Alexander Ardakov - Piano concert

Schubert, Schumann, and Bach - Busoni

St Caimin Catholic Church, Mountshannon

Sunday 7 November

5pm

€15 /€10 student-children

Mountshannon Arts is proud to welcome back the internationally acclaimed Russian pianist, Alexander Ardakov, for an evening of Schubert, Schumann, and Bach - Busoni
Born in Kuibyshev (now Samara), a Russian town in the Volga region, Alexander Ardakov worked as a soloist and a chamber musician at the Moscow State Philharmonia, and has performed extensively throughout the U.S.S.R and abroad. He has won prizes in the Kabalevsky Piano Competition in Russia and the Viotti International Music Competition in Vercelli, Italy. Since 1991, he has been living in England where, in addition to appearing as a recitalist around the world, he is Professor of Piano at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. Among his international engagements are recitals at the Bosendorfer Hall in Vienna, the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, the Gasteig Recital Hall and the Carl-Orff-Saal in Munich; and in London he has played in many venues, including the Wigmore Hall, the Southbank Centre, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and St John’s Smith Square
Alexander has made notable radio recordings for BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. His extensive discography consists of 20 different CD albums, which includes Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Alexander Gibson.

"Alexander’s audiences are never left indifferent, they are swept up in the sensitivity, intensity and passion of his playing that takes them on a journey from the most tender and intimate perceptions to the dramatic peaks of life’s greatest moments. Each meeting with him is a virtuoso performance that leaves the hearer emotionally sated yet still thirsty for more.’" Daryl Ann Hardman.