Dimitry Masleev, piano
Concert

France Musique described Dmitry Masleev as a “super-soloist” when he performed with the Orchestre national de France in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, the work that helped launch his international career following his victory at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 2015.

His recital debut at the Philharmonie de Paris in March 2022 confirmed the emergence of a new talent among the most distinctive pianists of our time: “What an artist! Everything is so simple, so ingenious, without the slightest attempt to explain the music,” wrote Alain Lompech in Bachtrack.

The current season kicks off with the release of a new album on the leading European label Aparté. This time, Dmitry Masleev serves as both soloist and conductor of the Svetlanov Orchestra, leading the renowned ensemble from his piano. Together, they perform Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini and Liszt’s Totentanz, two works inspired by the famous Dies Irae from the Gregorian funeral mass. Liszt’s Spanish Rhapsody, in an orchestral transcription by Mikhail Petukhov, rounds out this album dedicated to some of the most iconic pieces in the piano repertoire.

Dmitry Masleev’s previous recording, *The Seasons*, released by Mirare, featured Tchaikovsky’s eponymous piano cycle alongside rarely performed works by Glinka, Cui, and Balakirev, as well as a striking interpretation of Mussorgsky’s *A Night on Bald Mountain*. The album was featured on France Musique and received acclaim from the international press.

Among the highlights of the current season is Dmitry’s return to Paris for a recital at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées as part of the prestigious “Piano 4 Étoiles” series, which exclusively features pianists such as Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, András Schiff, and Arcadi Volodos, among others. Dmitry will also perform in Russia, China, South Korea, Latin America, Italy, and France, notably at the La Folle Journée and La Roque d’Anthéron festivals.

His previous performance in La Roque d’Anthéron was described by *La Provence* as “a magical evening where virtuosity blended with the soul’s most intimate stirrings… Masleev leads us, note by note, toward the purest emotional reality of what makes life worth living.”

In recent seasons, Dmitry has also been invited to perform at the Lucerne Festival and the Klavierfestival Ruhr, as well as at the festivals in Verbier, Montreux, Rheingau, Bad Kissingen, Bodensee, Bergamo, and Brescia, and at the Stars of the White Nights. His collaborations with orchestras include, notably, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lyon National Orchestra, the Orquestra Cadaqués, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Verbier Festival Orchestra, among many other ensembles.

Last spring, Dmitry resumed his collaboration with the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Martin Rajna, performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in the sold-out Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. He works with several of today’s leading conductors, including Christoph Eschenbach, David Robertson, Mikko Franck, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Joshua Weilerstein, Robert Trevino, and Ariane Matiakh.

Dmitry Masleev’s debut album, released during a concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and featuring works for solo piano and piano with orchestra, made the Spotify Top Classical 2017 charts. It also received the prestigious German Record Critics’ Award (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik) in the solo piano category, where it was nominated alongside Krystian Zimerman’s Schubert album, released by Deutsche Grammophon.

“One cannot help but revel in the poetic spontaneity of this recording dedicated to Scarlatti, thanks in particular to the virtuosity, precision, and ease of Masleev’s playing,” wrote Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

“It’s fascinating to watch his artistic evolution. You can’t learn to play that way. It requires great natural musicality… Masleev shows how, within a limited space, it’s possible to open up an entire inner cosmos. That is what great art is, and it’s what we always hope to experience as listeners, but rarely encounter: seeing the artist search for himself and hearing him find himself,” wrote Helmut Mauró in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2019.

North America fell under Dmitry Masleev’s spell when he made his recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium in January 2017. In 2018, he toured from coast to coast with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and Pavel Kogan. In the summer of 2022, he performed at the Newport Classical Festival and the Napa Valley Festival.

Born and raised in Ulan-Ude, a Siberian city located between Lake Baikal and the Mongolian border, Dmitry studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Professor Mikhail Petukhov’s class, as well as at the International Academy of Music on Lake Como.

Translated from: dmitry-masleev.com

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