21st Gdańsk Pianist Autumn — Xin Wang, Florian Koltun

Xin Wang — pianFlorian Kultun — piano

Hosted by Dominika Glapiak

The program includes works by W.A. Mozart, C. Debussy, F. Schubert, R. Rossini (details to come soon).

Xin WangOne of Inner Mongolia's leading female pianists in China. She gained notoriety by winning a special prize at the national piano competition at the age of seven, and today performs piano concerts and recitals in concert halls throughout China. She studied with Jolio Largachy and Gabriel Rosenberg in Cologne and Nuremberg. During her studies, she received a DAAD scholarship. She regularly performs at various well-known concert venues in Asia and Europe.As a soloist, Xin Wang has performed with many well-known orchestras, under the baton of famous conductors such as: Kazem Abdullah, James Peng Liu, Juri Gilbo, Eduardo Strausser and Fuad Ibrahimov. She is also a regular guest at major international festivals, such as the Skriabin Piano Festival in Grosseto (Italy), Friday Nights with Yury Revich in Vienna (Austria) and the Festival de musique Classique a Pompignan in Toulouse (France) .Xin Wang is the founder and artistic director of the Geilenkirchen International Piano Festival in Germany and president of the international jury Euregio Piano Award. Since 2012, he has been teaching as a visiting professor at various music universities in China. She has also taught several master classes in China and Germany, with prestigious lecturers from renowned European music universities.

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Florian KoltunGerman pianist and music manager, studied at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne. Since 2013 he has been collaborating with Tomislav Baynov at the Trossingen University of Music. He took master classes with prestigious teachers such as B.L. Gelber and G. Rosenberg. His active concert activity began when he was 14 years old. Already then he attracted attention, winning several first prizes at the German Jugend Musiziert competition and at the Bach National Music Competition in Köthen. He has won first prize at several international piano competitions, such as the Piano Competition in Caraglio (Italy), the International Piano Competition for Young Pianists in Luxembourg, the Henri Herman Concours in Maastricht (The Netherlands) and the Notes in harmony International Piano Competition in Bettona (Italy) .Florian Koltun is the artistic director of various concert cycles and music festivals in Germany (Heinsberg, Aachen, Windeck, Geilenkirchen, Boltenhagen and Monschau). Since 2012, he has been conducting master classes at various music universities in China and Europe. From 2015 to 2017 he taught piano at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne.

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The project is co-financed by the City of Gdańsk.