New Generation Piano Recital – Valentin Malinin
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- Prices
- €0
- Date
- 18 February 2026 – 8:30pm
- Place
- Auditorium
- Hours
- 8.30 p.m.
A revelation at the 2023 Tchaikovsky Competition and the prestigious 2025 French Riviera Masters, the prodigious Valentin Malinin now captivates music lovers worldwide with his virtuosity and stage presence.
This concert will be broadcast live on FLV Play and deferred on Radio Classique. Replays will be available on all these platforms.
Valentin Malinin follows in the footsteps of the great Russian piano tradition, distinguished by the depth of his playing and his heightened sensitivity. As a counterpoint to the Gerhard Richter exhibition and the six canvases entitled "Cage" in homage to the American composer, the 24-year-old musician delves this evening into the visionary work of John Cage, presenting a collection of major works for piano and prepared piano (fitted with objects to alter its timbre). As a bonus, our young star, who is also a composer, concludes his recital with a work of his own creation.
Detailed programme:
“Music of changes”
- John Cage
Metamorphosis (1938) - Henry Cowell
The Banshee (1925) - John Cage
Quest (1935) - Karina Baras
Echoes (1997) - John Cage
The Perilous Night (1944) - Valentin Malinin
Countertrend (2024)
première audition mondiale - John Cage
Ophelia (1946) - Henry Cowell
Aeolian Harp (1923) - John Cage
In a Landscape (1948)
Valentin Malinin
Valentin Malinin was revealed with brilliance to the top international scene in summer 2023 as he won the second prize at the XVII Tchaikovsky International Competition, just a few months after his victory at the 25th Scriabin International Piano Competition in Italy, where he was also awarded the special prize ‘for the best performance of Scriabin's music’. In November 2025, he received the Grand Prix at the elite International Piano Competition in Nice ‘French Riviera Masters’. The jury of the competition was headed by the Canadian pianist Hélène Mercier.
His international recognition started since a very young age, at only 17 years old he won the Vladimir Krainev Moscow International Piano Competition and two years later he conquered the Jaén Prize, the oldest competition in Spain.
Valentin is the guest of venues and festivals such as the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Mariinsky Theatre, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Rheingau Musik Festival, Rafael Orozco Piano Festival, ‘Pianissimo’ International Piano Festival; he has also toured in Austria, Hungary, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, China, South Korea.
Valentin plays under the baton of conductors including Vladimir Spivakov, Alexander Sladkovsky, Manuel Valdivieso, Salvador Vásquez, Yury Simonov and with orchestras such as the State Academic Symphony Orchestra ‘Evgeny Svetlanov’, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Nice Philharmonic Orchestra among many others.
Malinin graduated from the Central Music School at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class Mira Marchenko. He continued his studies in Berlin with professor Kirill Gerstein in Hanns Eisler School of Music, and currently he studies at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with professor Ksenia Knorre.
Valentin Malinin is also an award-winning composer, studying composition since childhood with Karina Baras, he has written music for piano, chamber ensembles, choir and orchestra. In the beginning of December 2022, the pianist released a CD for Naxos with music by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Granados and his own piano fantasy ‘The Pearl Fishers’, based on Nadir’s Romance from Bizet’s opera ‘Les Pêcheurs de perles’. In April 2023, he won the Grand-Prix at the First All-Russian Composition Competition of the School-studio of Contemporary Art for the cycle for violin and piano "Memories in the twilight of a whiff”.
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