Following his seven-concert residency at the Aldeburgh Festival and sixth appearance at the BBC Proms last summer, the 2023–24 season sees Pavel Kolesnikov’s debut with the Danish National Symphony (with Susanna Mälkki), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Netherlands Philharmonic (both with Sir Mark Elder) and embark on a recital tour of North America. He also returns to the Philharmonia Orchestra (Santtu-Matias Rouvali), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Vasily Petrenko), Klavier Festival Ruhr and to Wigmore Hall, where he was Artist-in-Residence during the 2020–21 season.
Kolesnikov is known for his cross-genre collaborations and narrative programs. Recent examples include Celestial Navigation–a sequence of music featuring projections by architect Sophie Hicks and text by Martin Crimp–and his realization of Bach’s Goldberg Variations with dancer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, which has been staged more than 50 times across Europe. Kolesnikov also regularly performs with pianist Samson Tsoy, and the duo’s Carnegie Hall debut this season follows recent dates at Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw and London’s Southbank and Barbican centres–the latter as part of Europe’s first-ever Classical Pride.
Kolesnikov won the Honens International Piano Competition in 2012 and was a BBC New Generation Artist 2014–16. He has since worked with all of the BBC orchestras, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, The Hallé, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica de Barcelona, City of Birmingham Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony and Stavanger Symphony, among others. He regularly gives recitals at Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Park Avenue Armory, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Konzerthaus Berlin, Piano aux Jacobins Festival and De Singel.
Pavel Kolesnikov's discography for Hyperion includes albums of music by Reynaldo Hahn, Louis Couperin and Chopin.