PERFORMANCE: Vendome Prize Winner To Showcase Brahms and Schumann on January 20th

Jan 14

Pianist Daumants Liepins, Winner of the 2019 Vendome Prize at the Verbier Festival, is coming to Opera America for a special program of works by Schumann and Brahms on Monday, January 20th, 2020. The Vendome Prize guides future professional artists who are “technically perfect, magnetic, original, ambitious, in possession of a large repertoire and ready to undertake the challenges of a performing career.” You won’t want to miss this performance!

Daumants is one of the most promising pianists of his generation. He has established himself already as one of the core musicians in his country. He is the first prize winner of Maria Canals International Piano Competition and Nordic Piano Competition, as well as laureate of the top prizes of George Enescu, James Mottram piano competitions and Tbilisi International Piano Competition, where he also received the Special Prize for Artistry.

Besides regular solo performances in different parts of the world, Daumants has performed with several symphony orchestras, including Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony orchestra, Romanian National Symphony Orchestra, Georgian National Symphony Orchestra, Kaunas Symphony orchestra.

His future engagements among others include debut recitals in major festivals like Verbier, Riga Jurmala and Enescu festival, recordings on Steinway, Naxos and other labels, orchestra tours with tours with major Spanish orchestras and a season-opening concert with Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.

Immediately after the performance, Zsolt Bognar, host of Living the Classical Life, will interview Daumants Liepins and then preside over an Industry Roundtable Panel titled: Piano Competitions in the Digital Age. A full reception will take place after the panel concludes.

Details:

Monday, January 20, 2020 at 6:30pm Opera America

330 7th Ave., 7th Floor (at 29th Street) New York, NY 10001

There will be a champagne reception before the concert at 6:30pm and the concert will start at 6:45pm. Learn more about this event and get tickets here.