The acclaim accorded to the pianist Javier Perianes [www.javierperianes.com] by audiences and critics alike confirms his status as one of Spain’s most exciting new artists. Hugely popular with Spanish audiences, he has a growing international reputation.

A familiar and sought-after participant at many renowned festivals within Spain, he was the Artist in Residence at the Granada Festival in 2012 and will be in-residence at Teatro de la Maestranza and Seville Orchestra during season 2012/13.  He has performed in distinguished concert series throughout the world, having made notable appearances in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, London, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, the Shanghai Conservatory, Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional, recitals at the Ravinia and Gilmore International Festivals in Chicago, Le festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron, France and the Konzerthaus, Berlin.

Javier Perianes has worked with leading conductors including Lorin Maazel, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jesús López Cobos, Antoni Wit, Daniel Harding and Vassily Petrenko. Recent and forthcoming highlights include appearances with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse under Tugan Sokhiev, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra under Hugh Wolff, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under Joseph Swensen, the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini under Kazushi Ono, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic under Yuri Temirkanov, the New World Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, the London Philharmonic and the Sao Paulo Symphony under Eduardo Portal, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Hiroshi Kodama, Warsaw Philharmonic conducted by Claus Peter Flor as well as recitals in Tokyo, Madrid’s Scherzo series, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Moscow December Nights Festival and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Perianes has received critical acclaim for his recordings on Harmonia Mundi of Schubert’s Impromptus and Klavierstücke, Manuel Blasco de Nebra’s keyboard sonatas and Mompou’s Música Callada. In 2011 he released on this label a disc devoted to the music for piano by Manuel de Falla, including a live recording of Nights in the Gardens of Spain with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Josep Pons. Javier’s latest CD was released on Harmonia Mundi in September 2012 - Beethoven Moto perpetuo Sonatas Nos 12, 17, 22, 27.

In 2012 Perianes received the "National Music Prize" awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain, for his commitment to the dissemination of Spanish music, his international presence in major festivals and concert halls in the world with orchestras and renowned directors, and his human values.

May 2013