Javier Perianes

Javier Perianes’s international career has taken him to the world’s most prestigious concert halls, where he has performed with leading orchestras under the direction of conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, Gustavo Dudamel, Klaus Mäkelä, Sakari Oramo, Yuri Temirkanov, Gianandrea Noseda, Gustavo Gimeno, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Simone Young, Juanjo Mena, Iván Fischer, Vladimir Jurowski, David Afkham, François-Xavier Roth and Daniel Harding. He is also a regular guest at international festivals including the BBC Proms, the Lucerne Festival, the Prague Spring International Music Festival and the La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival. In June 2021 he received the Granada Festival Medal of Honour for his long-term collaboration with the festival, where he was also Artist in Residence for 2021. He was awarded the Premio Nacional de Música by Spain’s Ministry of Culture in 2012, and was named Artist of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2019.

In the current (2021/22) concert season, Javier Perianes has given his first recital at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, and has made debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg and with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. Plans include his debuts with the Aurora Orchestra and with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (beginning a multi-year complete cycle of Beethoven piano concertos). In February 2022 he appeared at the Royal Festival Hall in London with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Jonathan Berman, giving the world premiere of the piano concerto Ephemerae by Jimmy López.

As a concerto soloist, Javier Perianes works with renowned orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Cleveland Orchestra, the London, New York, Los Angeles and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and has also performed with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestras among others. He appears regularly as a solo recitalist, and as a chamber musician in collaboration with Tabea Zimmermann and with the Cuarteto Quiroga.

Javier Perianes records exclusively for harmonia mundi, where his diverse discography includes works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Grieg, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel and Bartók, along with repertory by Spanish composers such as Manuel Blasco de Nebra, Federico Mompou, Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina. Most recently, he has recorded a disc of Chopin’s Piano Sonatas no. 2 and no. 3 and the op. 63 Mazurkas (2021), the Ravel CD Jeux de Miroirs (2019) with the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Josep Pons, and, with Tabea Zimmermann, the duo recital album Cantilena (2020), celebrating music from Spain and Latin America. To commemorate the centenary of Claude Debussy’s death in 2018, Perianes devised the recording Les Trois Sonates – The Late Works, which in 2019 won the Gramophone Classical Music Award in the Chamber Music category.