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Nina Gurol
As a pianist, Nina Gurol creates artistic spaces that both challenge and move her audience: with uncompromising dedication, she ventures down paths beyond the familiar and, in her concert programs, brings together elements that at first glance appear separate. To this end, she explores the repertoire—spanning classical and contemporary music, complex intellect, and pianistic sensitivity—in diverse ways, combining comforting simplicity with relentless rigor, and life with transience. Whether on international stages, at innovative festivals, or in her academic work, Nina Gurol, as an artist, does not seek the familiar but rather the as yet unexplored, and finds her home where music stirs the soul, lingers, and raises unanswered questions—in the works of Galina Ustvolskaya and York Höller just as much as in those of Franz Schubert.“It is a great joy to watch a refined, highly accomplished musician discover her spontaneity and unique creativity. The Concerto21 Foundation has helped her embrace improvisation and, in doing so, find her very own voice.” — Sonia Simmenauer