French-Cypriot pianist and composer Cyprien Katsaris plays piano transcriptions by Karol A. Penson.

When Cyprien Katsaris came across Karol A. Penson’s magnificent transcriptions he was immediately taken by the refinement that he brought to these reworkings for the piano. This recording features a number of the most celebrated composers such as Bach, Schubert and Brahms, but also unknown masters like the Pole Karlowicz, the Russian Schaporin and the Paraguayan Mangore. A genuine discovery thanks to a transcriber who is also a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Paris VI and winner of the Franco- German Alexander von Humboldt Prize.

Cyprien Katsaris is “Artist of UNESCO for Peace” (1997), “Commandeur de l’Ordre de Merite du Grand-Duche de Luxembourg” (2009) and “Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters” (France 2000). He also received the “Medaille Vermeil de la Ville de Paris” (2001) and the “Nemitsas Prize” (Cyprus, 2011). He is a member of ADAP, the Association of Artists for Peace, and Honorary President of “Lisztomanias International”.