Piano Recital by Celebrated Kazakh pianist Amir Tebenikhin 9th May 2:30pm Jesus College

Victory Day Piano Recital

by

Amir Tebenikhin

200th anniversary of Franz Chopin and Robert Schumann

Time: 2:30pm (doors are open at 2:00 pm)
Day: 9th of May (Sunday)
Venue: The Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge

Amir Tebenikhin will play-

J. S. Bach : Französische Suite Nr. 5 G-Dur BWV 816
R. Schumann : Sonate Nr. 3 f-moll op. 14
F. Chopin : 4 Scherzi : Nr. 1 h-moll op. 20
Nr. 2 b-moll op. 31
Nr. 3 cis-moll op. 39
Nr. 4 E-Dur op. 54

Admission: free (if you so wish, retiring contribution will be collected)

Please RSVP to Prajakti Kalra pk315@cam.ac.uk by 6th of May 2010.

Organized by Equipes de Sogdiana
Cambridge Central Asia Forum
Cambridge Kazakh Society
British-Kazakh Society
Cambridge Kazakhstan Centre
Kazakh British Academy

Amir Tebenikhin was born in 1977. He began to study the piano with his
father, Vladimir Tebenikhin, and later with Jania Aubakirova, Aida Isakova
and Michail Balabitchev at Baiseitova Music College in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
>From 1996 he studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire with Mikhail
Voskressensky. Since 2004 Mr. Tebenikhin moved to Musikhochschule,
Hannover, to continue his studies with Karl-Heinz Kammerling.

Amir Tebenikhin was awarded the First Prize at the George Enescu
International Piano Competition 2009 in Bucharest, Romania. In 1999 Mr.
Tebenikhin won the First Prize in XIII Vianna da Motta International Music
Competition in Lisbon. Other prestigious prizes include Special Prize at
the 56th Geneva International Piano Competition, Laureate at the Queen
Elisabeth Piano Competition in Brussels in 2003, 2nd Prize and the Special
Prize for The Best Interpretation of a Concerto with Orchestra at the 1st
C. Bechstein International Piano Competition in Essen, Germany, 1st Prize
at the Third Anton Rubinstein International Piano Competition 2007 in
Dresden, Germany.

Mr. Tebenikhin has concertised in major halls of the world such as Carnegie
Hall (New York), Wigmore Hall (London) and Salle-Pleyel and Salle-Cortot
(Paris). He has frequent appearances in music Festivals as well as
performances with orchestras, including the Gulbenkian Symphony Orchestra,
Orchestre National de Belgique, Scottish National Symphony Orchestra,
Sendai Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi with V. Spivakov, Kazakh State
Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, European Union Youth
Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, just to name a few.

This season for Mr.Tenikhin began with the First Prize at the George Enescu
International Piano Competition 2009 and the Winner of Enescu Competition
Gala-Concert in September, continueing with appearances at Kennedy Center,
Washington D.C.and The Times Center, New York in October and the Winner of
Enesco Competition Concert in London in November.

In Germany, where he is currently a resident, the season so far continues
in Buekeburg, Hannover, Darmstadt, Bentheim , Wiesbaden; Bad Pyrmont,
Buchholz, Hamburg, Berlin, as well as performances organised by Bluethner
and Bechstein. Mr Tebenikhin also performed at Vienna Hofburg-palace in
January this year.

Mr. Tebenikhin is invited to take part this May in Klavierfestival-Ruhr,
Germany, and a tour in Japan.

Other concerts will take place during this season alone,in
Bucharest,Vilinus, Astana, Petropavlovsk, Kazan, Moscow, Friburg, Hanover
and a Chopin festival in Poland in the summer.

He has been invited to participate in the Enescu festival in 2011 in
Romania.

Mr. Tebenikhin has recorded for Naxos, Classical Records (Russia) and K&K
Independent Label (Germany).