Date: Thursday 13 January 2011
Time: 1.05-2pm
Venue: Shaw Library, Old Building

UPDATE: Due to unforeseen circumstances the artist scheduled in for the first concert, Aleksandar Madžar, can no longer perform and will be replaced by Alexandra Dariescu. Apologies for this last minute amendment to the programme.

RAVEL              Ondine (Gaspard de la nuit)
BEETHOVEN  Sonata in E flat, Op.31 No.3
1770-1827 - Allegro
          - Scherzo. Allegretto vivace
          - Menuetto. Moderato e grazioso
          - Presto con fuoco
SCHUMANN    Abegg Variations, Op.1
CHOPIN            Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52

Selected by Young Concert Artists Trust in 2008, Alexandra Dariescu is an outstanding communicator, hugely popular with audiences.

Over the last year she has appeared as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia ViVA, Northern Chamber Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra and the International Orchestra for Freedom at St. John's Smith Square. She has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, Barbican, the City of London, Bath and Ribble Valley Festivals, and in July was resident at the Verbier Festival Academy.

Engagements during the 2010/11 season include return visits to Wigmore Hall, a recital at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham as part of the International Piano Series, performances of the Schumann Quintet with the Belcea Quartet and of the Elgar Quintet with the Elias Quartet and Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra.

Born in Romania, Alexandra graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music in 2008 with distinction and last summer completed her Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Ronan O'Hora. In 2010 she won the CUBS Bank Verbier Festival & Academy prize and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Wigmore Hall prize.

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The next lunchtime concert will be Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) Alexander Karpeyev (piano).

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