Konstantin Lapshin
concert pianist
"Konstantin Lapshin's performance gave me real pleasure. He's got a special edge in his performance, he makes the whole audience feel the music the way he does, because he has his own attitude to the piece performed. He has a lot to get across to the audience.. And this is the main thing"…
Mikhail Pletnev, pianist, conductor, composer
“A very special talent”
Murray Perahia, pianist
…“A big, impressive technique, and the impulsive, Romantic expression that has been a hallmark of so many Russian pianists, including Rachmaninov and Horowitz”…
Fanfare Magazine (USA)
"K. Lapshin is lavishing the ear with exquisite tonal shading, elegant inner voicing and a unique, but firm pulse"
Peter Burwasser, Fanfare
"Eloquent playing of great character. Our collaboration on Rachmaninov's 3rd concerto was one that I will remember for many years. This is a performer to watch out for."
Peter Stark, conductor, Professor, Royal College of Music, London
"Konstantin is an aristocratic pianist with a keen sense of musical awareness and virtuosity".
Vanessa Latarche, Head of Keybord, Professor, Royal College of Music, London
«…Konstantin Lapshin doté d’une respiration large et brave, d’une tête bien faite, d’un « cœur » (comme l’eut dit la critique d’autrefois) dûment accroché à cette tête – bravo»!
Bertrand Bolognesi, Anaclase
«Konstantin est d’une simplicité qui fait du bien et il rayonne dans cette simplicité. Il est direct dans son interprétation, élégant naturellement, il a encore beaucoup de fraîcheur, de poésie, son toucher de piano est tour à tour puissant sans être brutal, sans débordement, retenu et doux, avec de la délicatesse sans mièvrerie. Au bout de trois notes on sait déjà qui il interprète. Et tout celà nous paraît si naturel! C’est un artiste authentique. On ne parle plus de technique, de contrôle, ce qu’il donne va bien au-delà!… J’ai été très émue, presqu’aux larmes… »
Claude Perin
«L’interprète paraît improviser ces pages, les inventer sous nos yeux : une telle aisance est rare.»
LIVE from Salle Cortot, March 2015
Produced by Les Amis de Marie-Laure (Paris)
PAST EVENTS:
28/10/2012 - RECITAL IN CROTONE(ITALY) FOR BEETHOVEN ACAM SOCIETY
07/11/2012 - RECITAL AT ST.MARY'S PERIVALE (LONDON)
16/11/2012-RECITAL AT ASSEMBLY ROOMS(LINCOLN)
10/12/2012 - RECITAL AT ST. LAWRENCE JEWRY(LONDON)
DECEMBER 2012 - JURY MEMBER AT SCHUMANN PRIZE INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION IN LAMPORRECCHIO (ITALY)
2013
11/01/13 - RECITAL AT PUSHKIN HOUSE (LONDON)
20/01/2013 RECITAL AT PUMP ROOM (BATH PIANO RECITAL SERIES)
27/01/01 PERFORMANCE AT SCHUBERT FESTIVAL LONDON
23-28/02/2013- MOROCCO-CONCERT TOUR
8/03/2013-RECITAL IN BIBLIOTEKA BOGOLYUBOVA (MOSCOW)
22/03/2013-RECITAL IN COPENHAGEN,ROSSISK CENTER
24/03/2013- RECITAL IN COPENHAGEN, SIMON PETERS KIRKE
6/04/2013- RECITAL IN LINCOLN ASSAMBLY ROOM
1/05/2013 -MASTERCLASS IN BRIGHTON COLLEGE
11/05/2013 - CHOPIN FESTIVAL LONDON
12/05/2013 - RECITAL IN FAIRFIELDS HALL CROYDON
28/05/2013-CONCERT IN BATH (FRINGE FESTIVAL)
