition in Weimar in 2006, he received invitations to appear in Japan, Australia, South Korea and Turkey. In 2007, he participated in the performance of the complete piano works of Ravel in Rotterdam during the Codarts Ravel Piano Marathon.
In 2008 after having won the Liszt Competition Vitaly Pisarenko has been a guest at the Basilica Festival of Flanders, the Piano Pic Festival in France, the Berlin International Music Festival & Academy, the Delft Chamber Music Festival, the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam and the Busoni Festival in Bolzano, amongst other events. In October Vitaly played with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Budapest.

In January 2009 the pianist made an extensive Netherlands tour with the North Netherlands Orchestra under the direction of Michel Tabachnik. For the first half of 2009, his schedule includes engagements at the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw (with the Polish National Philharmonic Orchestra) and a tour through South America. Here he will give concerts in Brazil (São Paulo: Virtuoses da Música), Chile (Punta Arenas) and Argentina (Ushuaia Festival). In Ushuaia he will play together with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra under Jorge Uliarte. Shortly afterwards, in May 2009, he will make an international tour with the Heath Quartet, winners of the TROMP International Music Competition 2008.

This summer Vitaly will appear at the Prestige Series of the International Keyboard Institute & Festival of New York and the Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg (Austria). In the autumn he will tour Europe as part of the European Liszt Nights that will be held in Liszt cities Budapest, Weimar, Bayreuth, Raiding and Utrecht. Later on he will play at the Vilnius Piano Festival, in South Africa and in Poland. Mid 2010 a concert with the The Hague Philharmonic has been planned at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as part of the prestigious Robeco Zomerconcerten.
*text from International Franz Liszt Piano Competition

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