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Passe-partout

By Daria van den Bercken, Jeremy Denk, Britten Sinfonia, Micha Wertheim, Enrico Pace, Gabriela Montero, Hans Dagelet, Mahan Esfahani, Rami Khalifé, a.o.

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

By Rosabel Huguet, Mathilde Wantenaar, Daria van den Bercken, Britten Sinfonia, Marjolijn Brouwer, Daan van Aalst

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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Free the Piano

By Mahan Esfahani, Daria van den Bercken, Emer McDonough, Thomas Gould, Britten Sinfonia

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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Late Night: Shorts

By Mahan Esfahani, Daria van den Bercken, Yeol Eum Son

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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Club Piano Ground

By Jeremy Denk

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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Young talent: Nikola Meeuwsen

By Nikola Meeuwsen

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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Showtime and serenity

By Enrico Pace

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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Late Night: Echt Gebeurd

By Micha Wertheim en Piano Biënnale pianisten

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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Young talent: Aidan Mikdad

By Aidan Mikdad

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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Devilish fingers and pure poetry

By Jeremy Denk

'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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Money, money, money

By Phion, Yeol Eum Son, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Hans Dagelet

A story about art and money, about two capricious personalities: Prokofiev and Mozart. Brilliant piano concertos played by brilliant pianists.

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Late Night: Rami Khalife

By Rami Khalifé

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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PianoFest

By David Kuyken, PianoFest en amateurpianisten

Attention to amateur pianists: step into the shoes of a real concert pianist and give a short performance on a Steinway grand piano in Concertgebouw de Vereeniging in Nijmegen.

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Children’s workshop: Learn how to compose

By Stichting In de knop, Christiaan Kuyvenhoven

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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Family concert ft. Lestari Scholtes

By Lestari Scholtes

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 on the organ

By Laurens de Man

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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Liberating improvisations and masterpieces

By Gabriela Montero

Ultimate freedom: improvisation! World star Gabriela Montero ventures into this nineteenth-century practice, interspersed with Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Stravinsky.

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Abdel Rachman El Bacha Pianist Composer
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Money, money, money

By Phion, Yeol Eum Son, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, Hans Dagelet

A story about art and money, about two capricious personalities: Prokofiev and Mozart. Brilliant piano concertos played by brilliant pianists.

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Late Night: The quietude of John Cage

By Cédric Tiberghien

'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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Children’s workshop: Learn how to compose

By Stichting In de knop, Christiaan Kuyvenhoven

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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Piano and friends: festive chamber music

By Finghin Collins, Cédric Tiberghien, Ruysdael Kwartet

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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Family concert ft. Christiaan Kuyvenhoven

By Christiaan Kuyvenhoven

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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Young young talent: Adam Akopian

By Adam Akopian

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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Music of the Future

By Olga Pashchenko

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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Le Sacre du Printemps

By Israel Galván, Daria van den Bercken, Gerard Bouwhuis

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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