Katrine Gislinge

Katrine Gislinge (born 1969) is a Danish pianist.(image) [http://www.tokafi.com/static/2007/12/15-questions-katrine-gislinge-Katrine_Gislinge_Piano.jpg] 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, she studied with, among others, Seymour Lipkin in New York, Boris Berman at Yale, and Peter Feuchtwanger in London.

Katrine Gislinge began taking piano lessons at the age of six. After taking her diploma in 1990 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, she studied with among others Seymour Lipkin in New York, at Yale with Boris Berman and Claude Frank, and with Peter Feuchtwanger in London. Today she is one of Scandinavias most famous pianists.Katrine Gislinge's concerts have evoked a broad spectrum of superlatives. She is well known for her musical imagination and profound empathy with the classical repertoire:"Katrine Gislinge has added cubits to her status as a pianist in recent years. She has emerged from the role of child prodigy and is now a mature artist with a rich array of resources." . . . "Gislinge is a winner." So wrote the music reviewer Jens Brincker in Berlingske Tidende on 18th January 1998.In recent years, Gislinge has embarked upon endeavours including chamber music collaborations with international musicians such as violinist Gidon Kremer, the German Petersen String Quartet, the cellist Jian Wang, cellist Marc Coppey, the flautist Emmanuel Pahud, 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, 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 know to be a specialist of the classic repertoire, including all concertos by Mozart and Beethoven, - but she is also a fine romantic pianist playing the concerts by Schumann, Chopin and Tjajkovskij.

Reviews

From concert with Gustavo Dudamel

Schumann’s Piano Concerto introduced us to the Danish pianist Katrine Gislinge, who has an international career but has only appeared in Sweden on tour with a Danish symphony orchestra. She is in her mid-thirties and a mature artist who offered a very poetic reading of the concerto, reminding me of another poet of the piano, Hungarian Lili Kraus, whose recording of this concerto was my introduction to this music. Conductor and soloist seemed to be in agreement, since Dudamel managed to make the rather thick orchestration appear uncommonly translucent. It might have sounded something like this on period instruments in the mid-19th century. Springy rhythms in the outer movements kept the music alive, and if “poetic” gives the impression of a small-scale performance, that was definitely not the case. Even if this is not exactly a virtuoso concerto there are heavy technical demands on the soloist, especially in the last movement, and Katrine Gislinge met them with accuracy. The enthusiastic response from the audience rendered an encore, a nocturne by Chopin, which further emphasised her poetic credentials.

What artists! The pianist Katrine Gislinge and the violinist Augustin Dumay fill this glowing quartet with expressive, rapier-sharp playing" . . . . "The feeling of being in the kingdom of exuberance is real - believe in it".Peter Johannes Erichsen, Weekendavisen 2.11.01"Katrine in Wonderland" . . . . "The full hall boiled with enthusiasm over this wonderful evening and as a reward was given the Sicilienne movement once again. But even more delicately".(from a concert with Augustin Dumay, Gérard Caussé and others)Knud Ketting, Jyllandsposten 28.10.01"Strongest was the Shostakovich, where one of the absolute high points was the concluding slow part of the first movement. He, whispering almost without vibrato and pitch. She, listening breathlessly. Even more intensely than on the recording by Mstislav Rostropovitch with the composer himself at the piano. (from a concert with the cellist Jian Wang)

"Katrine Gislinge proved herself lovely in person, rich in searching musicianship, accomplished in technique and, most important of all, a thoughtful artist with definite ideas about the music she undertakes,Beginning with Schubert's Second Opus 90 Impromptu, the artist showed an abiding concern for musical architecture. Although her tone doesn't lack warmth, it is her striking clarity that gives such definition to her playing. She takes her time to settle her fingers on the keys, preparing her audience to enter into the process.2 Chopin works enforced the impression of thoughtful artistry and technical authority. Her precision told beautifully in Debussy's Images 1, where clean fingering made the composer's washes of sound all the more affecting. Schumann's "Kreisleriana" was marvelously detailed, yet alert to every quixotic contrast. Gislinge clearly is someone quite special."

