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Chopin album out on May 2nd

Emils new solo album featuring solo piano works by Chopin is released on May 2nd.

The album is titled CHOPIN: 24 Preludes & Sonata No. 2, and it consists of Chopin’s twenty-four preludes Op. 28 and the Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 38.More

Debut on Royal Theatre’s Old Stage

On May 25 at 3 PM, Emil will perform for the first time on the Danish Royal Theatre’s “Gamle Scene” (Old Stage), in a concert featured under the Royal Orchestra’s chamber music series.

Emil will perform music by Schubert: “Auf dem Strom” and the Trout Quintet, alongside soprano Louise McClelland and members of the Royal Danish Orchestra.

Concerts Spring 2025

The concert calendar has been updated with events for the spring of 2025.

Emil’s concert activities includes performances at Kammermusikforeningen af 1868, Royal Danish Theatre, Garnisons Kirke, Brøndby Strand Kirke, Faaborg Musikforening, Bornholms Musikforening, Silkeborg Classics, and lecture-concert at Royal Danish Academy of Music with Søren Schauser.

See Events page for more.

PhD studies at Orpheus Institute

From September 2024 onwards, Emil is a PhD student at the Orpheus Institute in Gent, Belgium in the docARTES program.

Read about Emil’s PhD research project here.

Read about the Orpheus Institute here.

Emil continues to be assistant professor of piano and chamber music at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.

Mr. Gryesten Jensen posseses a glorious sound, and a pianistic quality of the highest standard.

Helsingin Sanomat

 

He is a full-blooded romantic and an emotionally powerful musician (…) Emil Gryesten succeeded in combining thrilling virtuosity with captivating music-making.

Jyllands-Posten

Upcoming Events

20257:00PM

Lied Recital

Endelave Summer Concerts

Lied recital with soprano Helle Gössler

Songs by Grieg, Strauss, Sibelius

More information coming soon.

20257:30PM

Silkeborg Classics

Silkeborg Classic Concerts

Solo recital: Incl. Liszt, Wagner-Brassin

Link

20257:00PM

Violin and Piano

Elsted Kirke

Concert with violinist Ian van Rensburg.

Sonatas for violin and piano by Beethoven and Strauss.

More information coming soon.

20259:30AM

Lecture Recital

Sibelius Academy, Helsinki Music Centre

Lecture recital: “Somathemes and the Hammerklavier Sonata”

At the Doctors in Performance conference.

Link

20253:00PM

Lemvig Musikforening

Lemvig Gymnasium

Concert with violinist Kumi Shimizu

Sonatas for violin and piano by Beethoven and Strauss.

More information coming soon.

20253:00PM

Trio Concert

Lemvig Musikforening

Trio concert with August Finkas, clarinet; Morten Lyngs, violin.

Works by Mozart, Bartok, Stravinsky.

More information coming soon.