The brilliant Russian pianist Andrey Pisare, a previous winner of among others a Unisa International Piano Competition who is currently on a South African concert tour, will perform at Unisa on Sunday 9 November.
The concert starts at 16:00 and takes place in the Enoch Sontonga Hall on Unisa’s Sunnyside campus.
The programme consists of popular but demanding piano literature: Mozart’s Fantasy in D minor and Rondo in D major, Beethoven’s Sonata in C minor, Op 111, as well as a Novelette by Schumann.
The second half of the programme consists of works by the Polish master Chopin: The Nocturne in E minor, Op 72 no 2 and all four Scherzos.
In October 2006 the reviewer Gunilla Boström wrote in the Swedish newspaper “Helsingborgs Dagblad”: "In April 2004 I believed that Andrey Pisarev was the best pianist I have ever heard, and this opinion remains after his recital… The expression “World pianist” is not an exaggeration regarding him ..."
Pisarev’s first international success came in 1991, at the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, where the young Russian pianist won the exceptional Grand Prize. It was the first time since 1956 that Grand Prize had been awarded in this competition.
Besides the Mozart Competition, Andrey Pisarev won the First Prize in the Rachmaninov Piano Competition (Moscow 1983) as well as the First Prize in the Unisa Transnet International Piano Competition (Pretoria 1992).
The competitions opened the doors of the most prestigious concert halls for the artist and brought engagements from the world’s best symphony orchestras, such as Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, RAI Orchestra Milan, Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Solo recitals as well as concerts with the orchestras were acclaimed by the audience and critics in the USA, South and Central America, Europe, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, besides all Russia.
Currently he is a Professor at the Moscow Conservatory and he has also held master-classes in Japan, USA and Yugoslavia, France, Brazil and other countries. Since 2013 he is the Dean of the Piano Faculty at the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatoire.
Pisarev was on the juries of the Gina Bachauer competition in 2002 and 2003, Salt Lake City, George Enescou Competition in 2011 in Bucharest, Hamamatsu International Piano Competition 2012 as well as the Unisa International Piano Competition in Pretoria in 2012.
Tickets for the concert are sold only at the door for R95 (adults) and R75 (students and pensioners).
For more information contact Alet Joubert, Unisa Music Foundation