Eric Eriksson, Doors County Advocate, august 28, 2003

Pianist, JSO capture Mozart's subtletiesBy Terry PowFor the Jackson Citizen PatriotMonday, February 9, 2004 - page A-7 Denmark's celebrated piano virtuoso Katrine Gislinge clearly believes in establishing a close rapport with the orchestra.At moments she appeared to be conducting along with maestro Stephen Osmond during Saturday night's Jackson Symphony Orchestra concert. Or maybe the expressive gestures were her way of channeling into the astral presence of Mozart, whose "Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major" lay beneath her agile fingers.Either way, it turned out to be as refined a performance of a masterpiece as one might hope to hear on a cold winter's night.Mozart wrote this work in a year of astonishing productivity that included two other piano concertos and "The Marriage of Figaro." The A major concerto side steps the overt brilliance of the other pieces and invites the listener into a more private world, at once tender and confiding.Gislinge embraced the tenderness without becoming sugary. She coaxed the work's shy mysteries to the surface with a gem-like technique and limpid tone.

From concert in Sweden"Annars präglades söndagens konsert i hög grad av den unga danska pianisten Katrine Gislinge, en fullgod ersättare för Ekestads ordinarie klaverspelare, Bengt Forsberg, som hade förhinder i år. I Debussys "Speglingar i vattnet" och Chopins "Fantasi-Impromtu" i ciss-moll visade hon både lyrisk känsla och temperament. Hon ackompanjerade Andreas Brantelid i Debussys cellosonat, i vilken denne demonstrerade sitt fina handlag med fransk musik. Slutligen medverkade Katrine Gislinge i Brahms välkända "Pianokonsert op. 25" i g-moll med vilken man satte pricken över i:et för den här gången.

Lyhördheten mellan pianist och medlemmarna i Copenhagen Classic var total och blixtsnabb och Katrine Gislinge gav fullt utlopp för sitt starka temperament. Publiken jublade och de stående ovationerna blev ihållande."

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.

Listen to some of Katrine Gislinges recordings here [http://music.download.com/katrinegislinge/3600-8277_32-100285727.html]

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:

HaydnConcerto in D major

MozartAll concertos

BeethovenNo. 1 in C majorNo. 2 in B flat majorNo. 4 in G majorNo. 5 in Eb majorTriple concerto in C major

KuhlauConcerto in C major

WeberKonzertstück in F minor

SchumannConcerto in A minor

GriegConcerto in A minor

ChopinConcerto no. 2 in F minor

BartókConcerto no. 3

ShostakovichConcerto for piano, trumpet and strings

TschaikowskiConcerto no. 1

BrittenConcerto for piano and strings

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

Repertoire piano solo:

J. C. BachSonatas

J. S. BachToccata in C minorPreludes/fugesConcerto in Italian style

HaydnAll Sonatas

MozartAll sonatas

BeethovenBagatelles Op. 33Sonata 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”

SchubertSonata in A minorSonata nr. 23 in B flat major D9604 Impromptus Op. 90 D899

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

MendelssohnLieder ohne Worte

ChopinFantaisie in F minor Op. 49Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66Ballade in G minorBallade in A flat majorBallade in F majorScherzo in B minorScherzo in B flat minorPolonaisesMazurkasValsesNocturnesEtudes

BrahmsKlavierstücke Op. 1192 Rhapsodies Op. 79

MussorgskyPictures at an Exhibition

GriegNorwegian Dances Op. 72Ballade in G minor Op. 24

DebussyImages Book IL’Ile joyeuse

JanacêkSonate I.X.1905“In the mist”

Manuel de FallaFantasía Baética

BartókDanses populaires roumaines

Erkki MelartinDer traurige Garten

David Monrad JohansenNordlandsbilleder

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

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)Three Piano Pieces Op. 59Five Piano Pieces Op. 3Chaconne

Tage Nielsen (b. 1929)Two Nocturnes

Per Nørgaard (b. 1932)“Turn”

Erik Nordby (b. 1936)'Passacaglia'

A Nordentoft (b. 1956)'Behind'

P.E. Lange-MüllerDæmpede melodier

Thomas BlachmanStar Music Opus 1 [http://gaffa.dk/anmeldelser/view.php/mreview_id=26505]

Christian SkeelKlavermusik

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