Een bloem – de mens: Ksenia Kouzmenko piano

• 19 July 2025
  • 20:00 – 22:00

On Friday 18 July pianist Ksenia Kouzmenko will present her beautiful program ‘A flower-the human being’ with music by György Kurtág, William Byrd, François Couperin, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Selim Palmgren, Claude Debussy and Sergei Rachmaninov. Ksenia will play her flower program on our Blüthner from 1862 and the Erard from 1901.

Ksenia Kouzmenko is internationally acclaimed for her sensitive and technically impressive piano playing and is much loved as a chamber music partner.

Ksenia Kouzmenko was born in Minsk, Belarus, the daughter of a pianist couple. She began her piano studies with Vladimir Zaretski and Grigory Shershevski at the National Music College of Belarus. At the age of twelve she made her debut as a soloist with orchestra. She graduated with distinction from the National Music Academy of Belarus with Igor Olovnikov. She then studied with Naum Grubert at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She attended many masterclasses with Abbey Simon, György Sándor, Vazha Chachava, Lazar Berman, György Kurtág, Earl Wild, Charles Rosen, Karl-Heinz Kammerling, Ivan Moravec and took part in Bach interpretation courses with professor Walter Blankenheim. In 1997 she was invited to participate as a fellow student in the Summer Festival in Tanglewood (USA).

Ksenia Kouzmenko played with the National Symphony Orchestra of Belarus, the Zeeuws Orkest, the Brabants Orkest, the Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, the Valeriusensemble and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble. She was a soloist in the Kurtág project of the Royal Conservatory under the direction of Reinbert de Leeuw. On the recommendation of György Kurtág himself, she played his “…quasi una fantasia…” with the Orchestra della Svizzerra italiana, under the direction of Olivier Cuendet, during the Lugano Festival in Switzerland. Ksenia made recordings for the National Broadcasting Corporation of Belarus, Dutch television, the BRT, Classic FM, the Concertzender and can be heard regularly on Radio 4 and Brava.

She performs in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, England, Spain, Italy, Russia, Slovenia, Greece. Since 1999 she teaches at the Royal Conservatory and the School for Young Talent in The Hague.

Ksenia Kouzmenko plays solo concerts and chamber music in all possible formations. In over 30 years she has built up an enormously rich repertoire, from Bach to Kurtág. She is constantly looking for new compositions and enjoys creating unusual, inspiring programs. This has resulted in a number of projects with Czech music, including world premieres of a number of pieces from the 20th century. She has also immersed herself in playing the 19th-century Érard grand piano with its special sound properties .

Start: 20:00 | Doors open: 19:30

Entrance: € 25.00 | up to 21 years and students: € 12.50

Reservations: info@huismidwoud.nl