Posts tagged PH Grand Piano
Tom Dixon x PH Pianos

PH Pianos has commenced a collaboration with the world-renowned design and interior company, Tom Dixon Design Research Studio. 

CEO of PH Pianos, Søren Vincents Svendsen states in his announcement, “We are extremely proud and honored to have been asked by Tom Dixon to be involved in a project in London. Our PH Grand Piano is the most iconic design piano on the market, and it is now part of the exquisite interior setting of the most spectacular penthouse apartment on Canary Wharf in London.”

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If You've Seen a PH Piano, You Won't Forget It

So opens the article in Pianist Magazine by writer Warwick Thompson, about PH Pianos and its founder and CEO, Søren Vincents Svendsen. Thompson’s informative and engaging text shares the background and the story behind our instruments, designed by Poul Henningsen. From our CEO’s first encounter with the PH Pianos, to securing the exclusive rights from the Henningsen family estate to produce the instrument, to the developments of today, Thompson guides the reader through each important aspect of the company.

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Carlos Cipa X PH Pianos

In early fall of 2021, we invited Carlos Cipa, the Munich-based composer and pianist, to visit the PH Pianos showroom in the heart of Copenhagen, to create some new music.

With over 500,000 monthly listens on each of the major streaming platforms, Cipa is a well-known pianist/composer who plays masterworks and creates and performs his own interesting and cinematic compositions.

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Happy 100th Birthday, Astor Piazzolla!

At PH Pianos, we are inspired by those who dare to do things differently. Much like the designer behind our pianos- Danish design icon Poul Henningsen- the Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla became a celebrated emblem of change in his field. Piazzolla, a 20th-century bandoneon player with jazz in his blood and an international star-studded education, was one of the key figures to revolutionize the wildly popular genre of Tango.

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True Muse, True Music

“As a writer and performer of solo piano music, the piano itself is the only tool I use in recording and performance to tell a musical story and convey all of the required emotional nuances. The piano that I play is more than just an instrument: I use the piano how an opera singer uses their voice. The piano becomes an extension of my body: together, the piano and I are ‘as one’.”

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PH Stories: The PH Grand Piano at a Private Residence, California

Inside of Aalto’s original Villa Mairea there is a space known as the ‘Piano Room’ where Alvar Aalto’s wife Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto (herself an architect and designer) is said to have enjoyed playing the piano in the home of Aalto’s friends and clients Harry and Maire Gullicksen for whom Villa Mairea was created. The piano inside of Villa Mairea is an original Poul Henningsen designed PH Grand Piano produced in 1930s Denmark.

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The PH Piano at the Hotel Ambassadori, Tbilisi

As a supplier of customised fine musical instruments, PH Pianos is always delighted to visit clients following the delivery of their PH Grand Piano as part of the exemplary levels of service provided to PH Grand Piano owners all over the world. In February, PH Pianos Chief Executive Søren Vincents Svendsen was delighted to visit the Hotel Ambassadori in Tbilisi to meet the hotel owners and management team, along with the PH Grand Piano that is now proudly displayed inside the lobby.

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The PH Grand Piano at a Private Residence, Copenhagen

When Besmir Ismaili recently purchased a house in Copenhagen for his parents, sister and brothers, it represented a symbol of his achievement as a Music Producer. Besmir’s love and talent for music is a family trait, since his Father is a successful Albanian folk musician who moved with his family to Denmark during the 1990s. Besmir wanted to buy a gift to be appreciated for his Father: his choice was the Poul Henningsen designed PH Grand Piano, which sits in pride of place in the modernist family home, itself a futuristic display of minimalism created from structural glass. PH Pianos were delighted to create a customised PH Grand Piano dedicated to Besmir’s Father that would fit perfectly in the new family home.

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David Syre; Piano Heaven

In addition to being a prolific artist, who has created a large body of work in the last decade working from his 100 year old farm, David Syre also finds a connection with music. In 2018 David visited the PH Pianos flagship showroom on Bredgade in Copenhagen, where he discovered the Poul Henningsen designed PH Grand Piano. Immediately smitten, David became the owner of a custom built PH Grand Piano which has since been placed in his Washington studio. David has described how his PH Grand Piano has added to the “Personality” of his farm and considers it simply to be “Piano Heaven.”

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Amanda Palmer, the Open Piano For Refugees Event and The PH Grand Piano

At the end of October 2019 PH Pianos were delighted to loan a PH Grand Piano to the Open Piano for Refugees Event that took place at the Sceneindgangen Dance Studio in Copenhagen. The purpose of this event was to raise money for the DoRoMi social music school in Vienna. The DoRoMi social music institute provides music lessons for refugees and socially disadvantaged people.

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The PH Grand Piano: Poul Henningsen’s Danish Design Classic, Today Built by Blüthner in Germany

Poul Henningsen (PH) first revealed his design for the PH Grand Piano in 1930. The PH Grand Piano represents an evolution in piano design that is still as ground-breaking today as it was in the 1930s. Today, the enduring popularity of the PH Grand Piano both as a piece of art and as a functional designer piano of the finest quality means that the PH Grand Piano has become as Danish design classic that can also be found in the Designmuseum Danmark.

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The PH Grand Piano at The Scandinavian

Henning Larsen Architects envisioned the award-winning design for the clubhouse at The Scandinavian. The clubhouse offers stunning views over both golf courses and houses an extensive collection of contemporary art, including works by Ai Weiwei, Yoshitomo Nara, Ugo Rondinone, Franz West and Sterling Ruby.

The clubhouse at The Scandinavian is also home to another piece of fine art: a Poul Henningsen designed PH Grand Piano.

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The PH Grand Piano - An Exclusive Blüthner Grand Piano and Scandinavian Design Classic

When Poul Henningsen created the PH Grand Piano in 1930, he challenged the concept of how a grand piano should appear. Poul Henningsen observed that the wooden cases of traditional grand pianos restricted the sound and vision of the piano as an instrument and that traditional wooden cased grand pianos were effectively instruments being played ‘inside a box’

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