Since winning the Debut Audience Prize in 2006, Dutch/Russian pianist Daria van den Bercken (b. 1979) has been performing widely in The Netherlands in all the main concert halls and festivals. Recent solo engagements include recitals in Europe, USA, Canada, Jordan, Indonesia, New Zealand, Brasil, Australia and Japan. During her studies Ms van den Bercken won first prizes in several competitions, including the 2005 Vriendenkrans Competition of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. In September 2010, she was finalist in the first International Paul Badura-Skoda Piano Competition in Spain.

In 2007 Ms van den Bercken made her debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra performing Clara Schumann’s Piano concerto. National newspapers talked ‘Daria van den Bercken’s strikingly strong debut’. She returned to this orchestra in the 08/09 season under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin and furthermore made her debut with the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as performing with several other Dutch orchestras. Ms van den Bercken has also worked with Christoph Poppen, JoAnn Falletta, Ivan Meylemans and Shi-Yeon Sung. She appeared for the third time with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra playing Messiaen’s Oiseaux Exotiques. In recent seasons, she also appeared in such music festivals as the Delft Chamber Music Festival, The Rotterdam International Gergiev Festival, the Stift Festival, Virada Cultural Sao Paulo 2012 and the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam.

Ms van den Bercken finished her studies in Bloomington, Indiana (USA, 2002) with Menahem Pressler and Leonard Hokanson, and at the Amsterdam Conservatory with

Mila Baslawskaja and Naum Grubert. Masterclasses and additional study with Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Marie-Françoise Bucquet and Alicia de Larrocha have been important to her musical development.

In addition to her solo performances, Ms van den Bercken is an active chamber musician, often performing with singers and ensembles. She regularly gives children’s concerts all around the Netherlands and taught at Escola Esproarte, a school that adopted the Venezuelan system El Sistema in Portugal.

Her project ‘Handel At The Piano’ is aimed at getting a worldwide audience acquainted with the keyboards works of George Frideric Handel. For this, she was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize 2012,

the capital’s most prestigious art prize. In 2012 the CD of Handel Suites for Keyboard was released on the Sony Classical label.

for bookings, information and interview requests nadja schnetzlernadja.schnetzler@word-and-deed.org+41 79 251 11 56

www.dariavandenbercken.comwww.handelatthepiano.com

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