Javier Perianes

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}

{{short description|Spanish classical pianist}}

File:BOS- Perianes12.jpg

Javier Perianes (born 24 September 1978 in Nerva, Spain){{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/javier-perianes-mn0002234777|title=Javier Perianes Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & ...|website=AllMusic|access-date=24 September 2024}}{{cite web | title = Javier Perianes: " I enjoy reality without too many dreams " | date = 1 May 2019 | url = https://www.icma-info.com/javier-perianes-i-enjoy-reality-without-too-many-dreams/ |website=Icma-info.com| access-date = 23 October 2019}} is a Spanish classical pianist.{{cite news | title = Facing the music: Javier Perianes | newspaper = The Guardian| date = 13 April 2015 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/13/facing-the-music-q-and-a-pianist-javier-perianes}} He is a participant at many renowned festivals within Spain, including Santander, Granada, Peralada and San Sebastián. He has performed in distinguished concert series throughout the world,{{Cite web|url=https://theartsdesk.com/classical-music/javier-perianes-qeh-review-not-spanish-fire-eater-world-class-poet|title=Javier Perianes, QEH review – not a Spanish fire-eater but a world-class poet|website=theartsdesk.com|date=17 April 2019|access-date=22 September 2020}} having made appearances in New York City's Carnegie Hall, Washington DC {{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/at-solo-recital-two-sides-to-spanish-pianist-javier-perianes/2017/05/01/6142adc6-2dcc-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html|title=Review | At solo recital, two sides to Spanish pianist Javier Perianes|first=Simon|last=Chin|date=1 May 2017|access-date=22 September 2020|via=www.washingtonpost.com}} Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Shanghai Conservatory, Madrid's Auditorio Nacional, Palau in Barcelona, recitals at the Ravinia and Gilmore International Festivals in Chicago, Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron in France and the Konzerthaus in Berlin.

He has been a frequent prize-winner at competitions, including First Prize and gold medal at the 42nd International Competition Premio Jaén de Piano; First Prize at the 8th International Piano Competition Fundación Jacinto e Inocencio Guerrero; and was a prize-winner at the 14th International Competition Vianna da Motta in Lisbon.

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 Vasily Petrenko. Recent and forthcoming highlights include appearances with the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, including a performance at the Lucerne Festival, the New World Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, the London Philharmonic and Sao Paulo Symphony with Eduardo Portal, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Hiroshi Kodama, Warsaw Philharmonic, as well as recitals in Tokyo, Madrid's Scherzo series, the Zurich Tonhalle and at the Moscow December Nights Festival.

Perianes has received critical acclaim for his recordings on Harmonia Mundi of Schubert's Impromptus and Klavierstücke,{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/13/schubert-piano-sonatas-d960-d664-cd-review-javier-perianes-harmonia-mundi|title=Schubert: Piano Sonatas D960 & D664 CD review – sensitivity and rapture|date=13 April 2017|website=the Guardian|access-date=22 September 2020}} Mendelssohn{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/11333257/Javier-Perianes-Mendelssohn-Lieder-ohne-Worte-review-a-warmth-of-touch.html|title=Javier Perianes, Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte, review: 'a warmth of touch'|website=The Telegraph|date=10 January 2015 |access-date=22 September 2020}}Manuel Blasco de Nebra's keyboard sonatas and Federico Mompou's Música Callada. In September 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.

In 2015, he released a recording of Grieg's Piano Concerto, accompanied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo, coupled with a selection of the composer's Lyric Pieces.

Quote from the Michael Kennedy of the Sunday Telegraph regarding his Schubert CD (Harmonia Mundi):

"This young Spanish pianist proves himself a natural Schubertian in the Impromptus (D 899). He is beautifully recorded so that his playing can be fully appreciated. The disc also includes the Klavierstücke (D 946) and the less well-known Allegretto in C minor (D 915), a wonderful piece all the more compelling for being understated. Perianes's playing captures its magic to perfection."Sunday Telegraph (Schubert: Impromptus, Allegretto Harmonia Mundi HMI 987080) – Feb 2008