Vive Chopin!
Riga Piano Season
Friday, 2008 April 25th, 7 PM
Black Head House
Peter Jablonski (piano, Sweden)
Program: Haydn, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin
Engaging audiences with his dynamic flair and virtuosic skill, Peter Jablonski is both a popular and critically acclaimed performer. Born in Lyckeby, Sweden, Peter came to prominence in his early teens, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1 in Warsaw and Krakow. This was soon followed by concerts with both the Swedish and Danish Radio Orchestras. At the age of 18 he was brought to the attention of Vladimir Ashkenazy who invited him to record the Gershwin Piano Concerto for Decca, raising Peter Jablonski to international recognition.
Peter Jablonski has given concerts on all five continents, both in recital and with many orchestras. Highlights have included the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (with whom he has also made a number of recordings), BBC Symphony, Philharmonia, and Cleveland orchestras, as well as working alongside the Philadelphia Orchestra/Dutoit, Kirov/Gergiev, Czech Philharmonic (including performances at the Lucerne Festival under Ashkenazy), Orchestre National de France/Chung, Filarmonica della Scala di Milano/Chung, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia as well as the London, Stockholm, Oslo and New Japan Philharmonics.
A frequent performer in Japan he has recently worked with the NHK Symphony under Ashkenazy and toured with the Stavanger Symphony under Susanna Mälkki. Plans in this season include concerts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus under Riccardo Chailly, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, RTSI Lugano, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and London Chamber Orchestra.
Peter Jablonski is Artistic Director of the annual Karlskrona Chamber Music Festival in Sweden. He is also Artistic Director to Altara Records for which he has recently recorded the Prokofiev and Shostakovich Cello Sonatas with Ralph Kirshbaum. Together the duo have given a number of recitals including at the Frick Collection in New York and they will perform at the Ravinia Festival in 2008.
2007 also saw the release of Prokofiev Sonatas for the Octavia label. Peter has a prolific output with Decca – his disc of Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini and Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.1 under Ashkenazy was bestowed the Edison Award. He also collaborated with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg in a recording of works by Chaminade for Deutsche Grammophon which received a Gramophone Award in 2002.
In June 2005 Peter Jablonski was awarded the ‘Litteris et Artibus’ Medal by the King of Sweden for pre-eminent achievement as a pianist. In 1998 he was awarded the 'Orpheus Award' at the Warsaw Autumn Festival for his premiere performance of Kilar's Piano Concerto, which was written for and dedicated to him. And in 1996 he won the Årets Svensk I Världen – a prestigious annual award presented to those who have contributed to the worldwide promotion of Sweden.
Peter Jablonski played it sensationally with exceptional gracefulness.
Corriere della Sera, 2007
His fingers seemed to hover above the piano; the sound was full of luminance and lustrous colours... The audience was overwhelmed and the applause simply didn’t stop.
Usedomkurier, 2006
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