Piano Solo – Anna Vinnitskaya

South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son has been forced to cancel and is replaced by the Russian-born pianist Anna Vinnitskaya. Based in Hamburg, Vinnitskaya is a professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. The Washington Post has hailed her as a true “piano lion”, and Gramophone Magazine describes her playing as unforgettable.

In her debut at Konserthuset Stockholm, Anna Vinnitskaya presents a programme ranging from Ravel’s finely chiselled impressionism to the blazing virtuosity of Rachmaninoff. She opens with three of Ravel’s most beloved piano works: the classical Sonatine, the gently elegiac Pavane pour une infante défunte, and the sparkling Jeux d’eau. Scriabin’s Third Piano Sonata, with its intense emotional range and daring harmonies, offers a striking contrast.

After the interval come Brahms’s Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 – intimate pieces that draw the listener into a world of lyrical focus and introspection. The concert concludes with Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Corelli – in which a simple Baroque melody is transformed into a vast pianistic cosmos.