PATHWAYS FROM SCARLATTI 

TO SKORYK

Under the Honourary Patronage of 
the Embassy of Ukraine

Serhiy Salov, piano

“Breathtaking, with fire running from one end of the keyboard to the other.” (Le Soleil)

Ukrainian-born Serhiy Salov received his early musical training at the Special Music School of Donetsk studying piano, composition and improvisation. At the age of 11 he gave his debut as a soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. In 1994 he went to Germany to study at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, where his teachers there were Tibor Szasz and Michel Beroff. Serhiy has garned prizes from the very start of his career, from First Prize at the Grotrian - Steinweg Piano Competition in Braunschweig, Germany in 1995 to claiming First Prize in the Montreal International Piano Competition in 2004. In 2006 he was a finalist in the Honens International Piano Competition.

Programme:  SCARLATTI Sonata in E major, K 380 L 23;  CHOPIN  Ballade in G. minor, Op. 23; LIGETI  2 Études - Arc en Ciel . Fanfare; STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring (arranged by Serhiy Salov ); SKORYK Kolomyika, Pisnya Bojka (from the piano cycle "In the Carpathian Mountains"); LYSENKO Second Rhapsody, Dumka-Shumka, Op. 18;  BEETHOVEN Waldstein Sonata