Passe-partout A: to all concerts of the festival, both in Arnhem and Nijmegen, for €150,- NOTE: Passe-partout A includes Phion and Grand pianists in Arnhem
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Listen First: a 3D music exhibition. Here you can hear Mathilde Wantenaar's Rhapsody for Piano and Strings as if you were stepping into your own head, in a specially created dome
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Mathilde Wantenaar composed her Rhapsody for Piano and Strings specifically for Daria van den Bercken and Britten Sinfonia, as an answer to Bach's fifth Brandenburg Concerto. The world’s oldest and very youngest piano concerto on a single night – the Piano Biennial has commenced!
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Three top pianists play their favorite groundbreaking work. The program features short pieces that have been revolutionary in music history, compositions that exemplify a new language in music.
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During an interactive program, American master pianist and best-selling author Jeremy Denk takes the audience through his experiences about life as a pianist
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Nikola Meeuwsen, winner of the GrachtenfestivalPrijs 2022 and "a talent to keep an eye on" (NRC) plays one of the most important piano works of the Romantic era.
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A lioness on the piano, a love-struck composer, and a virtuoso turning towards quietude. Enrico Pace is is the ideal interpreter for tonight’s program of Clara Schumann, Brahms and Liszt.
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Together with the team from the wildly popular podcast show 'Echt Gebeurd', we get to know more about the people on the piano bench, led by comedian Micha Wertheim, under the title A Long Story Short.
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Aidan Mikdad: one out-of-the-ordinary talent, won the Royal Concertgebouw Competition at the age of 11 and now plays Liszt's heady Sonata in b.
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'A pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs,' writes New York Times. His program has something for everyone.
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A story about art and money, about two capricious personalities: Prokofiev and Mozart. Brilliant piano concertos played by brilliant pianists.
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Rami Khalifé prefers a detour from the usual classical track. He sings, improvises, produces dance rhythms on the grand piano, alternating lyricism with rousing rhythms – as you haven't heard the piano before.
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How do you make up music? And how do you actually write down a new song? You'll find out during this workshop!
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Lestari Scholtes plays a concert for the whole family, including the piece composed by the children (8-12) during the prior workshop with Stichting In de Knop
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Free play for the greatuncle of the piano: the organ. Laurens the man plays the very oldest surviving repertoire from the keyboard tradition up to Bartók.
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Ultimate freedom: improvisation! World star Gabriela Montero ventures into this nineteenth-century practice, interspersed with Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Stravinsky.
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A story about art and money, about two capricious personalities: Prokofiev and Mozart. Brilliant piano concertos played by brilliant pianists.
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'An absolute masterpiece: metaphysical, philosophical. A true experience of meditation and self exploration’, Tiberghien calls John Cage's Sonatas & Interludes for prepared piano, also called the 'Goldberg Variations' of the 20th century.
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How do you make up music? And how do you actually write down a new song? You'll find out during this workshop!
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Brahms' Hungarian Dances for piano four hands and Dvořák's Piano Quintet - no better way to enter your Sunday than with festive chamber music!
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Christiaan Kuyvenhoven plays music for the whole family, including the piece composed by the children (8-12) during the prior workshop with Stichting in de Knop
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At age 12, Adam Akopian won the Royal Concertgebouw Competition - "You don't play music, you are music," according to the judges - and earlier this year, now 14 years old, he received the first Piano Biennial Scholarship.
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Olga Pashchenko thinks outside the box. It is not either/or, but both/and for this Russian keyboard virtuoso: early and new music, piano and fortepiano.
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With his radical innovations, Israel Galván shakes flamenco to its foundations. He dances to Le sacre du printemps, one of the most groundbreaking works of the 20th century, in the version for two pianos.
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