24.07.24
21C Welcomes Sergei Babayan
Sergei Babayan is thrilled to announce that he is now represented by 21C Media Group for press and digital media; his worldwide management remains with Felsner Artists. Having devoted decades to his distinguished teaching career, the Armenian American pianist is now expanding his own presence on the international stage. Over the coming months, he performs Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with Thailand’s Royal Bangkok Symphony (Aug 24), France’s Orchestre symphonique de l’Opéra de Toulon (Sep 19), and Belgium’s Antwerp Symphony, led by its Chief Conductor, Elim Chan (Dec 13 & 14). He previews “Songs,” an imaginatively curated new solo recital program, in England, South Korea, and China, before touring it extensively next season.
Babayan is active in the States this summer. He performs Mozart’s Ninth Piano Concerto, the “Jeunehomme,” at Maine’s Bowdoin International Music Festival (Aug 2) and gives solo recitals at Colorado’s International Keyboard Odyssiad & Festival (Aug 6) and Canada’s Vancouver Piano Sessions (Aug 9). These August engagements follow returns earlier this season to Bravo! Vail, where his residency combined a solo recital with a program of Rachmaninoff piano duos, performed with his former student and frequent duo partner Daniil Trifonov, and the Aspen Music Festival, where he and Trifonov reprised their program. “The firepower they achieved together is rare among piano duos,” writes the New York Times of their partnership, while BBC Music magazine hails their recent recording of Rachmaninoff’s duos as “a winning mix of limitless pianism, deep knowledge and visionary boldness.”
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