Danae Dörken performs East & West at Oak Ridge TN; Feb 14, 2026

Описание: 00:00:00 Title
00:00:06 Frédéric Chopin — Polonaise Op. 26, No. 1
00:11:55 Manolis Kalomiris — Nocturne
00:17:17 Franz Liszt — Love Dream No. 3
00:22:11 Béla Bartók — Romanian Folk Dances BB 68
00:28:37 Franz Schubert — 12 Ländler D. 790
00:39:11 Edvard Grieg — edding Day at Troldhaugen
00:45:47 Franz Liszt — Paraphrase on Verdi's Rigoletto
00:53:50 Manuel de Falla — Danse Rituelle du Feu

Oak Ridge Civic Music Association
Chamber Series
Presents
Danae Dörken plays at Oak Ridge TN
Feb 14 2026

Artist
Biography

"Is the young pianist the discovery of the year?" asked the
classical music magazine Crescendo – and answered in the
affirmative. The reviewers of the magazine Concerti also
consider her to be "on her way right to the top". The German-
Greek pianist Danae Dörken belongs to the elite of a new
generation of internationally sought-after artists and
captivates audiences and fellow musicians alike with her
breathtaking technique, exceptional stage presence and
musical depth.

Danae Dörken was already supported by Yehudi Menuhin when
she was seven years old and caught the attention of audiences
in leading European concert halls early on with "her sparkling
joy of playing" (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger). After studying with the
internationally revered piano pedagogue Karl-Heinz
Kämmerling and with the renowned soloist and teacher Lars
Vogt, she is now a regular guest with leading orchestras such as
the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, the Düsseldorfer
Symphoniker, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, the
Münster Symphony Orchestra, the Helsingborg Symphony
Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the
Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Prague Symphony Orchestra,
the Nordic Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia,
the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the
Norrlandsoperan Symphony, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg
and the Staatskapelle Weimar.

Danae Dörken has performed at London's Wigmore Hall, the
Philharmonie de Paris, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the
Mozarteum Salzburg, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Bozar in
Brussels, the Megaron in Athens, the Brucknerhaus Linz, the
Philharmonie Köln, the Gasteig Munich, the Konzerthaus
Berlin, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the
Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Beethoven-Haus Bonn. She
regularly performs at important festivals such as the Kissinger
Sommer, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, LuganoMusica, the
Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, the Dresdner
Musikfestspiele, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the
GAIA Music Festival, the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker
and the prestigious chamber music festival "Spannungen" in
Heimbach.

The 2024/25 season is full of highlights for Danae Dörken. She
will appear at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in
New York with her long-time chamber music partner Sebastian
Manz. As a piano soloist, she will perform Gershwin's Piano
Concerto and de Falla's Nights in Spanish Gardens in concert
with the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra, Beethoven's Fourth
Piano Concerto with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
and Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with the Bad
Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also been invited
to return to the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, where
she will perform the piano part in Scriabin's Prometheus under
the baton of James Gaffigan.

As part of a piano duo with her sister Kiveli, she will be
performing at numerous concerts, including some at the
Festspielfrühling Rügen, the spring festival forming part of the
Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where in addition she
will also be performing with percussionist Alexei Gerassimez.

The album GLASS TWO, a joint project with the Luxembourg
vibraphonist and composer Pascal Schumacher, will be
released at the end of 2024. This programme of works by Philip
Glass and Schumacher will be performed at the
Elbphilharmonie and other venues.

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Greek national
composer Mikis Theodorakis in 2025, a very personal album by
Danae Dörken will be released on the Berlin Classics / EDEL
label. It will include Theodorakis' Piano Concerto Helikon and
his First Suite for Piano and Orchestra, recorded with the
Staatskapelle Weimar conducted by Kornilios Michailidis.

Last year, Danae Dörken released the duo CD Apollo &
Dionysus (Berlin Classics) with her sister Kiveli and three
albums with the French oboist Philippe Tondre on the Klarthe
label. Her landmark CD recording of Mozart's Piano Concerto
No. 21 and Mendelssohn's rarely heard Second Piano Concerto
with the Royal Northern Sinfonia under Lars Vogt received
glowing reviews. In 2012, Danae Dörken released her debut
album of works by Leoš Janáček. Her solo CD with Fantasies by
Schumann, Schubert and C.P.E. Bach (ARS Production) won the
ICMA Award. Her latest album Odyssee (Berlin Classics) was
received with critical acclaim and nominated for several
international music awards.