Arina Lazgiian: Piano Recital

Arina Lazgiian: Piano Recital

Russian pianist Arina Lazgiian was born in 1991. She is currently studying for an Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music with Prof. Vanessa Latarche (having completed her Master’s degree) and is supported by a Future of Russia Scholarship. In 2017, she won the College’s Concerto Competition and performed Saint-Saëns’ Concerto No.2 with the RCM Symphony Orchestra. She also won the Hopkinson Gold Medal for piano in 2017 and was a finalist in the Jaques Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition at Wigmore Hall. In June 2018, Arina Lazgiian won the Benjamin Britten Piano Fellowship for 2018/19, awarded by the RCM. This Fellowship supports an exceptional pianist who has been accepted on the RCM Artist Diploma Course.

From 2005-2010, Arina studied at the Moscow Gnessin Special Music School; and from 2010-2015, she studied at the Moscow Conservatory. Between 2007 and 2010, as a scholarship winner of the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation, she gave many concerts in Moscow. In 2005, Arina was given an honorary award by the mayor of St Petersburg. She has performed in the Grand Hall of St Petersburg’s Philharmonic Society, the Academic Capella and the Small Hall in Glazunov in St Petersburg, Salzburg, Germany and in the Salle Cortot and the Centre Spirituel et Culturel Russe in Paris.

Arina has won numerous competitions and prizes including the Yevgeniy Mravinsky Piano Competition, the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition and the Citta di Barletta International Piano Competition.

Her repertoire includes works by Scarlatti, Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns, Medtner, Scriabin, Brahms, Ravel, and Chopin.

Programme

Scarlatti
Sonata in D minor K.141
Sonata in D minor K.1
Sonata in D major K.430

Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales
i Modéré — très franc
ii Assez lent — avec une expression intense
iii Modéré
iv Assez animé
v Presque lent — dans un sentiment intime
vi Vif
vii Moins vif
viii Epilogue: lent

Chopin
Valse No.6 Op.64 No.1 in D flat major (‘Minute’)
Valse No.2 Op.64 in C sharp minor
Valse No.1 Op.69 in A flat major
Valse No.2 Op.69 in B minor
Valse in E major Op. Posth.

Medtner
Forgotten Tunes Cycle 1
‘Reminiscence Sonata’ Op.38

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