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Payam Pahlevanian DMA Piano Recital

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Program

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

• En rêve, S. 207
• Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata
• Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
• Transcendental Étude No. 10 in F minor, “Appassionata”

Intermission

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)

• Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)

• Étude in D minor, Op. 2, No. 1
• Selections from Visions fugitives, Op. 22
• Toccata in D minor, Op. 11

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Payam Pahlevanian is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the guidance of Prof. Jessica Johnson and Christopher Taylor, where he holds a Teaching Assistantship.

Born in Tehran, he began playing the piano at the age of 14 and gave his first solo recital at 18 under the tutelage of Tamar Dolidze. In 2009, Mr. Pahlevanian moved to Germany and commenced his musical education at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, studying with the renowned pianist Anatol Ugorski and becoming his assistant and final student. He further refined his skills under the guidance of Bob Versteegh and Peter Orth and in masterclasses with outstanding musicians such as András Schiff, Sergei Edelmann, Dina Ugorskaja, Ivan Klansky, Matti Raekallio, Gottlieb Wallisch, Martin Hughes, Wilhelm Schnurr, and Günter Ludwig.

Mr. Pahlevanian is a highly awarded pianist, earning prestigious prizes at various competitions. Notably, he received first prize and a special prize for the best interpretation of a work by Frédéric Chopin at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition in Düsseldorf. He has performed with the Hanover Medical School Orchestra, the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. In November 2015, he was featured on the West German Broadcasting radio station in Cologne. He has given solo recitals in Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Kassel, Freiburg, Bielefeld, Osnabruck, Detmold, Tehran, and Shiraz, among others.

From 2017 to 2023, Mr. Pahlevanian was a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany. He possesses an extensive and diverse solo and chamber music repertoire, encompassing works ranging from classical, romantic, and modern piano literature to Persian folk songs.