This week the renowned Swiss pianist Cédric Pescia brings the Bach element of Music for Galway’s 41st concert season to an end.
At the Emily Anderson Concert Hall in the University of Galway he presents a programme of German classics with Bach at its centre.
The concert, which was originally supposed to take place this week, has been postponed to May 23 due to injury. All tickets already purchased can be held onto for the later date, and will be reissued in May, or reimbursed.
Lausanne born Cédric Pescia, winner of the famous “Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition”, is one of today’s most exciting pianists thanks to his refined sense of sound for music from Baroque to Contemporary and his particularly elaborate programmes.
Cédric, born in Lausanne on the shores of Lake Geneva, is a world traveling pianist of dual French and Swiss nationality
He studied with Christian Favre, Dominique Merlet and Klaus Hellwig; later on with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Daniel Barenboim, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Leon Fleisher, Christian Zacharias, and with the Alban Berg Quartet.
Concert tours have taken him throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America, where he has performed at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Hamburg Laieszhalle, the Mozarteum Salzburg, Carnegie Hall New York, Paris Philharmonie, and many more
A master of soft tones, Cédric amazes with his clear and inspired touch, his joy of playing, and his musical charisma.
For him, music is always language and movement at the same time: what he plays must speak and sing, as well as flow and dance.
Audiences will have a chance to experience this as Cédric performs a beautiful programme for solo piano that includes classics such as Schumann’s popular Waldszenen (Forest Scenes).
This will be accompanied by a suite of nine short pieces, and the penultimate of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, No. 31. These pieces will be interspersed with French Suites by Bach.
Music for Galway acknowledges the funding from the Arts Council and Galway City Council and the generous support from the Embassy of Switzerland in Ireland.
Tickets are available on the website www.musicforgalway.ie, or by phone 091 705962 and at the door on the night and cost €20/€18.
The price for full time students and school going children is €6 and MfG Friends can avail of the friends’ rate of €16.
