Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/Sep/2016
Genre - Violin and piano recitals
In a programme of Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d’un lieu cher Op. 42; J. S. Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV.1004; Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108; Paganini: La Campanella and Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28
In association with Balassi Institute
One of the most important artists of his generation in Hungary, Kristóf Baráti performs regularly in his native country with all the major Hungarian orchestras, in recital and chamber music, and in 2014 he was awarded Hungary’s highest cultural award, the Kossuth Prize, following in the footsteps of András Schiff, György Ligeti and Iván Fischer amongst others.
Across the rest of the world Barati is gaining recognition for the extraordinary quality of his musicianship. He enjoys a particularly close relationship with Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra: earlier this year he appeared as soloist in Russia alongside Kavakos, Trifonov and others in the Prokofiev celebrations, this summer he returns to St Petersburg for performances with Gergiev of the Stravinsky and Beethoven Concerti and in September he is Gergiev’s violin soloist in the Prokofiev concerti in London, again as part of the Prokofiev 125th birthday celebrations.
http://kristofbarati.com/about/
Not yet thirty-five, acclaimed pianist Marouan Benabdallah is indisputably the leading representative of his native Morocco on the international concert stage, having recently performed debut recitals at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Aspen Music Festival, Teatro Colon with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, the Castleton Festival Orchestra under the baton of Lorin Maazel.
With a musical heritage deeply rooted in the Hungarian tradition, Mr. Benabdallah received his formal training at the Bela Bartok Conservatory and the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, and in 2008, was presented with the Medal of the Hungarian Parliament for his achievement in music – an honor he shares with such artists as Placido Domingo, José Cura and others.