7/06/2013-LUNCHTIME RECITAL WITH METAMUSICA TRIO (DUNJA LAVROVA-VIOLINE, JAMES BARALLET-CELLO) LONDON, ST JAMES SMITH PICCADILLY
8-12 JUNE - MOROCCO, FEZ MUSIC FESTIVAL
22/06/2013 -PRIVATE CONCERT IN LLANDEILO
27/06/2013- RACHMANINOV AND TCHAIKOVSKIY PIANO TRIOS WITH ENSEMBLE 'METAMUSICA' IN ST. MARY'S , SWANAGE
16/07/2013- RECITAL AT THE LLANDEILO FESTIVAL
13/08/2013- RECITAL AT THE LANSDOWNE CLUB, LONDON
08/09/2013- RECITAL AT THE ST MARY'S PERIVALE WITH A VIOLINIST DUNJA LAVROVA
13/09/2013- RECITAL IN LLANDEILO
05/10/2013- A PERFORMANCE IN LLANDEILO WITH ANDREW DOUGLAS - FORBES
16/10/2013- PERFORMANCE AT LEIGHTON HOUSE (LONDON) WITH MADELEINE MITCHELL (VIOLIN) AND JAMES BARALLET (CELLO)
13/10/2013-RECITAL IN BRISTOL (AT CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL)
27/10/2013-PERFORMANCE WITH THE ORCHESTRA 'SINFONIA MUSICISTI' AT STEVENAGE (TCHAIKOVSKY CONCERTO NO.1)
28/10/2013- RECITAL AT ST LAWRENCE JEWRY LONDON
OCTOBER 2013- PERFORMANCE WITH CROTONE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, CROTONE(IT)
24/01/2014- CONCERT WITH 'SACCONI QUARTET' AT THE RCM (LONDON)
28/02/2014- HOSTING THE FIRST DAY OF THE 'RUSSIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL' AT THE RCM- RACHMANINOV
9/03/2014- PIANO SHOWCASE AT FORGE (LONDON)
Beethoven Sonata op. 110 live from St James´s Piccadilly (Beethoven Piano Society of Europe), November 2020
NEWS:
KONSTANTIN HAS BEEN INVITED TO ADJUDICATE THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION 'IN MEMORY OF VERA LOTAR - SHEVCHENKO' IN EKATERINBURG (RUSSIA)
UPCOMING EVENTS
09/09//2020 - SOLO RECITAL FOR 'LES AMIS DE MARIE-LAURE' (PARIS)
04/10/2020 - BEETHOVEN SONATA FESTIVAL (ST MARY'S PERIVALE, LONDON)
26/10/2020 - BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL (LONDON, ST JAMES PICCADILLY ( BEETHOVEN PIANO SOCIETY OF EUROPE)
19/02/2021 - PERFORMANCE SOLO AND WITH JOAQUIN SOFREDINI (COUNTERTENOR) IN ENTRE RIOS (ARGENTINA)
15/06/2021, 17/06/2021 - SOLO RECITALS FOR 'AMIGOS DE MUSICA' OS AGOSTOS (PORTUGAL)
27/08/2021 - 10/09/2021 - JURY MEMBER 8TH INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION IN MEMORY OF V. LOTAR - SHEVCHENKO (EKATERINBURG, RUSSIA)
02/10/2021 - PERFPRMANCE AT THE ´BEETHOVEN SONATA´ FESTIVAL (LONDON, ST. MARY´S PERIVALE)
06-09/10/2021 - Chair of the Jury 'Stars of the Albion' International Competition (London)
02/12/2021 - SOLO RECITAL 'WELCOME TO THE LIGHT' , GUEST ARTIST - COUNTERTENOR JOAQUIN SOFREDINI) (LONDON, CHELSEA)
12/02/2022 - SOLO RECITAL FOR 'LES AMIS DE MARIE-LAURE' (PARIS)
February - PERFORMANCES AND CD RECORDING (SWEDEN) DATES AND PLACES TBC
25/03/2022 - SOLO RECITAL AT THE FESTIVAL 'FOOTPRINTS ON THE SNOW' (MOSCOW)
29/03/2022 - SOLO RECITAL AT ST MARY'S PERIVALE (LONDON)
12/04/2022 - SOLO RECITAL AS PART OF THE FESTIVAL ‘VICTORIA AL PIANO’ IN VICTORIA, ENTRE RIOS, ARGENTINA
19/04/2022 - RECITAL AT THE TEATRO З DE FEBRERO IN PARANA (ARGENTINA)
13/06/2022 - ADJUDICATING BMUS 3 PIANO EXAMS AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC
