Premiere Année:
Suisse
Deuxieme Année:
Italie
Supplement:
Venezia e Napoli
Troisieme Année

Liszt’s Années de Pelerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) is a set of three suites for solo piano. Liszt's complete musical style is evident in this masterwork, ranging from virtuosic fireworks to deeply personal emotional statements. Throughout these collections, Liszt documents the process of his own artistic maturity, through his travels. The third volume is especially notable as an example of his later style. It was composed well after the first two volumes and displays less showy virtuosity and more harmonic experimentation.

The young pianist Julian Gorus began his musical studies at the age of four in his hometown of Varna, Bulgaria, and graduated with special marks from secondary school at age 15. He attended the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz, Germany, until 2003. Throughout his career, Gorus has received numerous awards and prizes, including Third Prize in the Varna Competition for Czech and Slovakian Music, and a Special Prize for best performance of Czech and Slovakian music, First Prize in the Varna Czech and Slovakian Competition (1991); Third Prize in the Albert Roussel Piano Competition (1992); First Prize in the Bremen (Germany) International Piano Competition (2003); and Second Prize (a first was not awarded) in the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Weimar, Germany, in 2003. Julian has been a frequent participant in international music festivals including “March Music Days”, Rousse, Bulgaria (1990); “Varna Summer”, Varna, Bulgaria (1992); Istanbul, Turkey (1995); Deutschlandsberg/Austria (2004); and the Bonner Beethoven Festival (2004).