Carnegie Hall

“One of the fiercest dramatic talents in the field” (The New York Times), Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian’s “versatility is astounding” (The Times), with a “wild voice [that is] rich and dark” (Le Monde). Regularly engaged at the world’s leading opera houses, she has recently performed at the Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, and Teatro alla Scala. She was a founding member of the Vilnius City Opera, and has twice been awarded the Golden Stage Cross, the highest award for singers in Lithuania; in addition, she was named Best Female Lead in 2019 at the Austrian Music Theater Awards, Female Opera Singer of the Year in 2022 by Ópera XXI, and Female Singer of the Year at the Opus Klassik Awards in 2023. In 2024, she received the prestigious Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis in the Special Jury Prize category, an award that celebrates exceptional contributions to Austria’s opera and theater scene.

Highlights of Ms. Grigorian’s 2024–2025 season include a performance at the Masters of Classical Music Festival in Bucharest, Romania, alongside baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky, followed by her role debut as Elisabetta in Don Carlo at the Vienna State Opera. She then returns to one of her signature title roles, Rusalka, three times this season—first marking her debut at the Teatro di San Carlo in a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov, then at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the summer, and finally at the Bavarian State Opera, where she also performs Senta in Der fliegende Holländer in March 2025. Also this season, Ms. Grigorian makes her debut as the title role in Bellini’s Norma in a new production at the Theater an der Wien, and as Judith in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle at Philharmonie de Paris, as well as her house debut at Opéra national de Paris, where she reprises all three soprano roles in Puccini’s Il trittico. In the summer, she reprises the role of Salome in a concert performance with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Antonio Pappano.

Praised for his “brilliance and maturity” (The Guardian), Russian-Lithuanian pianist Lukas Geniušas has firmly established himself as one of the most exciting and distinctive artists of his generation. He is heard in recital at prestigious venues worldwide, including London’s Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Paris’s Salle Gaveau, Milan’s Sala Verdi, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and the Frick Collection.

Mr. Geniušas performs with international orchestras that include The Philadelphia Orchestra; Toronto, NHK, and City of Birmingham symphony orchestras; Orchestre de Paris; Royal Northern Sinfonia; and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, under the batons of such conductors as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Tugan Sokhiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Maxim Emelyanychev, Leonard Slatkin, and Kristiina Poska. A dedicated chamber musician, he has recorded and performed with violinist Aylen Pritchin, pianist Anna Geniushene, and soprano Asmik Grigorian in some of Europe’s most prestigious venues, including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, and Vienna Konzerthaus, as well as at the Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence festivals.

Mr. Geniušas recently gave the first public performances of Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Sonata in its original version, which he also recorded at the composer’s Swiss residence. This CD received five-star reviews in BBC Music and Gramophone magazines, and was awarded both the Diapason CD of the Month and CHOC de Classica Magazine. In 2024–2025, Mr. Geniušas appears in the opening series at Bechstein Hall in London; gives a series of concerts in the US, including his debut at Carnegie Hall; and returns to Asia for performances in Hiroshima, Tokyo, and Shanghai. He is also in residency at the International Piano Festival Bartolomeo Cristofori in Padua.

Born in Moscow in 1990, Mr. Geniušas graduated from the Moscow State College of Frederic Chopin in 2008, and was a silver medalist at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition and the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition. He is a featured artist of the philanthropic project Looking at the Stars, which brings classical music to prisons, hospitals, and shelters.