Photo: Benjamin EalovegaSimon Trpčeski
Macedonia; trained in Skopje
Simon Trpčeski was born in Macedonia in 1979 and graduated from the School of Music at the University of St.
- BBC New Generation Artist, 2001–03
- Royal Philharmonic Society award, 2003
- All Rachmaninoff concertos with Petrenko
- First National Artist of Macedonia
“A first-rate virtuoso without a hint of histrionics.”
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Cyril and St. Methodius in Skopje, where he studied with Boris Romanov. He was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2001 to 2003 and won the Royal Philharmonic Society's Young Artist Award in 2003.
He has since played with more than a hundred orchestras on four continents. With Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic he recorded all of Rachmaninoff's piano concertos, plus the Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev concertos. Seven of his solo albums are devoted to Russian music: Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov.
His MAKEDONISSIMO project fuses Macedonian folk music with virtuosic, jazz-inflected piano writing. In 2011 he became the first-ever National Artist of Macedonia. In February 2027 he plays Ginastera's Concierto Argentino and Albéniz's Rapsodia española with the Oregon Symphony.
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