| Sunday 21 June 2026 | 15:30 |
Join us on an inspiring journey across Europe and through the central repertoire of the piano concerto. On 21st June 2026 we travel from city to city where leading international pianists play some of the most beautiful piano concertos accompanied by renowned orchestras led by acclaimed conductors.
The piano concerto evening kicks off at the Wiener Konzerthaus, where Yulianna Avdeeva performs Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor together with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Petr Popelka. The work marks a key moment between classical form and romantic expressivity.
Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor with Nobuyuki Tsujii and the Orchestre de Paris under Klaus Mäkelä comes next from the Philharmonie de Paris, combining Nordic tonal colours with virtuosic brilliance.
In Poznań, Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor is on the programme, played by Walim Beisembayev with the Filharmonia Poznańska under Łukasz Borowicz.
Up next the Konserthuset Stockholm presents Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor with Eric Lu and the Kungliga Filharmonikerna under Ryan Bancroft - a transitional work for the famous composer.
Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in D major for the Left Hand with Anna Vinnitskaya and the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg under Aziz Shokhakimov is heard next from Strasbourg, before the open-air concert from Valencia concludes the first half: Mao Fujita plays Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major with the Orquesta de Valencia under Alexander Liebreich.
In the second half of the concert, europiano takes the audience to even more striking European locations - from historic open-air venues to concert halls steeped in tradition.
In Athens, Beethoven's Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major, “Emperor”, with Lukas Sternath and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Constantinos Carydis is to be performed on Pnyx Hill with a view of the Acropolis.
In Hamburg's Laeiszhalle, superstar pianist Martha Argerich performs Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra under Sylvain Cambreling.
Another open-air concert follows from Lisbon at the Torre de Belém with Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor, performed by Bruce Liu with the Orquestra Gulbenkian conducted by Hannu Lintu.
At the Wiesbaden Kurhaus in Germany, Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor will be performed by Hayato Sumino with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alain Altinoglu.
The crowning finale is Lyatoshynsky's Slavic Concerto for Piano, performed by Maksym Shadko with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine and Kyiv Camerata, conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson.
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