Name: Grigory Sokolov (piano)
Start: 2026-07-23T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-23
Location: Musica Mundi School

Grigory  Sokolov (piano)

The Musica Mundi Festival is an integral part of the course. This is why the choice of the Artists is vital to complete the educational target. Among the artists who are already members of the big Musica Mundi family are: Ivry Gitlis, Maxim Vengerov, Yvgeny Kissin, Nikolai Luganski, Mischa Maisky, Joshua Bell, Menahem Pressler, Nicholas Angelich, Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich, Steven Isserlis, The King’s Singers, Jordi Savall, Fazil Say... In summer 2001, His Majesty King Philippe honoured Musica Mundi with a visit. In 2003, 2008, 2013 and 2018 Her Majesty Queen Mathilde granted Musica Mundi her High Patronage and in 2011 visited herself the course together with Princess Elisabeth.Since its creation, Musica Mundi has been a source of inspiration for many journalists and media partners. In summer 2013 a full length documentary was filmed by the RTBF and the VRT and broadcasted all over the world.

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Musica Mundi Festival 2026

28th International Course and Festival Musica Mundi 2026 - 9 concerts - 19 July to 2 August 202§

<p>The unique, unrepeatable nature of music made in the present moment is central to understanding the expressive beauty and compelling honesty of Grigory Sokolov’s art. The Russian pianist’s poetic interpretations, which come to life with mystical intensity in performance, arise from profound knowledge of the works in his vast repertoire. His recital programmes span everything from transcriptions of medieval sacred polyphony and keyboard works by Byrd, Couperin, Rameau, Froberger to the music of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms and landmark twentieth-century compositions by Prokofiev, Ravel, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Schoenberg and Stravinsky. He is widely recognized among pianophiles as one of today’s greatest pianists. Grigory Sokolov was born in Leningrad on 18 April 1950. He started to play piano at the age of five and, two years later, began studies with Liya Zelikhman at the Central Special School of the Leningrad Conservatory. He went on to receive lessons from Moisey Khalfin at the Leningrad Conservatory, and gave his debut recital in Leningrad in 1962. Sokolov’s prodigious talent was recognized in 1966 when at 16, he became the youngest musician ever to receive the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Sokolov began to appear at Europe’s leading concert halls and festivals. He performed extensively as concerto soloist with orchestras of the highest calibre, working with among others the New York Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia London, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the Munich Philharmonic, before deciding to focus exclusively on giving solo recitals. Sokolov performs around 70 concerts each season, immersing himself fully in a single programme and touring extensively throughout Europe. Unlike many pianists, Sokolov takes the closest interest in the mechanism and set-up of the instruments he plays. </p>

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