Details
Online event
London
England
Programme
Béla Bartók – Suite for Piano, Op.14
George Gershwin – Girl Crazy: 'Embraceable You'
Camille Saint-Saens – Carnival of the Animals
Astor Piazzolla – Oblivion
Nikolai Kapustin – Concert Etude no.6, Op.40
Performers
Yuki Negishi – piano
Programme Note
Celebrate a year of anniversaries of 3 great composers! 2021 is Bartok’s 140th, Saint-Saens’ 100th (from his death) and Piazzolla’s 100th anniversary year. Enveloped in between these pieces are jazz influenced classical works, including a new work by one of the top British jazz pianists active today - Robert Mitchell, winner of the Best Jazz Album Worldwide Awards, Winner of the Hamlyn Composition Award, Steinway Artist, and Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.