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We are looking forward to working with the pianist Anton Gerzenberg! The current winner of the Concours Géza Anda will perform numerous concerts in the coming weeks.
György Ligeti, Études pour piano (I,II,III)
Claude Debussy, Estampes
Maurice Ravel, Miroirs
Anton Gerzenberg, piano
György Ligeti, Études pour piano - Troisième livre
György Ligeti, Études pour piano - Deuxième livre
György Ligeti, Études pour piano - Premier livre
György Ligeti, composition
Maurice Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin
Sándor Veress, Hommage à Paul Klee - Fantasie für 2 Klaviere & Streichorchester
Joseph Haydn, Sinfonie Nr. 98
Duo Gerzenberg
Heinz Holliger, conductor
Zürcher Kammerorchester zko
Frédéric Chopin, 24 Préludes op. 28
Salvatore Sciarrino, 6 Capricci
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonata for piano and violin in A major, KV 526
Franz Schubert, Fantasy in C major for violin and piano D 934
Luciano Berio, Sequenza VIII für Violine solo
Ilya Gringolts, violin
Lilya Zilberstein, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto for 2 Pianos C minor BWV 1060
Johann Sebastian Bach, Konzert für 3 Klavier d-Moll, BWV 1063
Johann Sebastian Bach, Konzert für 4 Klaviere a-Moll, BWV 1065
Zlata Chochieva, piano
Leonora Armellini, piano
Mattia Ometto, piano
Orchestra L'Appassionata
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rondo A minor, KV 511
Robert Schumann, Kreisleriana, op. 16
Frédérik Chopin, Ballade no. 1 in G minor Op. 23
Frédérik Chopin, Ballade Nr. 2 F-Dur op. 38
Frédéric Chopin, Ballade No. 3 A-Dur, op. 47
Frédérik Chopin, Ballade Nr. 4 f-moll, op. 52
George Gershwin, Piano concert in F
Jessie Montgomery, Records from a Vanishing City
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphonie No. 38 KV 504 'Prager Sinfonie'
Holly Hyun Choe, conductor
Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck
Gerzenberg was in a league of his own. He seemed in total control, armed with uncommon self-assuredness for a pianist of his age. (...) He looks every bit a potential leading light of his generation. James Imam, Musical America Worldwide
Born in 1996, pianist Anton Gerzenberg was catapulted onto the international classical music scene in June 2021, when he won the First Prize at the 15th Concours Géza Anda in Zurich. Since then he has established his presence in the music world with performances of both classical repertoire as well as the extended sound worlds of contemporary piano music, for which he has a particular affinity and likes to pair in conceptual programmes.
Highlights of the current season include a residency at the Konzerthaus Vienna, where he is represented as “Great Talent” and will perform in five concerts and various recitals, as well as in debuts with the Wiener KammerOrchester and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. The season will also feature a conducting debut with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, extended tours to South Korea, Taiwan, and Mexico, as well as a tour in Germany and Austria of the complete Ligeti Etudes for the celebration of Ligeti’s 100th birthday.
He has performed on numerous important stages worldwide such as the Tonhalle Zurich, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, KKL Lucerne, the Konzerthaus Vienna, Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore, the National Concert Hall of Taiwan, and with leading orchestras including the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, and Musikkollegium Winterthur, among others. Frequent musical partners include Martha Argerich, Ilya Gringolts, Julia Hagen, and Dora Schwarzberg, as well as conductors such as Paavo Järvi, Antonello Manacorda, Stefan Blunier, and Jonathan Stockhammer.
With repertoire ranging from Sweelinck to Lachenmann, he is a welcome guest in festivals like the Klavierfestival Ruhr, Accademia Chigiana, Rheingau Musikfestival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Berliner Klavierfestival, and the Martha Argerich Festivals in Lugano and Hamburg.
Anton Gerzenberg’s interest in new music was particularly supported by his studies with French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and has led him to work with numerous important composers of our time, among them Helmut Lachenmann, Unsuk Chin, and Marco Stroppa. In 2019, he was one of the co-founders of the ÉRMA Ensemble, an ensemble specialized in Contemporary Music. His studies led him also to Julija Botchkovskaia in Hamburg and Jan Jiracek von Arnim in Vienna; important mentors were Robert Levin, Alfred Brendel, and Bella Davidovich.
2022/23 season
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LIGETI ETUDES
G. Ligeti: Études, Livre III
C. Debussy: Estampes
G. Ligeti: Études, Livre II
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M. Ravel: Miroirs
G. Ligeti: Études, Livre I
HOMMAGE
W. A. Mozart: Rondo A Minor, KV 511
R. Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16 (dedicated to Frédéric Chopin)
F. Chopin:
Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 (dedicated to Robert Schumann)
Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat major, Op. 47
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 54
SUGGESTION DIABOLIQUE
C. Tausig: Das Geisterschiff, Op. 1c
G. Ligeti: “Der Zauberlehrling“ / Etude No. 10
S. Prokofiev: Toccata in D minor, Op. 11
G. Ligeti: „L‘escalier du diable“ / Etude No. 13
S. Prokofiev: Suggestion diabolique, Op. 4 / 4
G. Ligeti: “Vertige“ / Etude No. 9
F. Liszt: Mephisto Waltz Nro. 1, S. 514
S. Rachmaninoff: “Le petit chaperon rouge“ / Etude Tableau A minor, Op. 39 / 6
G. Ligeti: “En suspens“ / Etude No. 11
S. Rachmaninoff: Etude Tableau in E-flat minor, Op. 33 / 3
G. Ligeti: “Automne à Varsovie“ / Etude No. 6
S. Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 36 (First Version)
BACH - BUSONI - KURTÁG - SCHÖNBERG - BEETHOVEN
J. S. Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816
J. S. Bach / F. Busoni: “Nun komm‘ der Heiden Heiland“ / Chorale Preludes, BWV 659
G. Kurtág: “Preludium és Korál“ from Játekok / 5
J. S. Bach / F. Busoni: “Ich ruf‘ zu dir, Herr“ / Chorale Preludes BWV 639
G. Kurtág: Suggestion diabolique, Op. 4 / 4
J. S. Bach / F. Busoni: Adagio in C minor, BWV 564 (oder) J. S. Bach: Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
A. Schönberg: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11
L. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein“
"Gerzenberg was in a league of his own. He seemed in total control, armed with uncommon self-assuredness for a pianist of his age. [...] He looks every bit a potential leading light of his generation.“
James Imam, Musical America Worldwide, 16/06/21
"This rich concert experience, profound musicality and brilliant piano technique have benefited his multifaceted interpretations of Liszt as much as his interpretations of Brahms, Ravel and Bartók in recital."
Julia Spinola, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), 06/06/21
"Suddenly there was a pianist on the stage who appeared as a background to the music and acted in such a way as to recognise the text of the notes in its subtlety. [...] He showed immense musicality, convincing in every nuance."
Carsten Dürer, Piano News 05/21