Upcoming Concerts
| 06/04/2019 |
Charleston Farmhouse, Sussex
This is the launch of a new series which I have helped devise for this spectacular new Barn at Charleston, home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and the Bloomsbury Group. The series will comprise music and incorporate spoken word, often extracts from the immense library collection which is housed in the Farnhouse |
The programme will comprise music by Debussy, Poulenc and Satie, together with the Moonlight Sonata Beethoven. Extracts for the reading will be by Proust and Virginia Woolf, amongst others. | I am delighted to launch the series with my solo piano contribution, and with a reader. The reader in tonight's performance I am delighted to announce will be Eve Best. We are indeed very honoured and lucky!! |
This is a brand new series of Music and Word and Charleston, and do look out for the next concert which is planned in September. X |
| 17/04/2019 |
Aureus Academy Conservatory Singapore
The launch of a new Conservatory of Music in Singapore. The initial venture started out nearly 6 years ago with brothers Lawrence and Julius Sarabi as a centre for children to learn music and their instruments outside of schooling hours. This has blossomed into nearly 30 branches and 7000 students and starting a Conservatory for students at a higher level was the next obvious move. I will be visiting 3 times each year, each visit for about 2-3 weeks.
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As Head of the keyboard section, I will be overseeing the teaching of the piano students in the new Conservatory as well as conducting Masterclasses, lectures and lecture recitals for all the students. | Head of Keyboard in the new Aureus Conservatory. | I am deeply flattered and honoured to be part of this remarkable enterprise, and the new launch of the Aureus Conservatory. Long may it continue. X |
| 06/05/2019 |
Villa Medici Giulini
The Villa Medici Giulini in Briosco, near Como in Italy houses one of largest and finest collection of early keyboards in the world. The Villa, once a glamorous hunting lodge of the Medici Family, is set amongst beautiful gardens and there is now a newly built theatre where concerts and musical talks are held. Housing probably some 50 keyboards, the pianos sit amongst all the rooms in the house.There is also accommodation set apart from the main building.
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Programme 1 will explore the sound world of Mozart and his contemporaries, something very different to the piano sound we are used to today. Programme 2 will explore Beethoven, Schubert and see the development of the piano, which Beethoven almost single handedly started to demand change from the fragile instruments; bigger sounds, larger key compass. Programme 3 With the pianos of the 1860's and beyond, things have not much changed with the piano, but the older instruments still have a bell-like sonority and clarity not always evident in modern pianos. This programme will feature pianos by Erard and Pleyel, favourite makers of Chopin and Liszt. There will also be an evening excursion into Milan on one of the evenings. |
I will be introducing the programmes myself and Paul Boucher will be giving talks throughout the stay about the instruments and provide a more historical picture of the development of the piano. |
This is a rare opportunity to visit this great collection and house which is not opened to the General Public, and to experience the kind of ambience which was very much what the composers of the time also heard and experienced. X |
| 17/05/2019 |
Paphos in Cyprus
An evening of chamber music with Guy Johnston, cello, and myself in a Festival in Paphos, Cyprus. |
The programme will comprise Mendelssohn D major Cello and Piano sonata and a work by his contemporary Sterndale Bennett, alongside works by Schumann and Chopin. | Guy Johnston, cello and myself. | Always a huge pleasure to play chamber music with Guy and this wonderful programme will guarantee us both lots of musical fun! X |
| 28/05/2019 |
Venue to be confirmed.
Jonathan Dove, the Festival Director, has devised a theme this year of Fire and Water and the First Landing on the Moon… and I have put together a programme accordingly! |
Beethoven Moonlight Sonata Op 27 no2 Liszt Les Jeux d'Eau à la Villa d'Este Jonathan Dove Catching Fire (Written in celebration of my 60th Birthday in 2016) Debussy Images Bk 1 Debussy Suite Bergamasque |
Piano solo | A very interesting mix and combination of pieces, and wonderful for me to be able to perform Jonathan Dove's Catching Fire again. Just as well there is also some water pieces nearby!! X |
| 12/06/2019 |
St Giles House Dorset
As part of the Chamber Music series brought to you by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, I am delighted and honoured to open this year’s series of concerts at St Giles.
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Beethoven Sonata Op 111 Debussy Images Bk 2 Brett Dean Homage à Brahms Brahms 4 Intermezzi Op 119 |
Piano solo | A programme of contrasts. The Brett Dean pieces were written as a homage to the Brahms Op 119. They are 3 short but very different pieces, and will interleaf with the Brahms pieces, as they were intended to by Dean. X |
| 20/06/2019 |
The Benslow Trust
As a Patron of the Benslow Trust I am delighted to be involved in today’s Masterclasses open to all amateur Pianists and students. |
The Piano Masterclasses will be conducted throughout the day at the Benslow Trust, Benslow Lane, Hitchin SG4 9RB. | I myself will be conducting the Classes throughout the day. | This is a lovely opportunity for amateur musician pianists to come together and listen to others and to maybe even learn a few quick 'tricks of the trade' as it were! X |
| 29/06/2019 |
St Leonard's Church, Seaford
As Patron of the Seaford Music Society in East Sussex, I am delighted to present this year’s Gala Concert with my dear friends Ruth Rogers and Sebastian Comberti.
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Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat Op 11 2 Schubert Impromptus for Piano Solo Op 90 nos 3 and 4 Schubert Notturno in E flat for Piano Trio Debussy 2 pieces from Images Book 1 Reflets dans l'Eau and Movement Ravel Sonata for Violin and Piano Sally Beamish/Debussy Arrangement for Piano Trio of La Mer |
Ruth Rogers, violin Sebastian Comberti, cello and myself. |
This programme includes Sally Beamish's re-working of Debussy's La Mer which we performed last year and couldn't wait to play it together again!! X |
| 30/06/2019 |
Farrington Music School, Motcome Park, Shaftesbury Dorset SP7 9QA
This is a repeat concert from the previous day in Seaford in Sussex. |
The programme is the same as the previous day in the Seaford Concert. | Ruth Rogers, Violin Sebastian Comberti, Cello and myself. |
This is a lovely series which Ruth Rogers has devised in the heart of the Dorset countryside! X |