Andrei Gologan - poet of piano playing

Romanian pianist Andrei Gologan received his first piano lessons at the age of five. After his first years in Romania, he continued his musical education at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Pavel Gililov. He has won prizes at numerous international competitions, including the Horowitz International Piano Competition Kyiv and the Lions European Music Competition in Istanbul, and has received scholarships from renowned music academies such as the Verbier Festival Academy, the Oxford Piano Festival and the International Music Academy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. In demand as a soloist, Andrei Gologan performs with the Camerata Salzburg, the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and is a regular guest at major festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Mozartwoche Salzburg, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the SWR Festival Schwetzingen, the Heidelberger Frühling and the Enescu Festival Bucharest. Concerts have taken him to the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Wigmore Hall in London and the Berlin Philharmonie.

Program
Komitas Vardapet: from Seven Songs
Alexander Scriabin: Prelude op. 22 no. 3, Mazurka op. 25 no. 3, Poème op. 32 no. 2
Johannes Brahms - Selection of songs, arranged for piano solo by Max Reger
George Enescu - Piano Sonata No. 3 in D major op. 24
Johannes Brahms - Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor op. 5

photo © Florin Ghenade