Petronel Malan
Petronel Malan was born in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa on February 23rd, 1976 and is the Pianist. At the age of 48, Petronel Malan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Petronel Malan was born in Pretoria, South Africa. (She is a South African concert pianist based in the United States.) Petronel Malan, a triple Grammy Award-nominated South African pianist, is the exclusive recording artist for the internationally recognised brand Hänssler Classic, headquartered in Germany.
Transfigured Bach: Bartok, Lipatti, and Ignaz Friedman's Complete Bach Transcriptions was nominated for three Grammy awards, including "Best Instrumental Solo Album." For over 30 weeks, the album was on the top ten lists for Classic FM and was met with a mixture of both critical and audience appeal.
During a 15-concert tour of South Africa in 2006, Mozart's second recording in the series "Transfigured Mozart" was released for the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth.
In 2008, the film "transfigured Beethoven" was first introduced.
The lieder transcriptions of Isaac Mikhnovsky appeared on "Transfigured Tchaikovsky" (2012).
She released "Transfigured Brahms" in 2015, which included world premiere transcriptions by American composer Lowell Liebermann.
She uses the pianos exclusively for her recordings as a Blüthner Artist.
Career
She continued her studies under Joseph Stanford, Steven De Groote, Ralph Votapek and Earl Wild. Petronel completed both her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the University of North Texas College of Music, studying with Joseph Banowetz.
Following her European debut in Rome in 1988, she has continued to make orchestral, recital and chamber music appearances on four continents. Highlights include prestigious venues such as Carnegie Recital Hall, Salle Cortot and Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), Mozarteum (Salzburg), Liszt Museum (Budapest), Kravis Center (West Palm Beach), Orchestra Hall (Chicago) and Bass Hall (Fort Worth) and venues in St. Petersburg, Russia. Festival appearances include the Gilmore Piano Festival, Jasper Music Festival, Great Romantics Festival, Ravinia Festival, Levočské Babie Leto festival (Slovakia), and Music in the Mountains Festival in Colorado. She has worked with conductors like Vasily Petrenko, Bernhard Gueller, Karina Canellakis, Daniel Boico, Dmitry Manilov, Omri Hadari, Yashima Takeda, Bernhard Gueller and Fuzao Kajima. Broadcasts for television, radio and the web include live performances in Europe, Canada, across the US (also on NPR) and several documentary television-profiles in South Africa.
She maintains a full performing schedule across the world as a recitalist, orchestral soloist and chamber musician. She frequently judges piano competitions, conducts master classes and presents lectures across the United States and South Africa.