Emil Gryesten

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

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.

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.

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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