PETRONEL MALAN
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"I LOVE BLÜTHNER PIANOS!!"
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| Member Since | 3/17/2007 | | Band Website | petronelmalan.com | | Band Members | | | Record Label | Hänssler Classic | | Type of Label | Major |
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| About PETRONEL MALAN |
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Grammy® Nominated South African pianist PETRONEL MALAN is an exclusive recording artist for the internationally award-winning label Hänssler Classic. Her debut disc “Transfigured Bach: The Complete Bach Transcriptions of Bartok, Lipatti and Friedman,” was nominated for three Grammy® Awards, including "Best Instrumental Solo Album 2004”. Her second recording "Transfigured Mozart,” was released in 2006 to critical acclaim and another "Transfigured -” album is slated for international release in 2007. As a "Blüthner Concert Artist" she uses these pianos exclusively for her recordings.
Born in South Africa, she started piano lessons with her mother, an opera singer, at age four. Considered the "last prodigy" of Adolph Hallis, (a student of Matthay and Leschetizky) she debuted with the Johannesburg Symphony at the age of ten and won every competition she was eligible to enter in South Africa – including the youngest winner ever of the coveted SABC Music Prize. After her European debut in 1987, she also won the first prize at the Third International Piano Competition in Marsala, Sicily. She studied under Joseph Stanford, Steven de Groote and Ralph Votapek and relocated to the United States in 1991 to pursue her career.
She continues to appear as recitalist, orchestra soloist and chamber musician on four continents. Highlights include venues such as Carnegie Recital Hall, Salle Cortot (Paris), Mozarteum (Salzburg), Liszt Museum (Budapest), Kravis Center (West Palm Beach), Orchestra Hall (Chicago), Bass Hall (Fort Worth), Caramoor (Katonah, NY), Ravinia Concerts and Gilmore Festival, to name but a few. She appeared with orchestras such as the St. Petersburg State Academy Orchestra, Sicilian Chamber Orchestra, the Fort Collins, Elgin and Bellevue Symphonies and the Cape Town and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestras, under the batons of Vasily Petrenko, Dmitry Manilov, Omri Hadari, Yashima Takeda, Bernhard Gueller, James Brooks and Fuzao Kajima.
In 2000, she won four gold medals at the Louise McMahon International Music Competition, the Missouri Southern - , the Hilton Head - and Los Angeles Liszt Competitions. She was also a grand prizewinner in the 2000 Web Concert Hall Competition and first prize winner in the Entergy Young Artist Award and the Grace Welsh Piano Prize.
In 2003, she received the "Rapport/City Press Prestige Award" as one of the “10 Most Inspirational Women in South Africa.” Ms. Malan completed her undergraduate degree at Michigan State University and her graduate studies at the University of North Texas, studying with Joseph Banowetz.
An icon in the South African music world, scholarships are annually donated in her name. Petronel has graced magazine covers, appeared as a picture-clue in crossword puzzles and make regular charity appearances when in South Africa. Apart from a love for vintage gowns, her stage wardrobe is designed by foremost South African designers such as Henja Schaap and Hip Hop Clothing. A supporter of classical music in schools, she makes time in her schedule to speak to students about classical music.
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