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Westminster Cathedral Hall
Ambrosden Avenue
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 1QW
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Fantasia in C minor, K.475
Frédéric Chopin – Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, Op.58
Frédéric Chopin – Nocturnes, Op.62
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.30 in E major, Op.109
György Ligeti – Étude no.10
György Ligeti – Étude no.6 'Automne a Varsovie'
Leoš Janáček – Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 'From the Street'
Performers
Mishka Rushdie Momen – piano
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Programme Note
Mishka Rushdie Momen, born in London 1992, studied with Joan Havill and Imogen Cooper at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has also periodically studied with Alfred Brendel and Richard Goode. She has twice been invited by András Schiff to participate in his summer class in Gstaad as part of the Menuhin Festival.
In November 2014 Mishka was unanimously voted 1st Prize winner of the Dudley International Piano Competition and performed Bartok’s 3rd Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Seal at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. In September the same year Mishka won 2nd Prize at the Cologne International Piano Competition. She was awarded the Prix Maurice Ravel at the 2013 Académie Ravel in St. Jean-de-Luz, France where she returned to give three concerts at the Ravel Festival last Spring. Previously she was selected for the Tillett Trust Young Artist Platform Scheme 2012-2013 and other prizes include the Kenneth Loveland Gift and First Prize in the Norah Sande Award 2012, First Prize in Piano at the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition 2010, the Chopin Prize at the EU Piano competition 2009, Prague, and at the age of 13 she won 1st Prize in the Leschetizky Concerto Competition, New York.
Mishka has given solo recitals at the Barbican Hall; the Bridgewater Hall; The Venue, Leeds; St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, and in the Harrogate and Chipping Campden Festivals. Her concert experience includes most major London venues including the QEH, RFH, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, and abroad in New York, France, Germany, Prague, and Mumbai.
Westminster Cathedral Hall is near Victoria mainline and tube stations. If you are coming by car there is plenty of free parking in the surrounding roads and no congestion charge on Sundays.
