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Pavel Kolesnikov © Eva Vermandel
Pavel Kolesnikov © Eva Vermandel

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Jemima Pickersgill

Jemima Pickersgill

Assistant Artist Manager

Representation

General management with Askonas Holt

 Partner Managers: Interartists (Benelux)

About Pavel

Following performances with the London Symphony Orchestra at Classical Pride this summer, the 24/25 season sees Pavel give recitals at Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Brugges, Spivey Hall and Severance Music Center as part of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Piano Series. He also returns to The Hallé, Bournemouth Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and debuts with Adelaide Symphony.

Highlights of the 23/24 season included concertos with the Danish National Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic and at the BBC Proms with the BBC Scottish Symphony, collaborating with conductors Susanna Mälkki, Manfred Honeck, Sir Mark Elder, Alpesh Chauhan, Gemma New, Alexander Bloch and Vasily Petrenko.

Pavel’s seven-concert residency at the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival showcased the breadth of his artistic vision. In addition to recitals and concertos with the Britten Sinfonia and Sinfonia of London, Pavel gave immersive performances with partner and pianist Samson Tsoy. The duo have since performed at Carnegie Hall, Barbican Centre and BOZAR.

Aldeburgh also saw the premiere of "Celestial Navigation" – a sequence of music featuring projections by architect Sophie Hicks and text by Martin Crimp. Pavel's other cross-genre collaborations include his realisation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations with dancer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker which has been staged over fifty times across Europe.

Pavel won the 2012 Honens Piano Competition and was a BBC New Generation Artist between 2014-16. He was artist-in-residence at Wigmore Hall during the 20/21 season, and has performed at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Berlin’s Konzerthaus, Klavier-Festival Ruhr and La Roque-d’Anthéron and Piano aux Jacobins festivals. His discography includes music by Reynaldo Hahn, Louis Couperin and Chopin.

Pavel is based in London

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Representation

General management with Askonas Holt

 Partner Managers: Interartists (Benelux)

Season Highlights

Jul 2024
Barbican Centre, London
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 London Symphony Orchestra part of Classical Pride
Sep 2024
Wigmore Hall
Chopin: Selected Waltzes, Nocturnes and Mazurkas Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat, D960
Sep 2024
Severance Music Center, Cleveland
Bach: Goldberg Variations part of The Cleveland Orchestra's Piano Series

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Pavel Kolesnikov © Eva Vermandel
Pavel Kolesnikov © Eva Vermandel
Pavel Kolesnikov © Eva Vermandel
Pavel Kolesnikov © Eva Vermandel
Pavel Kolesnikov © Eva Vermandel

Selected Repertoire

Bach, JSKeyboard Concerto in F major
BeethovenPiano Concertos No. 1-5
BrahmsPiano Concertos No. 1 & 2
BrittenPiano Concerto   •   Diversions for Piano Left Hand and Orchestra
ChopinPiano Concertos No. 1 & 2
GriegPiano Concerto
LisztPiano Concertos No. 1 & 2
MozartPiano Concertos No. 9, 17, 20 & 22
PärtLamentate
RachmaninovPiano Concerto No. 3   •   Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
RavelPiano Concerto for the Left Hand   •   Piano Concerto in G major
Saint-SaënsPiano Concerto No. 2
ShostakovichPiano Concertos No. 1 & 2
TchaikovskyPiano Concertos No. 1 & 2   •   Concert Fantasia

Sample Programmes

  • French Baroque and Chopin

    Chopin: Nocturne, Op.9 No.2 Duphly: Allemande from Deuxième Suite in C minor Duphly: La Boucon from Deuxième Suite in C minor Duphly: La Larare from Deuxième Suite in C minor Duphly: Rondeau from Deuxième Suite in C minor Duphly: La Millettina from Deuxième Suite in C minor Chopin: Prelude in E minor, Op.28 No.4 Rameau: Allemande in A minor Rameau: Courante in A minor Rameau: Les Soupirs Rameau: Les Tourbillons Rameau: L’egyptienne Rameau: Les Sauvages Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3

  • "Le Rayon vert"

    Mozart: Variations on a theme by Gluck Mozart: Adagio from Sonata in F, K280 Mozart: Piano Sonata in C, K330 Ravel: Oiseaux tristes from Miroirs Mozart: Rondo in A minor, K511 Ravel: Une barque sur l’océan from Miroirs Mozart: Rondo in F, K494 Ravel: Menuet antique Mozart: Rondo in D, K485 Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte

News

Press

  • Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    Jan 2024
    • **** Then on to the stage for Liszt’s concerto came the elfin, bespectacled figure of pianist Pavel Kolesnikov. You’d expect such a figure to produce a perfect limpid tone in the lyrical passages, and so he did, making the melody float out effortlessly from the left-hand accompaniment like a ripple on a lake. What was startling was the way Liszt’s virtuoso octaves emerged so thunderously from under his figures, and with so little appearance of effort. Part of the fascination of this piece is that you’re never sure whether the hellfire moments are serious or ironic, and that uncertainty was especially acute in Kolesnikov’s sly, knowing performance. At one point, he thundered up the keyboard and suddenly stopped dead – but with a nicely judged pause, hand thrown up in a fine imperious gesture. If you have to go down to Hell, go down in style.

    • ***** ...conductor and soloist achieved a persuasive integrity... [Kolesnikov] proceeded to deliver a perfectly calibrated performance, virtuosity always placed at the service of the music. Variously thunderous, though never harsh, tender in the dreamy nocturne and glittering in the final pages, he brought character to the work’s episodic structure, equally alive to brilliance and introspection. What particularly impressed was his integration with the orchestra, not least the woodwind players and Jesper Svedberg’s soulful cello. Further evidence of Kolesnikov’s artistry was demonstrated in a Chopin waltz, an encore of drawing room intimacy.