Hommage à Debussy: Childrens Corner, Études Série I & II et al. Julia Dahlkvist

• 1 I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum 02:10
• 2 II. Jimbo's Lullaby 03:08
• 3 III. Serenade for a Doll 02:16
• 4 IV. The Snow is Dancing 02:46
• 5 V. The Little Shepherd 02:46
• 6 VI. Golliwogg's Cake-Walk 02:50
• 7 Hommage a Haydn 02:14
• 8 Le petit negre (The Little Negro) 01:44
• 9 Berceuse heroique 04:15
• 10 Elegie 02:27
• 11 Piece sans titre 01:29
• 12 No. 1. Pour les cinq doigts (For the five fingers) 03:28
• 13 No. 2. Pour les tierces (For thirds) 04:03
• 14 No. 3. Pour les quartes (For fourths) 05:25
• 15 No. 4. Pour les sixtes (For sixths) 04:20
• 16 No. 5. Pour les octaves (For octaves) 02:59
• 17 No. 6. Pour les huit doigts (For eight fingers) 01:38
• 18 No. 7. Pour les degres chromatiques (For chromatic steps) 02:21
• 19 No. 8. Pour les agrements (For ornaments) 05:18
• 20 No. 9. Pour les notes repetees (For repeated notes) 03:21
• 21 No. 10. Pour les sonorites opposees (For opposing sonorities) 05:38
• 22 No. 11. Pour les arpeges composes (For written arpeggios) 04:46
• 23 No. 12. Pour les accords (For chords) 04:51
• Total Runtime 01:16:13

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The young, talented Finnish-Russian pianist Julia Dahlkvist has provided the finale in the four-part Blüthner-Debussy cycle on GENUIN. And she shows that etudes certainly do not have to be dull, nor do children's pieces have to be only for young people. From the slightly elegiac, finely satirical tones of Doctor gradus ad parnassum (Children’s Corner) to the ecstatic chord sequences of the last Etudes, she works out the infinitely detailed richness of Debussy's piano works with superior technique and audible joy in the tone colours. This is Monet for the ears…

Julia Dahlkvist, piano

Julia Dahlkvist
(formerly Mustonen) is gaining a reputation as one of the exciting pianists in Scandinavia. Among a number of prizes in international competitions, she is the winner of Nordic International Piano Competition in 2004 where she was awarded with a Blüthner Grand Piano. During the years 2006-2008 she performed the complete piano repertoire of Claude Debussy on tours in the Nordic countries. Since 2011 she is part of the piano faculty of Karlstad University, Ingesund College of Music.

Julia Dahlkvist is a concert pianist with diverse background. Born in a Finnish-Russian family in Sibiria, she started to play the piano at the age of three under the guidance of her mother, Lidia Mustonen. She has studied several years at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Royal Academy in Dublin as well as at the Stockholm College of Music and Danish Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. Her teachers have been Erik T. Tawaststjerna, Vitali Berzon, John O'Conor, Alicia de Larrocha, Staffan Scheja and Niklas Sivelöv.

The young pianist started to give regular concerts at a very early age and has since performed extensively in Russia, Central Europe and Scandinavia. She has also performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras and appeared in various music festivals, charity concerts, on TV and on the radio. In the year 2001 she performed the Russian debut of Einar Englund´s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic Orchestra. In year 2006-2008 she performed the complete works by Claude Debussy several times in Finland, Sweden and Denmark. In April 2009 she made her debut in Stockholm playing Rachmaninov 1st Piano Concerto together with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

She has been awarded many times, in Finland by: Kordelini Foundation (2002 and 2006), Jenny & Antti Wihuri Foundation (2001 and 2003) and Culture Foundation (2005 and 2010) as well as the Finnish Performing Music Promotion Centre (2006). She war awarded by the Swedish Music Academy, the Anders Wall Foundation and the Freemasons Loge in Stockholm.

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