Gold Medalist of the Bachauer and Sydney Competitions performs a brilliant concert featuring Rachmaninoff’s Preludes and Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrushka, a journey through some of Russia’s greatest musical masterpieces from the 20th century.
Possessing an “extraordinarily versatile and agile technique, which serves an often inspired musical imagination” (Gramophone), pianist Andrey Gugnin is rapidly gaining international acclaim as a passionately virtuosic performer. In 2020, the BBC Music Magazine Awards named Gugnin the winner of the Instrumental Award for his recording Shostakovich: 24 Preludes - Piano Sonatas 1 & 2 (Hyperion). Since winning the prestigious Sydney International Piano Competition in 2016, Gugnin has gone from strength to strength in concerts and recordings which exhibit his impassioned interpretations.
In addition to winning in Sydney, Gugnin also received prizes for Best Overall Concerto, Best 19th/20th Century Concerto, Best Violin and Piano Sonata, and Best Preliminaries for his first-round recital. He previously won the Gold Medal and Audience Award at the 2014 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition in Salt Lake City, and second prize at the 2013 Beethoven International Piano Competition in Vienna.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / RACHMANINOFF
from Violin Partita in E Major
MAURICE RAVEL
Sonatine
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Trois mouvements de Petrouchka
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Preludes, op. 32
