Aaron Pilsan

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Aaron Pilsan
Born1985 (age 3637)
Dornbirn, Austria
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  • Classical pianist

Aaron Pilsan (born 1995, in Dornbirn) is an Austrian pianist.

Pilsan started to learn the piano at the age of five. As a teenager he studied under Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, and subsequently became a pupil of Lars Vogt. [1] His inclusion in the Rising Star programme of the European Concert Hall Organisation saw him receive a number of recital engagements while still in his teens. In 2014, at the age of 19, Naïve Records released his debut recording, featuring works by Beethoven and Schubert. [2] Gramophone's reviewer Bryce Morrison praised Pilsan for using "his remarkable agility to a purely musical end" in Schubert's Wandererfantasie. [3] Aaron Pilsan has been supported by the Swiss foundation "Orpheum" since 2015 and he became a scholar of the "Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund" in the same year. In August 2017, he was awarded the "Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk". In early 2018, Deutsche Grammophon released "HOME", a musical tribute to Aaron Pilsan's hometown in Vorarlberg, Austria together with long-time duo partner, cellist and friend Kian Soltani. The Album features the works of Schubert, Schumann and Reza Vali. [4]

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References

  1. "Aaron Pilsan". www.naive.fr. Naïve Records. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  2. "Beethoven/Schubert". www.naive.fr. Naïve Records. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  3. Morrison, Bryce (January 2015). "BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No 16. Eroica Variations SCHUBERT Wanderer Fantasy". Gramophone .
  4. "AARON PILSAN | Piano". AARON PILSAN | Piano (in German). Retrieved 2018-03-18.