Carnegie Hall

(NEW YORK, NY; March 15, 2023)—Carnegie Hall today announced that French pianist and 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition gold medalist Alexandre Kantorow has been added to its 2023-2024 season, making his Carnegie Hall recital debut in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Sunday, October 22 at 2:00 p.m. Mr. Kantorow’s debut recital will include works by Brahms, Bach, Liszt, and Schubert. (Please see below for complete program information.) This performance replaces the previously announced October 22 recital by pianist Maurizio Pollini who regrettably must withdraw from the Hall’s upcoming season.

Carnegie Hall subscription packages for the 2023–2024 season are currently available. Single tickets for 2023–2024 performances go on sale to Carnegie Hall subscribers and members on Monday, August 14 at 11:00 a.m., and to the general public on Monday, August 21 at 11:00 a.m.

Ticketholders with any questions can call CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or email feedback@carnegiehall.org.  

About the Artist
Alexandre Kantorow has been hailed by critics as the “young tsar of the piano” (Classica) and a “fire-breathing virtuoso with a poetic charm” (Gramophone). In 2019, at the age of 22, he was the first French pianist to win first place and the gold medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition as well as the Grand Prix, awarded only three times before in the competition's history.

Mr. Kantorow began his professional career at an early age. At 16, he made his debut at La Folle Journée festival in Nantes, France and, since then, has played with many of the world’s major orchestras. Highlights in recent and future seasons include concerts with the Boston, Montreal, and Pittsburgh symphony orchestras, The Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Staatskapelle Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic as well as tours with the Orchestre National de France, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Munich Philharmonic amongst others.

In recital, Mr. Kantorow appears at major concert halls such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw in their Master Pianists series, Konzerthaus Berlin, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Philharmonie de Paris, Bozar in Brussels, Stockholm Konserthus, regularly across Asia and at the most prestigious festivals including La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, Verbier Festival, and Klavier-Festival Ruhr.

Chamber music is also one of the pianist’s great pleasures and he regularly performs with artists including Victor Julien-Laferrière, Renaud Capuçon, Daniel Lozakovich, and Matthias Goerne.

Mr. Kantorow records exclusively for BIS Records. In 2022, he received a double Diapason d’Or for his latest releases of solo works by Brahms and Saint-Saëns’s piano concertos nos. 1 and 2. In 2020, he won the Victoires de la Musique Classique in two categories: Recording of the Year and Instrumental Soloist of the Year.


Program Information
Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 2:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Alexandre Kantorow, Piano

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 1
BACH Chaconne in D Minor from Violin Partita No. 2, BWV 1004 (arr. for piano left hand by Brahms)
LISZT "Der Wanderer" from 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert
LISZT "Der Müller und der Bach" from Müllerlieder von Franz Schubert
LISZT "Frühlingsglaube" from 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert
LISZT "Die Stadt" from Lieder aus Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang
LISZT "Am Meer" from Lieder aus Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang
SCHUBERT Fantasy in C Major, D. 760, "Wanderer Fantasy"

 

 

Ticket Information

Carnegie Hall subscription packages for the 2023–2024 season are currently on sale. Single tickets for 2023–2024 performances go on sale to Carnegie Hall subscribers and members on Monday, August 14 at 11:00 a.m., and to the general public on Monday, August 21 at 11:00 a.m.

Tickets will be available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800, or online at carnegiehall.org. Artists, programs, dates, and prices are subject to change.

 

Photo: Alexandre Kantorow by Sasha Gusov