Photo: Christine Rechling

As winner of the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg in 2016 SASKIA GIORGINI appeared in numerous celebrated concerts and live radio recordings concert halls and festivals, including the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, at the Concerti del Quirinale in Rome, Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Great Hall Foundation Mozarteum in Salzburg, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonia Skt. Petersburg, Vancouver Summer Festival, Seoul Arts Center, Cairo Opera House, Toppan Hall and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Wigmore Hall in London.
She has played with many orchestras, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Radio Orchestra in Canada, under the direction of conductors such as Simon Gaudenz, Eliahu Inbal, Mario Bernardi, Antonello Manacorda, Heribert Beissl, Massimiliano Caldi. A special affinity for chamber music regularly brings her together with renowned partners: Ian Bostridge, Vilde Frang, Martin Fröst, Janine Jansen, Gilles Apap, Mario Brunello and many others.
Highlight projects include: the Enescu Festival in Bucharest with the Athens State Orchestra and Stefanos Tsialis, Mozart concerts with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra and Christian Øland, solo concerts for MiTo Festival, Unione Musicale and other venues in Italy, in the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, in Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania.
Saskia Giorgini studied at the Accademia Internazionale di Imola with L. Margarius, at the Accademia di Pinerolo with Enrico Pace and at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Pavel Gililov. She is professor of piano at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz.
The two most recent Liszt albums “Consolations” and “Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses” (Pentatone) by Saskia Giorgini were awarded a “Diapason d’Or” and were named Instrumental Selection of the Month in “BBC Music Magazine” and in “International Piano Magazine” chosen as the record of the month.

Sunday, 18.08.2024
11 a.m., Rittersaal

Saskia Giorgini

Matinée concert

Tickets
Festivalprogramme

Franz Liszt
(1811-1886)
„Harmonies poétiques et religieuses"
(1845-52)
- Der komplette Zyklus-
1. Invocation
2. Ave Maria
3. Benédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
4. Pensée des morts
5. Pater noster
6. Hymne de l´enfant à son réveil
7. Funérailles
8. Miserere d´après Palestrina
9. Andante lagrimoso
10. Cantique d´amour
Konzert ohne Pause/
concert without break