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Yuri Paterson-Olenich was born in Brighton where, at the age of four, he started piano lessons with Christine Pembridge, a pupil of Adelina de Lara and Harold Craxton. In 1991 he was awarded an entrance exhibition to the Royal Academy of music where he studied with the late Alexander Kelly. He performed extensively throughout the U.K. and took part in the London Bach Festival of 1994. He also received harpsichord lessons from Terence Charlston.

As a post-graduate Yuri studied with Professor Vladimir Tropp at the Russian Gnesins' Academy of Music in Moscow, supported by the Ian Fleming Charitable Trust and the Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarship Trust. He has also received lessons from Tatiana Zelikman in Moscow, Alexander Satz in London and Alicia de Larrocha in Barcelona.

Yuri took advantage of the many varied opportunities to perform in the former USSR : of particular interest was a series of performances of the ten sonatas of Scriabin in different venues including the composer's Moscow apartment, now a museum. Yuri was very well received during his stay in Russia, notably for his performances of works by Scriabin, Rakhmaninov and of the sonata by Frank Bridge, which he performed in a series of concerts sponsored by the Frank Bridge Trust. Concert tours have taken him to Russia, Kazakhstan, Italy, Armenia, France, Germany, Denmark and the Canary Islands.

More recent concert activities include Yuri's participation in the international festival Piano à Auxerre, his inclusion in a festival of British music held in Copenhagen, a tour of Kazakhstan with Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, appearances in Criccieth and Lower Machen festivals and a recital as the concluding event of the Lewes Live Literature festival in the U.K.

Yuri has recorded Collage, a concerto for saxophone, piano and orchestra by Paul Carr with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra for the Claudio label and his CD, SCRIABIN : LATE PIANO WORKS was released to critical acclaim. Following this success, Yuri was invited to record a double CD of Rachmaninov's works, which was released earlier this year.

Yuri is a pianist who likes to maintain as wide a repertoire as possible, encompassing the mainstream repertory, more unusual works and music by living composers. Being an admirer of the visual arts, Yuri has a particular interest in repertoire inspired by visual elements.

Forthcoming concerts  -  last updated 25.01.2009

Friday 19th May 2006 at 7.30pm
The Throne Room
Auckland Castle
Bishop Auckland
Co Durham
DL14 7NR
Tel (01388) 601627
www.communigate.co.uk/ne/bams

Weiss: Tombeau
Mozart: Sonata K282
Bridge: The Hour Glass Suite
Rachmaninov: Selected Preludes and Etudes-Tableaux
Stephanie Cant: Sonatine
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Wednesday 31st May 2006 12.30pm
Wathen Hall, Barnes - Entry by invitation

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Thursday 15th June 2006 Luncheon Concert Series
Village Hall,
Knowle Green, between Longridge and Clitheroe
Preston
Enquiries and tickets 01254 826948

Stephanie Cant: Sonatine
Rachmaninov Sonata No.1 in D minor Op.28

Friday 16th June 2006 12.30pm
St George's Church,
Lune Street,
Preston
Enquiries and tickets 01254 826948

Stephanie Cant: Sonatine
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Saturday 1st July 2006 7.30pm
Elfrida Oldfield Memorial Recital in aid of Macmillan Nurses.
St Mark's Church, Eastern Road, Brighton BN2 5JF
Programme to be announced.

August 22nd  2006
Cardiff Millennium Centre - Lunchtime recital (With Evgenia Startseva)
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition 
www.wmc.org.uk/index.cfm?alias=getting

August 26th  2006
Steyning Music society
Rachmaninov - Sonata no.1

14th June 2007

Knowle Green Preston

Luncheon Concert.

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1 (Transcription for piano 4 hands with Evgenia Startseva)

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.

15th June 2007

St George’s, Preston

Rachmaninov: Lilacs

Schubert: Fantasie in F min for piano 4 hands Op.103 (with Evgenia Startseva, who will also play Prokofiev’s Vision Fugitives)

20th June 2007

Criccieth Festival (Wales)

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.

*Debussy: Epigraphes Antiques

*Schubert: Fantasie in F min for piano 4 hands Op.103

*Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1 (Transcription for piano 4 hands)

* with Evgenia Startseva

June 30th

Lower Machen Festival: lunch-time recital (with Evgenia Startseva) solo and 4 hands

Shostakovich, Schubert, Mussorgsky

1st August 2007

Welsh Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay

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Schubert: Fantasie in F min for piano 4 hands Op.103 (with Evgenia Startseva, who will also play Prokofiev’s Vision Fugitives Op.22 and Shostakovich’s Preludes Op.34)

3rd August 2007

Welsh Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay

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Grieg:Excerpts from Peer Gynt Suites No.1 & 2 (Transcription for piano 4 hands with Evgenia Startseva)

Rachmaninov: 9 Etudes-Tableaux Op.39

20th November 2007

Bures Music Circle Suffolk

Programme t.b.a.

1st December 2007

Guildford United Reform Church

Programme t.b.a

21st February 2008

St Olave's, Hart Street (City of London). 1.05pm

Bach: Prelude & Fugue: F major Book II.BWV880

Bach: Prelude & Fugue: F minor.Book II. BWV 881

Haydn : Sonata in A-flat Hob XV1/46

Stephanie Cant: Sonatine

Granados: The Maiden and the Nightingale

Albeniz: Triana

19th April 2008

Darlington Piano Society

Bach: Prelude & Fugue: F major Book II.BWV880

Bach: Prelude & Fugue: F minor.Book II. BWV 881

Haydn : Sonata in A-flat Hob XV1/46

Stephanie Cant: Sonatine

Granados: The Maiden and the Nightingale

Albeniz: Triana

Rachmaninov: Sonata No.1 in D minor Op.28

Sunday 18th May 2008 at 7pm

St George's Church, Kemptown, Brighton

with: Marcel Scerri – tenor, Charlotte Shorthouse - mezzo soprano

"Passionate Italian Opera, sensual French Melodie and fiery Spanish Canciones with sumptuous piano solos.

