Cancelled: Alexander Toradze

The Georgian-American pianist in his first recital at Konserthuset.

With both powerful and poetically expressive playing, Georgian-born Aleksandr Toradze is one of the most in-demand pianists on the international concert scene.

He is known for his personal interpretations of the great Romantic repertoire and is also something of a specialist in Russian music. The programme for his debut recital at Konserthuset Stockholm includes Prokofiev’s unparalleled Piano Sonata No. 7 – powerful, rhythmic, almost brutal music which Toradze has truly made his own.

He has performed with most of the world’s top orchestras and conductors, and just a few days before his recital he will appear with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Two Pianos.

Toradze studied at the conservatory in Moscow, where he has also taught. He has lived in the US since 1983 and in addition to his career as a soloist, he is also known as a prominent professor and educator at Indiana University South Bend.