25-30/07/2022 - MASTERCLASSES AT KING’S COLLEGE (LONDON) FOR ‘ENHUI’ MUSIC ACADEMY
18/09/2022 - PRIVATE RECITAL IN LESA (ITALY), SOLO AND WITH JOAQUIN SOFFREDINI, COUNTERTENOR
24/09/2022 - SOLO RECITAL IN COPENHAGEN, MUSICHUSET (DENMARK),
2022 - SOLO RECITAL AT 'LES MUSICALES DE CROISSY' (FRANCE)
24,26/03/2023 - RECITALS IN OS AGOSTOS (PORTUGAL) SOLO AND WITH JOAQUIN SOFREDINI)
8/03/2023 - CHAIR OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY OF THE 9TH ‘STARS OF THE ALBION’ MUSIC COMPETITION (LONDON)
JULY 2023 (DATE TBC) - RECITAL AT THE MARYLEBONE THEATRE
26/07/2023 - RECITAL WITH JOAQUIN SOFREDINI AS PART OF THE KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA FESTIVAL, ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, LONDON
09/09/2023 - RECITAL 'OMAGGIO A RACHMANINOV' (LESA, ITALY)
14/10/2023 - RECITAL FOR 'LES AMIS DE MARIE-LAURE' (PARIS)
16/11/2023 - RECITAL SOLO AND WITH JOAQUIN SOFREDINI (COUNTERTENOR), LONDON, ST JOHN THE BAPTIST HOLLAND ROAD
10/12/2023 - MESSAIEN QUATUOR POUR LA FIN DU TEMPS , LONDON, CLARENDON EVENTS
PAST CONCERTS
- - - 2019 - - -
22/01/2019 2 PM - RECITAL AT ST MARY PERIVALE (LONDON)
01/03/2019 6 PM - ALBUM LAUNCH NAXOS/ GRACE WILLIAMS CHAMBER MUSIC. CITY UNIVERSITY PERFORMANCE SPACE, COLLEGE BUILDING. WITH MADELEINE MITCHELL
https://www.city.ac.uk/events/calendar#show/equalTo/1-Mar-2019
05/03/2019 6;30 PM - RECITAL UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CLUB, 2 AUDLEY SQUARE, LONDON, W1K
08/03/2019 - LUNCHTIME RECITAL WITH MADELEINE MITCHELL STOUTZKER HALL RWCMD (MUSIC BY Lili BOULANGER, REBECCA CLARKE, GRACE WILLIAMS, SADIE HARRISON, JUDITH WEIR
https://www.rwcmd.ac.uk/whats_on/events/century_of_women_composers.aspx
22/03/2019 - LUNCHTIME RECITAL WITH MADELEINE MITCHELL UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SERIES - ELGAR AND GRACE WILLIAMS VIOLIN SONATAS
07/04/2019 - SCHOSTAKOVICH PIANO CONCERTO NO.1 FOR PIANO AND TRUMPET WESTDEUTSCHE SINFONIA WITH DIRK JOERES (LEVERKUSSEN)
08/04/2019 - 14/04/2019 - JURY MEMBER SCHUMANN PRIZE INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION (LAMPORECCHIO, ITALY)
18/05/2019 - ADJUDICATING THE KENDALL TAYLOR BEETHOVEN PIANO COMPETITION (RCM, LONDON)
21/06/2019 - RECITAL WITH ANDREW DOUGLAS-FORBES (ABERGLASNEY, WALES)
07/07/2019 - SOLO RECITAL 'MUSIC OF THE STARS' (LONDON, NOTTING HILL)
10/10/2019 - BERLIN SOLO RECITAL ( PIANO SALON CHRISTOPHORI)
26/10/19 - BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL (LONDON, ST JAMES PICCADILLY; BEETHOVEN SOCIETY OF EUROPE)
29/10/2019 -02/11/19 PIANO MASTERCLASSES AT THE KINGS COLLEGE SCHOOL LONDON)
NOVEMBER, 2019 (DATES TBC) - SOLO RECITAL AND MASTERCLASSES (BUENOS AIRES)
17/03/2020 - SOLO RECITAL AT ST MARY PERIVALE (LONDON)
Watch the newest videos from Konstantin's Paris recital for "Les Amis de Marie Laure": Rachmaninov Sonata no.2 op.36 in b-flat minor (March, 2016)
Sibelius 6 pieces op.76, Valse -Triste op.44 (Paris, 2016)
Rachmaninov Concerto no.3 with Mikhail Pletnev and Odessa Philharmonic