Mozart, Schubert And Liszt To Open International Piano Festival

A Costa Blanca non-profit euphony association, Ars Alta Cultural, is bringing world-class soft euphony to Denia this autumn. Founded 3 years ago, nan organisation runs 2 main projects: nan Gonzalo Soriano International Piano Competition successful Alicante each April and an International Piano Festival successful Denia, which will characteristic 5 concerts betwixt October and December.

Supported by nan Rotary Club and Denia’s Town Hall, nan show will beryllium partially financed by nan municipality hallway for nan first clip this year. All concerts will return spot astatine nan Teatro Auditori successful Denia, pinch tickets priced astatine €20 aliases €80 for a play walk to each 5 performances. Tickets are disposable online astatine www.notikumi.com aliases connected nan door. Full specifications tin beryllium recovered connected www.arsaltacultural.com

The show opens connected Thursday October 2 pinch a four-hands recital by Nicolas Bringuier, a semi-finalist astatine nan Chopin Competition successful Warsaw, and Olga Monakh from Germany. Their programme, Along nan Danube, includes Mozart’s Sonata successful D awesome KV381, Schubert’s Fantasy successful F insignificant D940, Liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhapsody, Brahms’s Hungarian Dances, Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances and Smetana’s symphonic poem The Moldau.

Four-hands recital by Nicolas Bringuier and Olga Monakh

The duo, who met successful 2002 while studying nether Klaus Hellwig astatine nan University of nan Arts successful Berlin, person performed extensively together ever since. They played astatine a reception hosted by nan President of Germany successful 2005 and person since toured internationally, including a performance bid crossed China.

The 2nd concert, connected Thursday October 30, will characteristic Portuguese pianist Vasco Dantas successful a recital titled From Bach to Queen. Praised by Gramophone for his “unusual programming and captivating artistry”, Dantas will guideline nan assemblage done 300 years of soft music. The programme ranges from Bach’s Art of Fugue and Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to useful by Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Satie and Debussy, earlier concluding pinch Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet: Montagues and Capulets and Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now.

Born successful Porto successful 1992, Dantas studied astatine London’s Royal College of Music earlier completing a doctorate successful Münster. He has since performed successful prestigious performance halls connected 5 continents, winning captious acclaim worldwide.