FESTIVAL BACH MONTRÉAL presents 

Bach, Mozart & Liszt

Eva Gevorgyan is the winner of more than forty international competitions. In 2019, at just 15 years of age, she gave a solo recital at the Royal Albert Hall in London. That same year, she won the Chopin Competition for Young Pianists. Critics raved about her “emotional eloquence and impeccable technique,” combined with all the “important characteristics of a mature master.”

Eva Gevorgyan, is a laureate in more than forty piano competitions, including top prizes at the 2018 Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists and the 2019 Van Cliburn Young Artist Competition. More recently she has won the Prix du Bern in Switzerland in 2023, Discovery Award at the 2019 International Classical Music Awards, the Great Prize at the Russia National Orchestra Competition in 2021, in addition to being finalist and winner of the Special Prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland.

She has performed as soloist with the Dallas Symphony, Lucerne Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Mariinsky Orchestra, Russia National Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov Academic State Symphony, Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Neue Philharmonie Hamburg Orchestra , Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, Liechtenstein Philharmonic, Armenia National Philharmonic Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tatarstan Symphony Orchestra. She has also appeared in recital in such Festivals as Verbier, White Nights Festival, and in 2023 debuted at La Roque d’Antheron, obtaining rave reviews.

In 23/24 Eva will open the season with a Japan tour, playing in Nagoya, Tokyo, Shizuoka, Mishima, and Urasayu.

Highlights include the performance of all the Piano Concertos by Rachmaninoff at the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra and Rahmaninoff Piano Concertos No. 2 & 4 at the Festival Internacional Cervantino.

Orchestra debuts include appearances with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica de Bologna, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Brandenburgesches Orchestra, Ontario Philharmonic, Academy of Russian Music Orchestra, Ural Philharmonic, and the return to Leipzig Gewandhaus and Laeiszhalle.

In recital she will appear in Bern, Biel, Potsdam, Brescia, Minsk, Irkutsk, Moscow, Voronezh, as well as at the Palermo Festival, Chopin Festival (São Paulo) and Bach Montreal Festival.

Program
J.S. BACH
Four Duets, BWV 802-805
No. 1 in E minor
No. 2 in F major
No. 3 in G major
No. 4 in A minor
Reminiscences from Don Juan, S. 418
MOZART
Fantaisie No. 4, in C Minor, K. 475
Sonate No. 14, in C Minor, K. 457
LISZT
Reminiscences from Don Juan, S. 418

Bourgie Hall
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 7:30pm

To purchase your tickets visit: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall/

The Festival Bach Montréal is North America’s premiere destination for the timeless musical genius of Johann Sebastian Bach and the cultural legacy that he has inspired. Through a series of concerts and educational programs, the Festival Bach Montréal showcases Canada’s elite musicians to the world and brings world-class performers to Quebec. Each year, in November and December, the Festival Bach Montréal presents around 30 events (including concerts, open rehearsals and discussions, etc.) over a three-week period annually bringing together more than 20,000 local and international festival-goers. www.festivalbachmontreal.com