Emil Gryesten

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.

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.

Once again, Emil is taking part in a performance of the Brahms Requiem with Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir and piano duo partner Rikke Sandberg, on Palm Sunday – March 24 at Holmens Kirke, Copenhagen.

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The photographer Nikolaj Lund has produced two short videos with music from Emil’s recent album: Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas.

Hammerklavier opening

Sonata op. 109, movement II

Some highlights of the upcoming concert season, winter-spring 2024 (more will be added soon!):

January 20 – Viborg Musiksal – Ravel Trio – Kammermusik ved Fjorden

February 22 – Kunsthal Kongegaarden – “Contrasts” – trio with August Finkas & Morten Lyngs

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Articles relating to Emil Gryesten & Thomas Solak’s artistic research project Beethoven Reconstructed, about Schenkerian analysis and the interpretation of Beethoven’s late piano sonatas, are now published on the homepage of the Royal Danish Academy of Music:

Beethoven Reconstructed

For now, articles by Solak are only in Danish, but an English translation is under way.