Piano Recital - Rejsi Prosi

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Rejsi Prosi was Born in Tirana in 2001 into an Albanian artist family. Both of her parents are violinists in the Tirana Opera Orchestra, and her grandfather, Sandër Prosi, is one of the most famous actors in Albania. In this artistic environment, she began her pianistic training at the age of six at the Jordan Misja Art Conservatory. For several years she has continued her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in the class of Univ.-Prof. Eike Straub gone. For her extraordinary achievements, she was awarded scholarships from the Styria Media Group, the Rotary Club Graz, the Marta Debelli Scholarship, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Hinker Fund and the Art University Graz supported.

Her musical development was shaped by master classes with internationally renowned pianists such as Natalia Trull, Cyprien Katsaris, Libor Novacek, Matti Raekallio, Paul Gulda, Teresa Trevisan, Johannes Marian, Harald Ossberger, Stephan Möller and Manfred Wagner-Artzt. She also received important artistic impulses at international festivals, including the Valletta Piano International Festival (Malta), the Haus Marteau Festival (Germany), the Pellegrina Festival (Czech Republic), the Montenegro International Piano Festival and the European Summer Music Academy (Kosovo).

Rejsi Prosi is a winner of over 25 national and international competitions. In Albania she has been awarded prizes such as the “Tirana Talent”, the “Chopin Prize”, the “Lola Gjoka Prize” and the “Pjeter Gaci Prize”. Further successes took her to Italy, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. In 2022 she won first prize in the prestigious competition of the Association Les Musicales du Center in France, which has existed in Paris since 1901. A year later, another highlight of her career followed: winning first prize in the USA with a subsequent debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York as a soloist and chamber musician.

Rejsi performed for the first time as a soloist with an orchestra at the age of ten, when she played Haydn's D major concerto with the opera orchestra in Tirana. She later performed Chopin's Grande Polonaise brilliante with the Albanian Radio Orchestra as part of the “Albanian Young Musicians” competition, which is part of the Eurovision competition. Numerous further appearances with orchestras followed, including Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in the Czech Republic (2020) and a concert tour through Albania with the OSFA Orchestra under the direction of Thomas Fheodoroff, where she played Mozart's D minor Concerto in 2024.

In addition to her competition successes, she has built up an international concert profile. Rejsi Prosi could be heard in important halls and festivals, including: in the Carnegie Hall (New York), in the Stefaniensaal of the Grazer Musikverein as part of a project by the Graz University of Art, in the Mozarthaus Vienna, in the Minoritensaal and Florentinersaal in Graz, in Pálffy Palace (Prague), in the Gustav Mahler Philharmonic (Czech Republic), at the Schubertiades concert series in Barcelona, in the National Theater for Opera and Ballet Tirana, in theaters in Shkoder, Durres and Korça, as well as in international venues such as the amphitheater in Tirana, the amphitheater in Prishtina or in the Baroque Hall in Klagenfurt.

PROGRAM: Mozart, Brahms, Ravel, Peci, Ginastera