MUSIC ON PARK AVENUE WITH PER TENGSTRAND: GRIEG’S PIANO CONCERTO

 

Thu - October 29, 2026 - 7:30 pm

Scandinavia House: 58 Park Avenue, NYC

 

$35 ($30 ASF Members)

 

Join us on October 29 for the first concert of the new season of Music on Park Avenue, focusing on Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and his Piano Concerto in A minor. Pianist Per Tengstrand will be joined in Victor Borge Hall by four young musicians from Princeton University to perform Grieg’s famous concerto in a version for Piano and String Quartet, a transcription made by Tengstrand himself.

 

 

이안 김 Ian Kim(from left),  다니엘 리(Daniel Lee), 김지상(Jisang Kymm), 엘리엇 김(Elliott Kim)

 

Ian Kim and Daniel Lee on violin Jisang Kymm on viola and Elliott Kim on cello form the string quartet, who will also perform the first movement of Felix Mendelssohn’s first String Quartet, and with Tengstrand at the piano, we will also hear the beloved andante cantabile movement from Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet.

Thanks to a generous loan by Victor Borge’s grandson Finn, concerts will be performed on Victor Borge’s personal Steinway piano.

 

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

 

PER TENGSTRAND, PIANO

Per Tengstrand was born in 1968 in Växjö, Sweden. He started playing the piano at the age of 6 with his mother as a teacher. At age 16, he went to the Malmö Conservatory of music and later the Conservatory of Paris, where the audience broke the 300-year ban to applaud at the graduation competition after his performance.

 

He was a prize-winner in international competitions in Paris, Brussels and Geneva, and after winning first prize in Cleveland’s International Piano Competition, he debuted at the Lincoln Center in New York in 1997. After that he has performed in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, Musikverein, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has performed as soloist with the Detroit Symphony, National Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, Osaka Philharmonic, The Hague Resident Orchestra, Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, Singapore Symphony, the Nationals Symphony of Taiwan and Orchestre National de France.

 

Mr. Tengstrand’s career highlights include performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto in Suntory Hall with Japan Philharmonic, Beethoven’s Concerto No. 5 during Neeme Järvi’s final subscription concerts with the New Jersey Philharmonic; performances with the National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap; the Residentie Orkest in den Haag, under Neeme Järvi; the Royal Philharmonic in Stockholm, under Leonard Slatkin, and Stenhammar’s first PIano Concerto with Tonkünstler Orchestra Orchestra in Vienna’s Musikverein and Leipzig’s Gewandhaus under the baton of Kristjan Jarvi.

 

Per Tengstrand gave the last concert in the governor’s palace in Hong Kong under British rule, with Chris Patten and Margaret Thatcher in the audience. Together with the Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Jan Eliasson, he made a performance of music and talk at the UN Headquarters in New York.

 

Per Tengstrand is an artistic director of Music on Park Avenue at Scandinavia House, the Princeton Chamber Music Series, and he has a festival in his name in his birth town of Växjö. He is the recipient of the Royal Medal of Litterus and Artibus, which he received from the King of Sweden.  

https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/sh/concerts/music-on-park-avenue-with-per-tengstrand-griegs-piano-concerto  

 

 

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