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Peter Laul: Complete Scriabin Sonatas

Flatiron, New York

Sun, November 19, 2023, at 5:00 PM, EST

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: Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided
Wheelchair access: Wheelchair Accessible

This is a private groupmuse.

A live, in-person performance in an intimate setting, only open to people whom the host invites.

Host

Jonathan D. Superhost

5 PM Doors & Pre-Reception
6 PM Performance
8:45 PM Post-Reception

Peter Laul: Complete Scriabin Sonatas

Gotham Arts in collaboration with Groupmuse is delighted to present an intimate private solo recital by pianist Peter Laul featuring the complete sonatas of Alexander Scriabin. All ten sonatas will be performed in three segments with two brief intermissions.

Wine will be served.

Program:

SCRIABIN Complete Piano Sonatas

Sonata No. 1 in f minor, Op. 6 (1892)
Sonata No. 2 in g-sharp minor, Op. 19 ("Sonata-Fantasy") (1897)
Sonata No. 3 in f-sharp minor, Op. 23 (1898)
Sonata No. 4 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 30 (1903)

Pause

Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 (1907)
Sonata No. 6, Op. 62 (1911–12)
Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 ("White Mass") (1912)

Pause

Sonata No. 8, Op. 66 (1912–13)
Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 ("Black Mass") (1913)
Sonata No. 10, Op. 70 (1913)

About the Artist

Watch Peter perform Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy at Moscow Conservatory

Peter Laul was born in 1977 in Leningrad. In 2000 he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory in the class of Alexander Sandler.

He has won prizes at the European Piano Competition Bremen (1995: 3rd prize and special prize for the best performance of a work by Bach; 1997: 1st prize and special prize for the best performance of a sonata by Schubert) and the Scriabin International Piano Competition in Moscow (2000: 1st prize). In 2003 he was presented with an honorary award by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation “For Achievements in Culture”.

Peter has performed at many venues in Russia, Germany, France, Great Britain, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands, Turkey, the USA, Brazil, and Japan, including at St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Steinway Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Opéra de Lyon, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Brucknerhaus in Linz, and Sala Verdi in Milan (Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano). He has taken part in festivals in Colmar and Saint-Riquier (France), the Progetto Marta Argerich Festival (Lugano), the Art November Festival (Moscow), the Printemps des Arts Festival (Monaco), the Stars of the White Nights Festival, the Mariinsky International Piano Festival, and the Arts Square Festival (St. Petersburg).

Orchestras with which Peter regularly collaborates include the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, as well as theatre orchestras in Dessau, Bremerhaven and Oldenburg.

Peter dedicates particular attention to chamber music. His regular partners have included Ilya Gringolts, Maxim Vengerov, Viktor Tretiakov, Graf Mourja, Alena Baeva, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Alexander Ghindin, Sergei Levitin, David Grimal, Laurent Korcia, and Marc Coppey.

Peter's discography includes several solo and chamber recordings for Naxos, Aeon, Onyx Classics, BIS, Harmonia Mundi, Querstand, Integral Classic, King Records and Northern Flowers. Among his most prominent recordings are works by Scriabin (2006), the complete Brahms piano trios and cello sonatas (2007, 2008), the complete Schumann violin sonatas and trios (2010), and the complete Stravinsky violin works (2016).

Since 2002 Peter has taught a special piano class at St. Petersburg Conservatory, where has has been associate professor since 2015, and at the Secondary Special Music School of St. Petersburg Conservatory.