Wednesday 25th November at 7.30pm

Andrew Ball

Solo Piano

 

Andrew Ball studied piano with Kendall Taylor at the Royal College of Music, as well as taking music at The Queen's College, Oxford. A busy and esteemed performing career has always demonstrated a wideranging and innovative approach to repertoire. Highlights have included Messiaen at the Henry Wood Proms, the complete sonatas of Tippett (which he studied with the composer) and the British première of Sofia Gubaidulina's Piano Sonata at the Bath Festival. More recently he performed in Stravinsky's Les Noces at the Barbican under Valery Gergiev, and recorded 16 newly commissioned songs by contemporary British composers for NMC. He was Head of Keyboard at the RCM from 1999-2005 and was made a Fellow of the College in 2005. Continuing his busy teaching schedule, he also gives masterclasses around the world, most recently in Spain, Germany, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has been on many competition juries, both in the UK and, recently, in Dresden, Amsterdam and New Orleans.

 

Programme to include:

A diverse and colourful programme ranging from Beethoven's 'Moonlight' Sonata via French and Spanish works to the exciting and spectacular 'Winnsboro' Cotton-Mill Blues' by the American Frederic Rzewski'

 

“The most brilliantly put together recital was given by the pianist Andrew Ball...Ball's virtuosity and enthusiasm amounted to a festival in itself” Financial Times

 

“Ball's amazing virtuosity is well known” The Wire “…an inspired performance (the first in Britain) of Gubaidulina's Piano Sonata” The Guardian

 

Tickets £10.00 (£6.00)

Afternoon Workshop 2.30 - 4.00pm

Admission free

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