Today's issue of the programme "Observer" on "Culture" channel was devoted to the outstanding pianist and teacher Sergey Dorensky. The master's students, famous pianists Denis Matsuev and Nikolay Lugansky took part in the programme. You can watch the video here. ...

The International music festival "Crescendo", art-director of which is Denis Matsuev, ended with a gala concert in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatoire. In the concert took part Tchaikovsky symphony orchestra headed by Dmitri Liss and soloists: Denis Matsuev, Julian Rachlin, Maxim Rysanov, Sayaka Shoji, Vladislav Lavrik, Narek Akhnazaryan, Olga Peretyatko, Sophia Kiprskaya. The video is available here. ...

December 6, at 17 35, “Culture” TV channel will broadcast the concert “Sergey Dorensky and his students” from the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatoire, soloist Denis Matsuev. The programme of the concert includes Schubert, Sonata in A minor and Beethoven, Sonata no.23 “Appassionata”. December 8, at 17 35, “Culture” TV channel will broadcast the concert “Tribute to Sergey Dorensky”, recorded at the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatoire on December 5. ...

Today at 17 20 on “Culture” TV channel there will be a broadcast of the final gala concert of the music festival “Crescendo” (artistic director – Denis Matsuev) ...

The annual music festival “Crescendo” finished with a gala concert in Moscow in the Great Hall of the Conservatoire. The festival represents a unique annual forum for the best young Russian musicians, performing here means acknowledgement of talent and skills for the young generation of the Russian perfprming school. Denis Matsuev, art-director of “Crescendo”, says: “More than 100 musicians took part in the festival during 7 years… If you look at philharmonic posters throughout the country, you will see that 80% of the names on them come from “Crescendo”. Sharing his thought about the future, Denis expressed the intention to turn “Crescendo” into a music academy with its orchestra, workshops with invited professors and a special concert hall. You can watch the broadcast of “Russia 24” channel from the “Crescendo-2011” gala concert here. ...

At the VI music festival "Vladimir Spivakov invites" Denis Matsuev and the National Philharmonic of Russia headed by Vladimir Spivakov perform E.Grieg, 2 elegiac melodies, "Heart Wounds" and "Last spring", and Piano concerto in A minor. The concert was recorded in Svetlanov hall of Moscow International Performing Arts Center, year 2011. The video is available here. ...

November, 28, at 17 30 there will be a concert broadcast on “Culture” TV channel:  Denis Matsuev and the National Philharmonic of Russia headed by Vladimir Spivakov will perform Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies for Strings, “Heart Wounds” and “Last Spring”, and also Piano concerto in A minor. The concert was recorded in Svetlanov hall of Moscow International Performing Arts Centre in 2011. ...

December 5, 2011, in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire there was a concert “Tribute to Sergey Dorensky”. Sergey Dorensky is an outstanding pianist and teacher who brought up a record-breaking number of famous musicians. Denis Matsuev performed in honour of his teacher Shostakovich, Piano concerto no.1 (parts 2,3 and 4), and then the master’s students played Varenberg in 14 hands. ...

Denis Matsuev’s Siberian tour is over. December, 8 the pianist gave a concert in Tyumen, December, 10 – in Omsk, December, 12 – in Nobosibirsk and December, 13 – in Krasnoyarsk. In these cities he chose to play Schubert, Grieg, Beethoven, Stravinsky and Liszt. “I love these compositions, I’ve played them many times. It is the romantic repertoire, my favourite repertoire. I feel comfortable with it, because I am in a romantic age now,” – says Denis. ...

December, 15 Denis Matsuev gives a press conference in the Moscow Philharmonic concerning the release of his hew album “Matsuev. Liszt”. “Matsuev. Liszt”, the pianist’s sixth album, was recorded in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire in August 2011, which was dated to the famous Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt’s 200th anniversary. The album is released on the label “RCA/Red Seal” (Sony Music) on 2 CDs that include some of the most interesting compositions by Liszt: Piano concerto no.1 and no. ...