Since winning the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition at age 18, Ukrainian pianist Dinara Klinton has established herself as an exciting virtuoso with an international career. Her recordings include Liszt’s complete Transcendental Études and Prokofiev piano sonatas, and she has performed with the Royal Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Her Boston debut recital will consist of piano fantasies by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, and Scriabin.
Piano Masters Series is artistically directed by Michael Lewin and part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Artistry in Action Series.
Program InformationRepertoire
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Fantasy in C Minor, K. 475
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Fantasie-Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, op. 66
FRANZ LISZT: Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata
(from Années de pèlerinage, Book II—Italy)
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J.S. BACH: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Sonata quasi una Fantasia in C-sharp Minor, op. 27, no. 2
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN: Fantasie in B Minor, op. 28
About the Artist
After sharing the top prize at the 2006 Busoni Piano Competition at age 18, Dinara Klinton embarked on a busy international concert schedule, appearing at many festivals, including the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, the Cheltenham Music Festival, the Aldeburgh Proms, and La Roque d’Antheron. She has performed at many of the world’s major concert venues, including the Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, Berliner Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Gewandhaus Leipzig, New York’s 92nd Street Y, Cleveland’s Severance Hall, Tokyo’s Sumida Triphony Hall, Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. Her concerto engagements include the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Svetlanov State Orchestra, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Klinton combines her performing career with piano professor positions at the Royal College of Music and the Yehudi Menuhin School.
As a recording artist, she has received widespread critical acclaim. Her album of Liszt’s Études d'exécution transcendante, released by the German label GENUIN classics, resulted in dazzling reviews and was selected by BBC Music Magazine as a Recording of the Month. Klinton’s debut album, Music of Chopin and Liszt, was made at the age of 16 with the American label DELOS. Her third CD forms part of the renowned recording series of Chopin’s complete works on contemporary instruments released by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Poland. Her latest CD is Prokofiev Complete Piano Sonatas, released by Piano Classics.
Klinton’s music education started at the age of five in her native Kharkiv, Ukraine. She graduated with highest honours from the Moscow Central Music School under Valery Piassetski, and the Moscow State Conservatory P.I. Tchaikovsky under Eliso Virsaladze. She went on to complete her master’s degree at the Royal College of Music under Dina Parakhina and was the inaugural recipient of the highly prestigious RCM Benjamin Britten Fellowship during her artist diploma course and was supported by the City Music Foundation. Klinton also attended master classes at the Lake Como Piano Academy and worked with Boris Petrushansky at the Imola Piano Academy.
About the Series
Piano Masters Series is artistically directed by Michael Lewin and part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s
Artistry in Action series. The Artistry in Action series celebrates exceptional artists and initiatives that exemplify Boston Conservatory’s core values of excellence, innovation, and community engagement. Hosted by the Conservatory’s Music Division, Artistry in Action brings together the school’s prestigious and long-standing Piano Masters Series, String Masters Series, and Faculty Chamber Series with exciting new programming for winds, faculty recitals, and ensemble-in-residences. Learn more and view upcoming Artistry in Action events.Concert Services Staff
Assistant Director, Concert Services – Luis Herrera
Coordinator, Concert Services – Matthew Carey
Concert Production Manager – Kendall Floyd
Performance Technology Technicians – Sara Pagiaro, Goran Daskalov
Performance Technology Specialist – Andrei Radu
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