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Prominent Russian concert pianist, conductor, and composer Mikhail Pletnev wil perform in Yerevan. The recital of Mikhail Pletnev will be in the framework of "Yerevan Perspectives" International Music Festival on May 10, at 19:30 at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall. The program includes Johan Sebastian Bach Organ Prelude, Edvard Grieg Piano Sonata E minor, Ballade op 24, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata in D major KV 311, Sonata in C Minor KV 457, Sonata in C Minor KV 457

The festival website reports, that Pletnev will perform for the first time in Armenia.

Mikhail Pletnev is an artist whose genius as pianist, conductor and composer enchants and amazes audiences around the globe.

Pletnev was Gold Medal and First Prize winner of the 1978 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition when he was only 21, a prize that earned him early recognition worldwide. In 1990 Pletnev formed the first independent orchestra in Russia's history, Russian National Orchestra website reports.

As a guest conductor, Pletnev appears regularly with leading orchestras such as London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In 2008 he was named first guest conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland.

As a composer, Pletnev's works include Classical Symphony, Triptych for Symphony Orchestra, Fantasy on Kazakh Themes and Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra. His unrivalled transcriptions for piano of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and Sleeping Beauty were selected, along with his performance of Tchaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto and The Seasons, for the 1998 anthology "Great Pianists of the 20th Century" (Philips Classics).

“Yerevan Perspectives” International Music festival is member of European Association member.