Piano Recital: Vitaly Pisarenko

Winner in some of the most important piano competitions, including the Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht and the Leeds International Piano Competition, Vitaly Pisarenko has been critically acclaimed as a pianist of an unusually soft touch, prodigious technique and captivating expressiveness. The Ukrainian-born pianist has given recitals at prestigious venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and has appeared as a soloist with such renowned orchestras as the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the KBS Symphony Orchestra, among others.

The Pharos Arts Foundation opens its 2026 season with the return of this phenomenal pianist in a recital that will bring together Schubert’s Four Impromptus D.935, written in the final year of the composer’s life and representing some of his most expansive writing for solo piano, with two major virtuoso piano paraphrases by Liszt: Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture and Bellini’s Réminiscences de Norma, both exemplifying the composer’s role in reworking operatic drama and orchestral colour into large-scale pianistic masterpieces.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

4 Impromptus D.935, Op.142 (1827)

 

Interval 

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) / Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Tannhäuser Overture – Concert Paraphrase, S.442 (1847-49)

 

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) / Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

Réminiscences de Norma – Grande fantaisie, S.394 (1841)

 

VITALY PISARENKO piano
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