Sergei Prokofiev Piano Sonatas album launch and recital. Antonina Suhanova, piano
Thursday 12 November 2026, 7.30 pm (doors open 7pm)
£25 (£10 Students and under 25s)
Post-concert drinks
A note from Antonina Suhanova: My debut album, featuring Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 and 8, will be released on September 4th by the Swiss label Prospero Classical. To mark the occasion, I am hoping to organise a album launch concert in London sometimes in the autumn, and I immediately thought of the Razumovsky Academy as a wonderful venue for such an event. I would like to suggest a programme of 20th century piano repertoire and its evolution. I have also included a few short pieces by Jazeps Vitols (who was briefly Prokofiev’s professor in composition in Saint-Petersburg conservatoire and he was a Latvian). Of course in the centre of the recital is Prokofiev Sonata No.8.
Programme
Jazeps Vitols Three Latvian folk songs, Op. 29 (1900)
Benjamin Britten Three Character Pieces (1930)
John – Daphne – Michael
Oliver Knussen. Prayer Bell Sketch, Op. 29 (1997)
Sergei Prokofiev Piano Sonata No.8, Op.84 in B flat major (1944)
Andante dolce – Andante sognando – Vivace
Sir Stephen Hough Sonatina Nostalgica (2019)
The road from Danebank – The bench by the Dam – A gathering at the Cross
Antonina Suhanova has established an international career as a concert pianist, performing at prestigious venues such as Steinway Hall in New York, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, and the Southbank Centre in London. She has appeared as a soloist with the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the Estonian Chamber Orchestra, the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra, and other ensembles, collaborating with distinguished conductors including Andris Nelsons and Vladimir Spivakov. Her Wigmore Hall solo debut was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, while other performances have been featured on Latvian Radio 3 Klasika, Russia’s Channel One, and Switzerland’s Espace 2.
Antonina is a recipient of the Hattori Foundation Award, the Kenneth Loveland Gift, the Drake Calleja Trust award, Help Musicians UK, Making Music UK and the Worshipful Company of Musicians and the Oleg Prokofiev Trust. Other awards include the William Brown Prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition and a nomination for the International German Piano Award.
Born in Riga and based in London, Antonina studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the tutelage of Ronan O’Hora. Following her graduation, she was appointed Junior Fellow of the school. Her artistic development was further shaped by the guidance of leading pianists including Steven Osborne, Matti Raekallio, Robert Levin, and Yefim Bronfman.