About

Gregor Dešman is a Slovenian pianist, whom music led to the Netherlands, where he currently resides. His explorations of music have left him with a broad repertoire, stretching from 18th to 21st century. His interest lies in complexity of music and searching for poeticism and aesthetics, based on honesty rather than previously set out rules.

Gregor studied in Slovenia, Italy, Croatia and the Netherlands with renowned teachers Naum Grubert, Ruben Dalibaltayan, Hinko Haas and members of Trio di Parma. He received Prešern prize and Diploma Summa cum Laude from Academy of Music in Ljubljana for outstanding musical achievements during his studies.

As a soloist with orchestras, Gregor has performed, among others with Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Ljubljana Opera and Ballet Orchestra and Valerius Orchestra, The Hague. He plays on numerous recitals in Netherlands, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Spain and Romania, among others with internationally successful musicians, such as Tibor Molnar and the Tiberius Quartet, Joachim Eijlander, Gilles Apap. He is a pianist in Piano Trio GUD, which has many concerts around Europe.

Young pianist has competed on many competitions – as a chamber musician and a soloist – he is prizewinner of Alberto Bertolini piano competition in Milan (2014), Cammeristi dell’ Alpe-Adria in Majano, Italy (2014), International Chamber music competition in Bled, Slovenia (2010) and many others.

His work has been well accepted by critics, who have for example written that: “… we have enjoyed in melodic lyricism and in reach colors of discreet accompaniment, as well as in the fresh sound of fortissimo”, Tomaž Gržeta about the performance of Fantasie op. 17 by Robert Schumann. Vesna Istenič was reporting from my performance of Piano Concerto No. 3 by Bela Bartok: “Dešman has persuaded us with his confident performance … he has beautifully formed the quality of the tone and has with his interpretation animated the music.”