Concert: Around the World: A Violin and Piano Evening
Artists: Asaf Kleinman and Eszter Kleinman-Stankowsky
Date: 8th April, 2017. 19:30
Venue: Fuling Grand Theatre, Chongqing
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Asaf Kleinman was born in 1986 in Israel where he started his musical studies in piano and composition at the age of seven. Asaf Kleinman has been praised as a "unique talent" by critics and audience alike and is quickly gaining the recognition as one of the most distinguished Israeli pianists in his generation currently based in Europe. Russian eminent pianist Nikolai Petrov described him as a "rare musician and pianist", and since his debut at the "Musical Kremlin" festival in Moscow at 2004 by his invitation, he performs extensively as a soloist and a chamber music player in Israel, Europe and other parts of the world. Some of the venues he has performed include The Kremlin in Moscow, Xi'an Concert Hall in China, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Théâtre de Vevey in Switzerland or Chișinău Organ Hall in the Republic of Moldova.

Eszter Kleinman-Stankowsky was born in Hungary in 1985 where she started her musical studies at the age of six. She graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest with the highest honors. There she has studied violin with Vilmos Szabadi and chamber music with Márta Gulyás. She finished her studying at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid under Marco Rizzi. During her studies there she has won the chamber music prize receiving it from the hands of her majesty Queen Sofía of Spain. Eszter has worked as well with artists such as Ivry Gitlis, Vadim Repin, Günter Pichler, András Keller and Ferenc Rados among others. Important halls she has played in include Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Teatro Principal de Alicante in Spain, the Great Hall of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest or the Festetics Palace in Hungary.