Standing ovations for Danae Dörken playing Felix Mendelssohn’s 2nd piano concerto together with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra under William Eddins!

“EAST and WEST” has been chosen as CD of the month in Fonoforum! “Man begegnet nur selten CDs, in denen der musikalische „Flow“ sich durch das Medium des Klaviers (dieses – Zitat Emil Gilels – „nicht leicht bezähmbaren Elefanten“) so frei, so uneingeschränkt und fantasievoll beweglich entfalten kann wie hier. Die zwölf Schubert-Ländler D 790 etwa sind kaum schöner, „gesungener“ und erfüllter zu spielen.” Read the full review here: https://fonoforum.de/rezensionen/rezension/danae-doerken-east-and-west/back/10727

Danae Dörken’s album “East and West” is featured as an Audio Highlight on all Lufthansa flights starting in October. She has also put together her own “Celebrity’s Choice” playlist, that you can listen to here: https://www.lufthansa-inflightentertainment.com/de/audio/details/3466?id=37&page=1&pageSize=4&orderBy=titleasc&type=Undefined&bucketWidgetId=&previousPageId=

Danae Dörken visited the TV studio of Deutsche Welle to speak about the connecting power of music, her life and the combination of family and career and a lot more. You can watch the entire interview here: https://youtu.be/_xifCNip_Ek

Danae Dörken is on the cover of the September and October issue of the classical music magazine “Crescendo”. In her portrait, she talks about music as an expression of philosophy, the strength of diversity and her new album “EAST and WEST”.

“The start of this recital is so passionately compelling that for a moment I thought that I’d put a disc of Martha Argerich in my player, only to discover that it was indeed the new ARS Produktion release of Danae Dörken playing the first of five preludes of Manolis Kalomiris: “Molto agitato ed appassionato”. Listening on I wondered if my ‘mistake’ was all that big. Both have an emotion rich background, giving their interpretations that extra zest; Argerich from Argentina, […]