Nikolai Medvedev’s plans for the concert activities in 2024:

In 2024 Nikolai Medvedev’s concert activities will focus on Germany. Numerous cities that represent cultural and especially musical life will be stops on his tour: Berlin, Hamburg, Rostock, Dresden, Leipzig, Mannheim, etc. Each concert programme is unique and tries to fulfil the preferences of the diverse audience. As Nikolai Medvedev has a profound knowledge of music history, the historical background of each city is taken into account. Berlin, with its turbulent history and international ambience, openness to the new and surprising as well as its excellent concert halls, offers a great setting for Nikolai Medvedev’s art of playing: Beethoven and Brahms, Prokofiev and Ligeti, Romanticism and Modernism – all this is combined in an incomparable performance. Which cities could be a better venue for a performance of works by Bach and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Schumann and Liszt than Dresden with its wonderful Robert and Clara Schumann Halls or Leipzig with the Mendelssohn House, the places where these great composers worked? Hamburg, with its baroque and classical churches, post-modern glass façades and beautiful art nouveau buildings, witnesses Nikolai Medvedev’s masterly performance art with works by Haydn and Schubert, Poulenc and Stravinsky. The pianist’s concerts present a carefully chosen programme, a rare balance between virtuosity and musical ambition, a synthesis of interpretative skills and a solid knowledge of musical phenomena. This transforms Nikolai Medvedev’s performances into a unique aesthetic pleasure.