Katrine Gislinge is a Danish

Denmark

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 pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

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She began taking piano lessons at the age of six. After taking her diploma in 1990 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, she studied with, among others, Seymour Lipkin in New York

New York

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, Boris Berman

Boris Berman

Boris Berman is a Russian pianist and pedagogue .He was a student of Lev Oborin at the Moscow Conservatory. He made his debut in Moscow in 1965. He joined an early music ensemble, at the time the only one in Russia, as a harpsichordist. At the same time he worked with contemporary composers such...

 at Yale, and Peter Feuchtwanger in London

London

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In recent years, Gislinge has embarked upon endeavours including chamber music collaborations with international musicians such as violinist Gidon Kremer

Gidon Kremer

Gidon Kremer is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.-Biography:Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish and Latvian-Swedish origins. He began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather,...

, the German Petersen String Quartet, the cellist Jian Wang, cellist Marc Coppey, the flautist Emmanuel Pahud

Emmanuel Pahud

Emmanuel Pahud is a Swiss flute player.He was born in Geneva, Switzerland. His father is of French and Swiss background and his mother is French. The Berlin-based flutist is most known for his baroque and classical flute repertory....

, the violinist Augustin Dumay and the violist Gérard Caussé, and solo concerts at international festivals, such as the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico, 'Le Festival de Radio France et Montpellier' and Lockenhaus, soloist performances conducted by among others Eri Klas, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Michael Schønwandt, Okko Kamu, Heinrich Schiff, Kurt Sanderling

Kurt Sanderling

Kurt Sanderling, CBE was a German conductor.-Biography:Kurt Sanderling was born in Arys, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire to Jewish parents. After early work at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he left for the Soviet Union in 1936, where he worked with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra...

, Adam Fischer, Sylvain Cambreling and Gustavo Dudamel.

In 1999 Katrine Gislinge recorded the cd "piano works" on Deutsche Grammophon, being the first Danish pianist to record on this label. Katrine Gislinge is known for work in the classic repertoire, including all concertos by Mozart and Beethoven, but she is also a romantic pianist, playing the concerts by Schumann, Chopin and Tjajkovskij.

Katrine Gislinge has been a jury member at international piano competitions, - in 2006 and 2008 at the Tivoli International Piano Competition.

She has appeared on several TV shows and movies, e.g., the Danish TV-program Smagsdommerne.

Awards and recognitions

• Gold medal, Berlingske Tidende Music Competition,
• The Gade Prize,
• The Hafnia Prize (w. Trio Amando),
• The Simon Spies Honorary Award,
• Noilly Prat Prize,
• van Hauen's Music Award,
• Walther Schröders Piano Prize,
• Music Rewievers Society Award,
• Merete & Helge Finsen Honorary Award

Repertoire

Haydn
Concerto in D major

Mozart
All concertos

Beethoven
No. 1 in C major
No. 2 in B flat major
No. 4 in G major
No. 5 in Eb major
Triple concerto in C major

Kuhlau
Concerto in C major

Weber
Konzertstück in F minor

Schumann
Concerto in A minor

Grieg
Concerto in A minor

Chopin
Concertos

Bartók
Concerto no. 3

Shostakovich
Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings

Tschaikowski
Concerto no. 1

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Britten
Concerto for piano and strings

Manuel de Falla
Concerto for piano (cembalo), fl., ob., cl., vn. and vc.

Repertoire piano solo:

J. C. Bach
Sonatas

J. S. Bach
Toccata in C minor
Preludes/fuges
Concerto in Italian style

Haydn
All Sonatas

Mozart
All sonatas

Beethoven
Bagatelles Op. 33
Sonata no. 8 in C minor “Pathétique”
Sonata no. 14 Op. 27 no. 2 in C sharp minor “Moonlight”
Sonata no. 15 Op. 28 in D major “Pastorale”
Sonata no. 23 Op. 57 in F minor op. 57 “Appassionata”

Schubert
Sonata in A minor
Sonata nr. 23 in B flat major D960
4 Impromptus Op. 90 D899

Schumann
Kinderszenen Op. 15
Arabesque Op. 18
Kreisleriana Op. 16
Sonate no. 2 in G minor Op. 22
Carnaval Op. 9

Mendelssohn
Lieder ohne Worte

Chopin
Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49
Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66
Ballade in G minor
Ballade in A flat major
Ballade in F major
Scherzo in B minor
Scherzo in B flat minor
Polonaises
Mazurkas
Valses
Nocturnes
Etudes

Brahms
Klavierstücke Op. 119
2 Rhapsodies Op. 79

Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition

Grieg
Norwegian Dances Op. 72
Ballade in G minor Op. 24

Debussy
Images Book I
L’Ile joyeuse

Janacêk
Sonate I.X.1905
“In the mist”

Manuel de Falla
Fantasía Baética

Bartók
Danses populaires roumaines

Erkki Melartin
Der traurige Garten

David Monrad Johansen
Nordlandsbilleder

Danish composers:
N. W. Gade (1817–1890)
Aquarelles

Carl Nielsen

Carl Nielsen

Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...

 (1865–1931)
Three Piano Pieces Op. 59
Five Piano Pieces Op. 3
Chaconne

Chaconne (Nielsen)

Carl Nielsen's Chaconne, Op. 32, is among the composer's most frequently played compositions for piano.-Background:In a letter to his daughter Irmelin dated 19 December 1916, Nielsen, who was spending Christmas alone because of difficulties in his marriage with Anne Marie, wrote that he was...

Tage Nielsen (b. 1929)
Two Nocturnes

Per Nørgaard (b. 1932)
“Turn”

Erik Nordby (b. 1936)
'Passacaglia'

A Nordentoft (b. 1956)
'Behind'

P.E. Lange-Müller
Dæmpede melodier

Thomas Blachman
Star Music Opus 1 http://gaffa.dk/anmeldelser/view.php/mreview_id=26505

Christian Skeel
Klavermusik

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