To «Divertimenti in Corfu» υπερήφανα παρουσιάζει˙

Τον διεθνούς φήμης πιανίστα Piers Lane σε ένα ρεσιτάλ αφιέρωμα στον Chopin, την Παρασκευή 7 Απριλίου, στις 21:00, στην Ιόνιο Ακαδημία.

 

O βιρτουόζος πιανίστας αφήνει συχνά την βάση του, το Λονδίνο, για να παρουσιάσει το πρόγραμμά του σε διάφορες χώρες ανά τον κόσμο.

Έχει εμφανιστεί 5 φορές ως σολίστ στα London Prom Concerts του BBC, στη σκηνή του Carnegie  Hall της Νέας Υόρκης, καθώς και σε πολλές άλλες σημαντικές σκηνές της Βόρειας Αμερικής, ενώ δεν υπάρχει σχεδόν καμία ευρωπαϊκή χώρα που να μην έχει επισκεφτεί για να παίξει.  Επίσης, έχει εμφανιστεί στην Κίνα, την Ιαπωνία, το Χονγκ Κονγκ, και άλλες χώρες της Ασίας, καθώς και την Αυστραλία όπου μεγάλωσε.

O Piers Lane λαμβάνει συνεχώς προσκλήσεις για να εμφανιστεί ως σολίστ σε όλο τον κόσμο, και έχει πάρει μέρος σε έναν μεγάλο αριθμό κονσέρτων και έργων σε συνεργασία με τις καλύτερες ορχήστρες του κόσμου. Επίσης, έχει ηχογραφήσει πάνω από 60 cd.

 

Θα ακουστούν:

Impromptu No.1 in A flat major Op. 29 |  Fantasie in F minor Op. 49

Etude in E major, Op. 10 No. 3 | Ballade No. 3 in Ab major Op.47

Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54 | Polonaise Op. 44 |Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 No.4  

2 Nocturnes, Op. 62 | Barcarolle in Fsharp major, Op. 60.

 

Προπώληση εισιτηρίων Corfuland Shop

 

*Υπό την αιγίδα του Δήμου Κέρκυρας

----

 

Press Release

 

 

Divertimenti in Corfu proudly presents

All Chopin Concert by the world famous Australian Pianist

Piers Lane

Ionian Academy | Friday 7th April  21.00

 

This concert is under the Auspices of the Municipality of Corfu. The two Patrons are Kostas Nikolouzos - Mayor of Corfu and Chrysanthos Sarlis - Co founder

 

Piers Lane AO came to Corfu over 20 years ago to play a concert for the Guilford Youth Centre. He stayed with local residents and met many people and absolutely fell in love with this wonderful island. He told me it has always been his dream to return when we were chatting last year. A week or so later he offered to come for an all Chopin concert at a greatly reduced fee and for a holiday in wonderful places. He will be staying in the beautiful Casa Lucia for two nights then to the beautifully situated Corfu Palace Hotel for the rest of the week and we shall visit some of his old favorites and introduce him to gorgeous new places also local tavernas and cafes.  He will play the same programme for the famous Wigmore Hall in London just two weeks later.

 

He has just returned from an extensive tour of the west coast of the USA and Arizona with many highly successful major concerts and then to Melbourne for two concerts of the Last Night of the Proms with the John Ireland concerto and the Victorian Symphony Orchestra. He is based in London and plays all over the world. Five times soloist in the London Prom Concerts, many times in New York at Carnegie  Hall and all the major centres in North America, almost all the countries in Europe as well as Japan, China, Hong Kong and more in Asia and he is in Australia several times a year. He is in great demand as a soloist with a huge repertoire of concertos and plays with the most famous Orchestras. His recitals (as the one we shall hear) are always booked out well in advance and he plays a large number of chamber music concerts to great critical acclaim. He also has recorded over 60 cds! It is hard to describe this  amazing musician but these quotes from The Times in London gives an idea.

 

“With his reputation for playing with ‘conviction, commitment, poeticism and music-serving virtuosity’, he elicits a miraculous range of colours and atmospheres from the piano"

This describes a concert  where he plays the programme we are to hear which is below.

"Technical bravura, poetic reflection and heart-warming lyricism are just some of the many qualities present in Piers Lane’s all Chopin programme, a feast of pianism comprising such exquisite miniatures as the two Op 62 Nocturnes and the spectacular Barcarolle in F sharp major, among the composer’s final and finest compositions”.

 

The Programme for Corfu

Impromptu No.1 in A flat major Op. 29 |  Fantasie in F minor Op. 49

Etude in E major, Op. 10 No. 3 | Ballade No. 3 in Ab major Op.47

Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54 | Polonaise Op. 44 |Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 No.4  

2 Nocturnes, Op. 62 | Barcarolle in Fsharp major, Op. 60.

 

TICKETS: online from cmhf@otenet.gr and Corfuland Shop, Corfu Town, 2 Albert Cohen st, (opposite Hondos Centre)

Reserved seats on the left side  in reserved rows of 9 seats. Each ticket numbered. Wine served at interval. €25. 

Seats on the right side of the hall and in the gallery €15.   Students  €10

 

*The Steinway piano Piers Lane is playing has just been completely restored by the excellent and highly qualified piano technician Anastasios Bratos who spent some years studying in the USA. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of people in Corfu especially the Corfu Arts Foundation.

*I am so proud to have this wonderful person and musician, a fellow Australian, as a good friend and I do hope you will  have an amazing musical experience at this concert, Vivienne Pittendrigh. Organizer.

Με την υποστήριξη του