Main Festival 2018
Nick van Bloss – piano recital
Nick van Bloss – piano recital
Wednesday 14 March
Wednesday 14 March
pre-recital interview at 6.15pm
7.30pm
pre-recital interview at 6.15pm
7.30pm
Admission:
tickets £17
Tickets:
from Box Office, postal form or email
from Box Office, postal form or email
Details
Programme:
- Beethoven: Variations in F major Op.34
- Schumann: Kreisleriana Op.16
- interval
- Bach: French Suite No.6 in E major
- Beethoven: “Appassionata” Sonata Op.57
Nick van Bloss, one of today’s foremost pianists, began his musical training as a chorister at Westminster Abbey before entering the Royal College of Music at the age of fifteen. He studied with Yonty Solomon and Benjamin Kaplan. On hearing him play, the great Russian virtuoso, Tatiana Nikoleyeva, described van Bloss as the ‘finished article of a pianist’.
In his mid-twenties, after achieving international recognition as a pianist, Nick completely withdrew from the concert platform. For some fifteen years, he rarely touched a piano, but he did write an autobiographical memoir which led to a BBC documentary exploring his creativity, and this encouraged Nick to resume playing. His Cadogan Hall ‘comeback’ concert was uniformly reviewed as “… a triumph …” by London critics, and attracted media attention from all over the globe. Since then, Nick has released five critically acclaimed CDs and he has performed recitals and concertos in the UK, throughout Europe, the United States and Japan.
David Hart, formerly of the Birmingham Post, will interview Nick on stage at 6.15pm before his recital – free admission for ticket holders.
“Immaculately-articulated authority…thunderous grandeur” The Independent