Piano

Peter Jablonski

Founder and Artistic Director, Carlscrona Chamber Music Festival in Sweden

Jablonski’s unique blend of Scandinavian introspection and Eastern European sensitivity, combined with an affinity for the extroversion and optimism of the 20th-century American repertoire, makes him a multi-faceted artist who brings freshness, panache and depth to the concert hall. With a career spanning over 20 years, Jablonski has performed and recorded with the world’s finest orchestras including the Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, La Scala Philharmonic and NHK Tokyo to name a few. He has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev and Esa-Pekka Salonen among others.

Peter Jablonski and the RPO receive four star review

25 Apr 2013

Peter Jablonski gave another highly acclaimed performance on his return to London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall. On April 10th performed Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a...

Peter Jablonski joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in April 2013

04 Apr 2013

Returning to London after an acclaimed performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in January 2012, Peter Jablonski joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in April 2013. Peter will undertake a series...

Peter Jablonski returns from highly successful recital series

04 Apr 2013

Peter Jablonski has recently undertaken a highly successful recital series including appearances in Stockholm, Munich and Augsburg. This was closely followed by an acclaimed performance with...

Peter Jablonski marks the Lutosławski Year performing the composer’s Piano Concerto on the exact centenary his birth

26 Jan 2013

Peter Jablonski suitably marked the celebrations of the Lutosławski Year performing the composer’s Piano Concerto on the exact centenary of Lutosławski’s birth with the Finnish Radio Symphony...

ICA welcomes Peter Jablonski

05 Nov 2012

ICA is delighted to announce that Peter Jablonski has joined its roster of pianists for worldwide representation.

Jablonski’s unique blend of Scandinavian introspection and Eastern European...

“Jablonski's playing was superbly well-tooled technically, with forensic terracing of dynamics, and an ability to make audible individual notes within tightly clustered chord sequences. His account of the closing Andante moderato e tranquillo, a fugal homage to the baroque composer Frescobaldi, was beautifully weighed and measured pianistically, unfolding with impressive gravity of utterance. A similarly scrupulous sensibility informed Jablonski's patiently probing traversal of the Augmented Canon in Inverted Motion from Bach's Art of Fugue, which opened the concert. Thoughtfulness, rather than self-advertisement, was also the keynote of the Chopin Mazukas and Lyric Pieces by Grieg which came after the interval, and while the Grieg Ballade was resoundingly virtuosic in places, it was the poetic restraint of Jablonski's playing which left the more enduring impression. At encore time, he unleashed his more flamboyant side in Earl Wild's transcription of Gershwin's Embraceable You: a delectable tailpiece to a recital rich in interest and thought-provoking musical content.”

Belfast Telegraph - Apr 2013

“(...) After the interval came works by Gershwin, Copland and Samuel Barber. The jazzy extroversion with which he tackled Gershwin's Three Preludes for Piano spoke volumes about his fondness for this music, while Earl Wild's transcription of Embraceable You was breathtaking in its dexterity and finesse. Muted and Sensuous, the fourth of Copland's Four Piano Blues, was a wonderful mix of sleaze and elegance. The case for Barber's Sonata – with its angular lines and sparse sonorities – could not, meanwhile, have been better put. There was one encore – Debussy's Feux d'artifice, sensationally played.”

Tim Ashley, The Guardian - Feb 2012

“(...) Reports of Jablonski’s disarming openness and the generosity of his playing were more than confirmed. But there was a great deal more going on – in terms of his acute response to style and scale, with moments of heart-stopping lyricism, barnstorming bravura and coruscating brilliance. (...) His playing had the sort of magisterial certainty that you used to get from Jorge Bolet, and Jablonski was superb at suspending the transformed final appearance of the main theme over a seething cauldron of red-hot accompaniment.”

Peter Reed, Classicalsource.com - Jan 2012

Born in Sweden to Swedish and Polish parents, Peter Jablonski studied piano and percussion at the Malmo Academy of Music, and later piano and conducting at the Royal College of Music in London. At the age of nine he appeared at the `Village Vanguard` festival in New York receiving praise from the legendary Miles Davis. In his final year at the RCM Jablonski was invited by Vladimir Ashkenazy to record his debut disc with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for Decca, which launched his professional career.

Since his debut in Washington DC in 1992 and at the Royal Festival Hall in 1993, Jablonski has performed and recorded with the world’s finest orchestras including the Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, La Scala Philharmonic and NHK Tokyo among others. He has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

His extensive discography on Decca, Altara Records and Octavia Records features award-winning releases and recordings of new works. Jablonski’s disc of Shostakovich, Rachmaninov and Lutoslawski with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Royal Philharmonic went on to win the coveted Edison Award. His world premier performance of Wojciech Kilar’s Piano Concerto, a work written for and dedicated to him, received the Orpheus Award at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. His most recent recording of Liszt solo works on Octavia Records was awarded Disc of the Month in the Japanese Gramophone earlier this year.

Highlights of the past season include recitals at the London International Piano Series at the Queen Elisabeth Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, Stockholm Berwaldhallen and Tokyo Suntory Hall as well as concerto engagements with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, and Mostly Mozart Orchestra at Lincoln Center New York. This season Jablonski appears with the Finnish Radio Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, Brussels Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic on tour in the UK, and in recitals in Tokyo, Brussels, Munich and Seoul.

Recently Peter Jablonski has taken up conducting and last season he made a recording of Mozart and Beethoven concerti directing the Swedish Chamber Philharmonia from the keyboard.

A passionate chamber musician, Jablonski is the founder and Artistic Director of the Carlscrona Chamber Music Festival in Sweden.

May 2013

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