An engaging programme of heartfelt warmth for a balmy May evening"

http://www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk/

Brighton Dome Ticket office 01273 709709

June 28^th  2008

Lower Machen Festival.

Rachmaninov: Sonata No.1 in D minor Op.28

Piano Duet with Evgenia Startseva : Lynne Plowman The Memaids’ Lagoon

http://www.lowermachenfestival.co.uk/

Tuesday 18th November

Bures Music Circle in Suffolk

Joint solo and duo appearance with Evgenia Startseva

Programme to include Schumann: Carnaval Op.9

2009

Latest CD Launch Concert on Sat 3rd Jan 2009 at 7.30pm

Rachmaninov: Sonata No.1 Op.28 / Etudes-Tableaux Op.39   

This will take place at St Luke's Church, corner of Queens Park Road and Queen's Park Terrace, Brighton BN2 9YA

A recital will take place of a selection of works from each cd, plus Schubert's F minor Fantasy for 4 hands.

Tickets £6 (£5 concessions) available on the door. (Ticket price redeemable on purchase of a CD)

Free glass of wine too!  

CD's

RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No.1 Op. 28 Etudes-Tableaux Op.39 Following the success of his debut Scriabin CD Yuri returns to Russian music and the early 20th Century with this coupling of two of Rachmaninov’s most challenging works. From Yuri’s liner notes: “In the Etudes-Tableaux Op. 39, among the last pieces Rachmaninov wrote before he left Russia for good in 1917, one can sense the turbulent new era for his country reflected in the innovative stretching of the instrument’s limits, firmly placing the composer in the twentieth century.”

SCRIABIN Late Piano Works Sonatas 7, 9 & 10 Poémes • Etudes • Preludes Please click on images

REVIEWS

"...his recital, with its opposing elements of dark and light...is given with rare sensitivity and commitment...Time and again he allows one to savour every aspect of Scriabin's neurotic sensibility...playing with spaciousness and lucidity, never whirled into obscure agitation by the composer's idiosyncratic directions...Vers la Flamme is menacingly controlled before the final conflagration, the stream of chromatic ninths in the first of Op 65 Etudes is always musically directed rather than made an excuse for obvious flamboyant virtuosity...An exceptional, very personal issue." Bryce Morrison, Gramophone

"...a powerfully expressive recital of Scriabin's most searching works...tackles them all with astonishing assurance: a most auspicious debut." **** Andrew Clarke, Independent

"...sincere commitment to the composer's musical ideals...interpretative understanding of [the composer's] music...carefully considered..." Charles Hopkins, International Record Review

"...makes light of Scriabin's fiendishly difficult scores...superb in the delicate sonorities of the Poems." David Denton, Yorkshire Post

"...real understanding of Scriabin's visionary music...poetic dreaminess...textures are always clear" **** Adrian Jack, BBC Music Magazine

"When I heard Yuri Paterson-Olenich play in Moscow last summer, I was immediately impressed by his ability to conjure from the piano the fantastical, the aerial, as well as the apocalyptic and some would say demonic aspects of Scriabin's music. The intensity with which Paterson-Olenich conveys Scriabin's vision is, unrivalled in recent recordings. Looming large throughout is the spirit of Sofronitsky.Several performances really stand out; I was impressed by the austerity and poise of the Prelude Op67 No.1, the brilliance and range of colour employed in the Op.65 Studies and Vers la flame, the dark intensity of the Ninth Sonata. This disc is a testament to Paterson-Olenich's affinity with Scriabin's late music." Jonathan Powell, International Piano Quarterly

"The young pianist Yuri Paterson-Olenich gave a recital of unusual interest... Beethoven's E major Sonata Op 109, played here with much poetry and feeling... Scriabin...fluent, expansive and contrasting..." Philip Scowcroft, Doncaster Free Press

"Paterson-Olenich's playing, consistently enthralling and energetic, remained on high voltage for Mussorgsy's daunting Pictures at an Exhibition...grading textures almost as if de-orchestrating another version...a culmination of artistic power." Howard Thomas, Croydon Advertiser

"Yuri Paterson-Olenich produced a performance [of the Goyescas] which certainly drew every ounce of colour out of a piano…It was a tribute to his musical prowess that he was able to enthral his listeners from start to finish, creating as much tonal and dynamic contrast as humanly possible, allied to a sensitive touch and a wide emotional range which succeeded in effectively characterising the individual movements. The playing was also technically assured in the often highly virtuosic writing…" Philip R Buttall, Plymouth Evening Herald

“Pianist Yuri Paterson-Olenich turned to the virtuous keyboard reverberation of Rachmaninov’s cycle of Etudes-Tableaux from Op.39, swaying between both detached austerity and ecstatic intimacy, demanding the execution of a lofty piano technique. With pliant hands, a burnished sound and power, but also with considerable transparency, Paterson-Olenich delivered that, which Rakhmaninov’s score called for. A superior and singular achievement.”   Saarbrücker Zeitung 15.01.2005

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