Piano Salon Christophori

Guest Concert Venue



Piano Salon Christophori is one of Berlin’s most distinctive cultural venues, located in the city’s Wedding district. Set within the Uferhallen—a 1926 tram depot—it uniquely merges a historic piano restoration workshop with an intimate concert hall. Founded by neurologist and piano enthusiast Christoph Schreiber, the salon originated from his passion for restoring grand pianos.



Schreiber’s collection includes around 120 concert grand pianos from 1799 to 1987, with a focus on French instruments. Performances often feature rare and historically significant instruments, such as Érard pianos from the 19th century, a 1950 Steinway D, a 1943 August Förster Quattrocord, and Bösendorfers spanning a century.



Concerts take place almost daily and range from classical chamber works to jazz, in a relaxed, immersive atmosphere. Audiences sit close to performers on mismatched chairs amid antique piano parts, enhancing the intimate experience. With its exceptional acoustics and global artist roster, Piano Salon Christophori has earned a reputation as a cultural gem in Berlin’s dynamic music scene.

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Ivan Sendetsky is a laureate of the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Competition, where he performed Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Belgian National Orchestra under Antony Hermus in the final. The same season brought his debut recital at Wigmore Hall and the release of his debut recording on Linn Records in January 2026. Born in Saint Petersburg in 1996, he began at the piano aged three and in 2003 entered the Special Music School of the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied both piano and cello. He studied with Anatoly Nikitin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Troels Svane at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Danjulo Ishizaka at the Basel Music Academy, Josephine Knight at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2026. Among the highlights of recent seasons are his appearance with David Geringas and his chamber orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2024, his solo recital at the Vienna Musikverein, and his 2026 debut at Wigmore Hall. He has also performed at the Elbphilharmonie, Tonhalle Zürich, BOZAR Brussels, Flagey, the Chapelle Musicale Reine Élisabeth, the Helsinki Music Centre, and the Great Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia. Festival appearances include the Verbier Festival, the Schlern International Music Festival, Vivacello and the Avilés Music Festival. He has worked with conductors including Antony Hermus, Teodor Currentzis, David Geringas, Pablo Heras-Casado, Stanisław Kochanovsky, Sergey Smbatyan, Vahan Martirosyan and Christian Knapp, and has performed across Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Korea and South Africa. A laureate of the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Competition, his further prizes include First Prize at the Grunewald International Music Competition (Berlin, 2024) and the Vienna International Music Competition (2024); Fourth Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition (2023); Third Prize and the Special Prize for the best performance of a Beethoven sonata at the Schoenfeld International String Competition (Harbin, 2023); Third Prize at the International Khachaturian Competition (Yerevan, 2022); and Third Prize at the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition (Zagreb, 2016). He has been supported by the Gartow Stiftung and has received the Yuri Temirkanov Prize and the Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Kunstpreis. As a chamber musician he performs in the SenS Duo with the accordionist Vladimir Stupnikov. In 2025 the duo took First Prize at both the Manhattan International Music Competition and the Arrasate Hiria International Accordion Chamber Competition in Spain, which led to a concert tour of the country, and a tour of South Korea followed in 2026. The duo works closely with living composers — among them Heinz Holliger, Martin Lohse, Andreas Urewsky - and a work by Martin Lohse, dedicated to the SenS duo and published by Universal Edition, received its world premiere in 2025. Andreas Urewsky is currently writing two concertos for Ivan Sendetsky, both to be published by Universal Edition: a concerto for cello and accordion, and a concerto for cello, voice and chamber orchestra, whose premiere is planned for 2028. Ivan Sendetsky has previously played a cello by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and currently plays an instrument by the Cremonese maker Nicola Bergonzi, generously loaned by Florian Leonhard Fine Violins.

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Guest Artist:

Ivan Sendetsky

Cello

Laureate of the

2026 Queen Elisabeth Competition