Coming up soon …

I’m at home practising … although it’s getting very warm outdoors. This is why:

May 3^rd: Loch Shiel Festival, Scotland
Albéniz: Iberia

5^th: Loch Shiel Festival
Messiaen: Le Courlis cendré
Sorabji: Le Jardin parfumé

10^th: University of Hertfordshire MayFest [lunchtime]
Smith: Al contrario
Alkan: Etude op.39 no.8

17^th: Kiev, Masterklass Cultural Centre, Lavrska 16a
Alkan: Concerto op.39 nos.8—10
Sorabji: Le Jardin parfumé

24^th: Oxford Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Alkan: Concerto op.39 nos.8—10
Sorabji: Le Jardin parfumé
Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica

26t^h: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam College, 13.00
White: Sonatina no.8 [extracts]
Alkan: Concerto op.39 nos.8—10

28^th: London UCL, Haldane Room, 19.00, Institute of Jewish Studies                      
Alkan: Preludes [selection]
Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica
Alkan: Concerto op.39 nos.8—10

30^th: New North London Synagogue, 19.30
Alkan: Preludes [selection]
Alkan: Three Hebrew Songs
Alkan: Concerto op.39 nos.8—10

1 June: Schott Spring Piano Series, Schott Music, London
Aperghis: A Tombeau ouvert
Barrett: Lost
Messiaen: Le Courlis cendré
Radulescu: Sonata no.2
Sorabji: Le Jardin parfumé
Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica

Many of these concerts are supported by the UK Alkan Society — it’s the bicentenary of his birth — and I’m very grateful for this.