Chopin’s Piano Music. Kirill Lissijenko (piano)

Saturday, 14 November 2026 at 18:00
Pärnu Eliisabet Church

CHOPIN’S PIANO MUSIC
Kirill Lissijenko (piano)

Programme: Chopin

Outstanding pianist Kirill Lissijenko plans to perform Frédéric Chopin’s complete piano works as part of the Musica Sacra series. Chopin’s nocturnes are among the most intimate and poetic works of Romantic piano music. The programme includes nocturnes from Opp. 15, 32, 55 and 62, spanning the composer’s creative journey from his early period to maturity and revealing the development of his expressive style. The bel canto-like elegance of the earlier nocturnes grows in the later works into increasingly free and contemplative musical speech.

Kirill Lissijenko began studying the piano at the age of 11 and completed music school for children in four years. At the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School, he studied piano with Ia Remmel and Ralf Taal. In 2010, he graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, where his teachers were Prof. Lilian Semper, Irina Zahharenkova and Age Juurikas. In 2016, he graduated with a master’s degree from the Sibelius Academy, studying in Hui-Ying Liu-Tawaststjerna’s piano class, and completed the master’s programme in chamber music at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre under the supervision of Matti Reimann. He has also furthered his studies in masterclasses with leading pianists such as Tamas Ungar, Rolf Plagge, Cyprien Katsaris and Daniel Pollack.

He has performed successfully at the Helmi Valtman Foundation Competition and the Con Brio Competition in Tallinn. In 2015, he received second prize at the international Alion Baltic Competition. Kirill performs regularly in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Italy and Russia, both as a soloist and chamber musician. His ensemble partners have included Nadia Kurem, Sigrid Kuulmann, Silvia Ilves, Aare Tammesalu, Kristina Kriit, Toomas Vavilov, Neeme Ots, Andre Cebrian Garea and Maria Veretenina.

He studied harpsichord with Reinut Tepp and Imbi Tarum and has also been a member of a baroque ensemble. He has worked as a piano accompanist in the string department of the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School. As an orchestra soloist, he has performed, among other engagements, with the symphony orchestra of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre under the direction of Paul Mägi and in Italy with Master Orchestra under the direction of Sergio Baietta. He is also the artistic director of the MozartFest festival in Tallinn.

https://www.lissijenko.com/

The concert lasts approximately one hour. Latecomers will not be admitted. Photography and filming are not permitted.

The concert series is accompanied by an audience education programme for students, under which a group of students and the teacher or other group leader accompanying them may attend the concert free of charge. To join the programme, please contact ooper@parnu.ee.

In cooperation with: Eesti Kultuurkapital, Pärnu City, EELK Pärnu Eliisabet Congregation, Tartu City, EELK Tartu University-Jaani Congregation, Autorfest and Pärnu Ooper.

MUSICA SACRA is a concert series whose aim is to present new works, give performers the opportunity to realise artistically outstanding concert programmes, involve high-level guest musicians in addition to Estonian musicians, and take concert projects from Estonia abroad. The concerts take place on Saturdays at six o’clock in Pärnu Eliisabet Church. The concert series is organised by Pärnu Ooper, and its artistic director is Andrus Kallastu.

The €15 recording supporter admission fee should be paid to Pärnu Ooper’s bank account at Swedbank:
Payee: PÄRNU OOPERISELTS
Account: EE382200221016501589
Payment description: SALVESTUSE TOETAJAPÄÄSE

Founded on 5 January 1993, Pärnu Ooper has offered quality music-making and intriguing theatrical solutions through diverse productions. In addition to the standard repertoire of music history, Pärnu Ooper’s concerts and performances include mysterious church compositions, contemporary opera, performances, multimedia shows, dramatised concerts and experimental music theatre. At the heart of Pärnu Ooper is the international Repoo Ensemble, comprising composers, performers, writers, visual artists, actors and other creative people. Pärnu Ooper organises the SUVEAARIA festival and the MUSICA SACRA concert series, whose concerts take place in Pärnu Eliisabet Church, known for its excellent acoustics. The artistic director of Pärnu Ooper is composer and conductor Andrus Kallastu.