Evgeny Konnov started to study piano at the age of four
Evgeny Konnov started to study piano at the age of four.
Award-winning pianist in Valldemossa
Pianist Evgeny Konnov, Russian but born in Uzbekistan, has won more thirty international competitions - as many as his age, 31 - he having started to study piano at the age of four.
The tenth anniversary of Valldemossa’s Moors and Christians
The Valldemossa re-enactment of a sixteenth century clash with Ottoman pirates is less well known than the battles of Pollensa and Soller; there is also Sant Elm, but this isn’t in the same league.
Mallorca’s oldest music festival
The Chopin Festival in Valldemossa is one of Mallorca’s most important musical events and is certainly the oldest.
A Chopin period piano winner at the Charterhouse
Naruhiko Kawaguchi, now aged 34, holds the distinction of having been the first winner of the inaugural International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments that was held in Warsaw in 2018.
Pianino Festival 2023
Pianist Rafael Kyrychenko.
From the Azores to Valldemossa’s Charterhouse
There are few more charming locations for concerts than Valldemossa’s Charterhouse and few more historical settings than the Chopin and Sand Cell.
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