Mastermind: el genio Milan Slijepčević. Festival Internacional de Piano Dénia 2025

The fifth and final concert of this third Denia Internation Piano Festival on December 4 is given by a young pianist who recently won first prize at the Franz Liszt Center Piano Competition. With the title “Mastermind”, Serbian Milan Slijepčević will play a demanding and ambitious programme that promises a rich and varied musical experience, with a few fireworks at the end.

Milan Slijepčević’s concert will start with Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze op6, eighteen characteristic pieces from the composer’s early career. He will follow with a Debussy Prelude “La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune”, and then the lyrical Fifth Sonata of Scriabin. Then to finish, he will play the Second Sonata of Prokofiev.

Born in 2000, Milan Slijepčević has been described as performing the Schumann “with his customary sensitivity and mastery.” He is described as “a young pianist who has already conquered the international music scene with his virtuosity and ability to interpret works with great expressive maturity.”

Ars Alta Cultural gives priority to the promotion of young artists and in this fifth concert of the festival, our organisation is achieving its goal. Milan Slijepčević, however, is an amazing pianist and already an accomplished performer. He will certainly not disappoint and has the potential to bring this third Denia International Piano Festival to a rousing and spectacular conclusion.

Programme:

1. R. Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, op. 6

I Lebhaft (Florestan und Eusebius)

II Innig (E.)

III Etwas hahnbüchen (F.)

IV Ungeduldig (F.)

V Einfach (E.)

VI Sehr rasch und in sich hinein (F.)

VII Nicht schnell. Mit äußerst starker

Empfindung. (E.)

VIII Frisch (F.)

IX Hierauf schloß Florestan und es

zuckte ihm schmerzlich um die

Lippen.

X Balladenmäßig. Sehr rasch. (F.)

XI Einfach (E.)

XII Mit Humor (F.)

XIII Wild und lustig (F. u. E.)

XIV Zart und singend (E.)

XV Frisch (F. u. E.)

XVI Mit gutem Humor

XVII Wie aus der Ferne (F. u. E.)

XVIII Ganz aus Überfluss meinte

Eusebius noch Folgendes, dabei

sprach aber viel Seligkeit aus

seinen Augen.

2. C. Debussy: Prelude No. 7, Book 2, “La terrasse des audiences du clair

de lune”

3. A. Scriabin: Sonata No. 5, Op. 53

4. S. Prokofiev: Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14

I Allegro ma non troppo

II Scherzo: Allegro marcato

III Andante

IV Vivace