A programme with the works by Russian composers of the 20th century (Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Sedrin, Scriabin, Stravinsky) is going to be presented in one’s person concert on July 12th at 21:00, by the piano artist Galina Chistiakova.

The concert is organized under the framework of the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art and is going to take place in the atrium of the Museum of Byzantine Culture in an aesthetic dialogue with Vadim Zakharov’s installation “Black Birds”.
The young pianist from Russia is going to present to the public of Thessaloniki few of the most important masterpieces of the piano artistry of the 20th century, exploiting the variety of each of the composers’ style that she has chose to present. Her concert will cover works that Shostakovich and Sedrin have dedicated to children and works that reached the climax of the music revolution that was presented at the end of the 20th century by Sergey Dyagilev in Paris, as well as the celebrated ‘Petrouska’ by Stravinsky. Moreover, the concert will cover the ‘dark’ “Illusions” by Prokofiev, as well as his renowned masterpiece “Montecchi i Capuleti”.  In addition, this concert wouldn’t be as magnificent if it wasn’t presenting the work of A. Scriabin, one of the most eminent Russian composers whose work gave the signal to the repertoire of music for piano. 
Galina Chistiakova was born in Moscow and since she was eleven years old, she started playing the piano on several stages of the most significant concert halls of the world.  She has performed as a soloist (solo or with an orchestra) in France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Finland, Czech Republic, Munich, Japan and many more.  She is the student of the distinguished Russian piano player Mikhail Voskresensky and she has received several distinctions in national competitions in Russia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ukraine and many more. 
This is going to be Galina Chistiakova’s first appearance in Thessaloniki, which is considered to be an important event for her, a personal and spiritual exploitation, a return to her roots in a way, since her ancestors had migrated from Thessaloniki to Russia, relatively recently, during the Interwar period.