Daria van den Bercken explores the significance of nature

Van den Berken

let Rachmaninov's Lilacs bloom and the piano shine like a diamond in Debussy's Reflets dans l'eau . Liszt wrote in the margin of his score of the pensive Vallée d'Obermann : 'What do I expect from nature?' This 19th century question is at odds with the late Frederic Rzewski's blistering and propulsive protest piece Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues , which portrays South Carolina industry in the 1930s. Written in 1979, this work is currently more topical than ever.

The Dutch-Russian pianist Daria van den Bercken is praised for her fresh way of bringing piano music to life. She studied at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Mila Baslawskaja and Naum Grubert. In 2006 and 2008 she won the Dutch Classical Talent Award and in 2012 the prestigious Amsterdam Art Prize.

Daria plays the entire spectrum of the piano repertoire, as a soloist in international concert halls, at major festivals and in chamber music. Her passion is to reach and seduce as many people as possible, both classical music lovers and new audiences. In 2016 she founded the Keys to Music Foundation with which she reaches a new audience for classical music through artistic and educational projects. The latest project is the Piano Biennale, an international piano and music festival in the Netherlands that, despite the corona epidemic, had its first edition in 2021. It is the first piano festival worldwide in which different art forms collaborate in unique productions with the piano at its core.

Program

Joseph Haydn - Sonata in G minor Hob XVI:44

François Couperin - Les lis Naissants - Les Roseaux

Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata no. 17 in d minor op. 31 no. 2 'Der Sturm'

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Lilacs op. 21 no.5

Claude Debussy - Images I: Reflets dans l'eau, Préludes II: Feuilles Mortes

Franz Liszt - Années de Pèlerinage II: Eglogue, Années de Pèlerinage I: Vallée d'Obermann

Frederic Rzewski - Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

About the Bosendorfer Series

The Bösendorfer Series is a series of intimate piano recitals in De Waalse Kerk, in which nine top pianists shine behind the beautiful Bösendorfer Imperial Grand grand piano. More information about season '23-'24 of the Bösendorfer Series can be found on our website towards the end of season '22-'23.