An intimate concert experience where music and scent intertwine.

Peformers:
Elina Akselrud & Denis Zhdanov, piano
Naoko Kusunoki, olfactory artist

Featuring works by Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Takemitsu, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, and Messiaen, the program travels through shimmering water, birdsong, the presence of rain, profound stillness, prayer, and dreamlike worlds. Each composition opens a different landscape, inviting the audience to experience it through both sound and scent.

Piano Recital - Belluno Auditorium, Italy - more info…

Scriabin 12 Etudes Op. 8

Rachmaninoff 9 Etudes-Tableaux Op. 39

This program presents selected works for clarinet and piano that exemplify the influence of jazz on twentieth- and twenty-first-century concert music. 

with Anastasia Schmidlin, Clarinet

This program presents selected works for clarinet and piano that exemplify the influence of jazz on twentieth- and twenty-first-century concert music. 

with Anastasia Schmidlin, Clarinet

This program presents selected works for clarinet and piano that exemplify the influence of jazz on twentieth- and twenty-first-century concert music. 

with Anastasia Schmidlin, Clarinet

Elina Akselrud & Denis Zhdanov

as Klavierduo Arteprism

Francis Poulenc Sonata for two pianos FP 156
Olivier Messiaen "Visions de l'Amen" for two pianos

Admission : Donations are welcome

Kunstuniversität Graz, Austria

Anastasia Schmidlin, Clarinet

Denis Zhdanov, Piano

An exciting and diverse chamber duo program featuring miniatures by Schumann, Prokofiev, Tailleferre, Schoek, Lutosławski, Gerschwin, and Falla.

Anastasia Schmidlin, Clarinet

Denis Zhdanov, Piano

An exciting and diverse chamber duo program featuring miniatures by Schumann, Prokofiev, Tailleferre, Schoek, Lutosławski, Gerschwin, and Falla.

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Maurice Ravel: La Valse for 2 pianos

Elina Akselrud & Denis Zhdanov

I am thrilled to share the stage with my beloved wife again, and to open the SONify! Festival of Music and Artistic research with one of the most significant works ever written for two pianos!

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Denis Zhdanov – piano
Yaroslav Shemet – Conducting
Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Śląskiej

Stanisław Moniuszko – Overture to the opera "Paria" (arr. G. Fitelberg) Fryderyk Chopin – Variations in B-flat major, Op. 2, on the theme "Là ci darem la mano" from the opera "Don Giovanni" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fryderyk Chopin – Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante in E-flat major, Op. 22
Robert Schumann – Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120

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Robert Schumann – Papillons op.2
Robert Schumann/Ferenc Liszt – Widmung
Ferenc Liszt – Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, S. 161 no. 5
Fryderyk Chopin – Variations op.2 La Ci Darem il Mano
Andante Spianato & Grande Brillante Polonaise op.22

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Anastasia Schmidlin Klarinette
Denis Zhdanov Klavier

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The program consists of exciting pieces that were composed as a Homage to an important person in the composer's life.

Joseph Horovitz (1926-2022) Two Majorcan Pieces
Paguera
Valdemosa

Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) Drei Miniaturen für Klarinette und Klavier
Allegro
Andante cantabile
Allegro ma non troppo

Eugène Bozza (1905-1991) Bucolique

Edison Denisov (1929-1996) Sonate für Klarinette Solo
Lento rubato
Allegro giusto

Frederic Mompou (1893-1987) Canción y Danza no. 6

Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012) Ballad in Memory of Shirley Horn

Jean Françaix (1912-1997) Thème et variations

Free Entrance - you can leave a voluntary donation for the artists

Anastasia Schmidlin Klarinette
Denis Zhdanov Klavier

The program consists of exciting pieces that were composed as a Homage to an important person in the composer's life.

Joseph Horovitz (1926-2022) Two Majorcan Pieces
Paguera
Valdemosa

Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) Drei Miniaturen für Klarinette und Klavier
Allegro
Andante cantabile
Allegro ma non troppo

Eugène Bozza (1905-1991) Bucolique

Edison Denisov (1929-1996) Sonate für Klarinette Solo
Lento rubato
Allegro giusto

Frederic Mompou (1893-1987) Canción y Danza no. 6

Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012) Ballad in Memory of Shirley Horn

Jean Françaix (1912-1997) Thème et variations

Anastasia Schmidlin Klarinette
Denis Zhdanov Klavier

The program consists of exciting pieces that were composed as a Homage to an important person in the composer's life.

Joseph Horovitz (1926-2022) Two Majorcan Pieces
Paguera
Valdemosa

Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) Drei Miniaturen für Klarinette und Klavier
Allegro
Andante cantabile
Allegro ma non troppo

Eugène Bozza (1905-1991) Bucolique

Edison Denisov (1929-1996) Sonate für Klarinette Solo
Lento rubato
Allegro giusto

Frederic Mompou (1893-1987) Canción y Danza no. 6

Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012) Ballad in Memory of Shirley Horn

Jean Françaix (1912-1997) Thème et variations

FESTIVAL ARSONORE: the Great Opening Celebration

Gustav Holst
The Planets, Op.32
Arranged for Two Pianos by the Composer

with Elina Akselrud

Tickets available here

Music of British Composers of the XX Century

With Anastasia Schmidlin, Clarinet

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) Fünf Bagatellen, Op. 26

Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Sonatina

John Ireland (1879-1962) Decorations

Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) Pastoral

Joseph Horovitz (1926-2022) Sonatina

Music of British Composers of the XX Century

With Anastasia Schmidlin, Clarinet

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) Fünf Bagatellen, Op. 26

Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Sonatina

John Ireland (1879-1962) Decorations

Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) Pastoral

Joseph Horovitz (1926-2022) Sonatina

The workshop is intended for emerging artists: students as well as young professionals, to offer guidance and advice on how to be in control of one’s own artistic path. Being a great artist in most cases is unfortunately not enough to be a successful professional; one needs to be able to organize projects, to build a network, to fundraise, to maintain online presence, and last but not least, to find unique ways to deliver their art and integrity to the public. Denis Zhdanov and Elina Akselrud have a perennial experience in artistic entrepreneurship, in addition to being professional artists with a worldwide performing experience, and we are more than delighted to share our advice with the younger generation of emerging artists:

1. Elina Akselrud: CV/Bio Writing for Emerging Artists
2. Denis Zhdanov: Being an Artist Entrepreneur & Using Social Networks as a Tool
3. Elina Akselrud: Empower Your Path

The admission is FREE, registration is required by email marta.kaluzna-golab [at] bmeia.gv.at

If you didn’t have a chance to watch our film in the cinema in Graz, or if you want to re-watch it, here is another chance! Join us on Friday December 30, 8:30PM CET!

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I have made this film in collaboration with a Ukrainian visual artist Anna Prydatko, who was incredible enough to accomplish this work despite highly intensive war actions and country-wide regular power outages in Ukraine.

READ MORE about Ligeti's "Musica Ricercata" and about our project.

Works of Ukrainian and European composers for two pianos with Elina Akselrud

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Denis Zhdanov, piano

Elina Akselrud, piano

The program offers a review of musical form and the development of the Romantic tradition.  The 3rd Piano Sonata by Australian composer Carl Vine represents a larger musical form of a sonata and demonstrates the composer's ability to masterfully portray the post-Romantic aesthetic through the prism of contemporary compositional devices.

Chopin's famous Ballade in F minor Op.52 continues the line of dark romantic beauty and features what he calls a middle form.

The 24 Preludes Op.28 by Chopin represent the smallest possible form in romantic music and are gems that have amazed people with their perfection and completion for almost two centuries.