ABERDEEN
Music Hall 01224 641122
Tuesday 25th April, 7.30pm
Artur Pizzaro plays Brahms's
Rhapsodies Op 79, Schumann's Fantasy
Op 17, Pierné's Concert
Suite and music by Fauré
and Saint-Saëns
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BIRMINGHAM
Symphony Hall 0121 780 3333 http://www.symphonyhall.co.uk
Friday 14th April, 8pm Evgeny
Kissin plays Beethoven's
Third Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir
Ashkenazy
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BRIGHTON
Brighton College 01273 704209
Wednesday 5th April, 7.45pm
Jeremy Menuhin plays the Mozart
and Beethoven E flat Quintets for
Piano and Wind with the Haffner Wind Ensemble
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BRISTOL
Colston Hall 0117 922 3683
Thursday 13th April, 7.30pm
Peter Jablonski plays Rachmaninov's
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra under Roy Goodman
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CARLISLE
Sand Centre 01228 625222
Friday 14th April, 7.30pm
Jean-Bernard Pommier plays and directs
Beethoven's First and Fifth
(Emperor) Piano Concertos with the Northern Sinfonia
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CROYDON
Fairfield Halls 020 8688 9291 http://www.croydon.gov.uk/fairfield
Saturday 8th April, 8pm Imogen Cooper plays Beethoven's
Second Piano Concerto with the London Mozart Players under Siân
Edwards
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EDINBURGH
Queen's Hall 0131 667 7776
Thursday 6th April, 7.45pm
Ivan Moravec plays Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 25 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Sir
Charles Mackerras
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GLASGOW
City Hall 0141 227 5014
Friday 7th April, 7.30pm Ivan Moravec plays Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 25 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Sir
Charles Mackerras
Thursday 27th April, 7.30pm
Artur Pizzaro plays Brahms's
Rhapsodies Op 79, Schumann's Fantasy
Op 17, Pierné's Concert
Suite and music by Fauré
and Saint-Saëns
Royal Concert Hall 0141 287 5511
http://www.grch.com
Tuesday 11th April, 7.30pm Emanuel Ax plays Haydn
(Sonata No 43), George Benjamin, Debussy (Estampes) and Schumann's
Carnival
Tuesday April 18th, 7.30pm Murray Perahia plays and directs Bach's
Keyboard Concertos BWV 1052, 1055 with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Wednesday April 26th, 7.30pm Murray Perahia plays and directs Bach's
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LEAMINGTON SPA
Royal Pump Rooms 01926 496277
HAYDN WEEKEND
Sunday 30th April, matinée
John McCabe plays four of the late masterworks
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LEEDS
Town Hall 0113 247 6962
Saturday 15th April, 7.30pm
Grigory Sokolov plays Beethoven's
First Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
under Osmo Vänskä
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LONDON
Barbican Hall 020 638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk
Monday 17th April, 7.30pm
Freddy Kempf plays Beethoven's
Fourth Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under
Daniele Gatti
Tuesday 18th April, 7.30pm
Barry Douglas plays Prokofiev's
Third Piano Concerto with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
under Yan Pascal Tortelier
Tuesday 25th April, 7.30pm
Louis Lortie plays Rachmaninov's
Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
under Marin Alsop
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Blackheath Halls 020 8463 0100
Sunday 30th April, 11.30am
Joanna MacGregor plays Shostakovich's
Piano Quintet with the Brodsky Quartet
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St John's, Smith Square 020 7222
1061 http://www.sjss.org.uk
Monday 2nd April , 12 noon-7pm
Peter Hewitt takes part in Bach 2000
Friday 14h April, 7.30pm Bernard d'Ascoli plays Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 21 with the City of London Sinfonia
under Andrea Quinn
Saturday 29h April, 7.30pm
Ian Pace plays Rachmaninov's
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Amadeus Orchestra
under Philip Mackenzie
Sunday 30th April, 7.30pm
James Andrews plays Gershwin's
Rhapsody in Blue with the Repton School Orchestra
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St Martin-in-the-Fields 020 7839
8362
Saturday 1st April, 7.30pm
Aaron Shorr plays Tchaikovsky's
Second Piano Concerto with the London Soloists Chamber
Orchestra under David Josefowitz
SBC Purcell Room 020 7960 4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
WORLD COMPETITION
Artistic Controller: Sulamita Aronovsky
Wednesday-Thursday 19th-20th April, 1pm, 3pm, 7pm Stage
One Solo Recitals
Saturday-Monday, 22nd-24th April, 1pm, 3pm,
7pm Stage Two Solo Recitals
Tuesday-Thursday, 25th-27th April, 7.30pm
Semifinals
RUSSIAN EASTER: A DAY OF RUSSIAN MUSIC
'Unknown, forgotten and Remembered'
Sunday 30th April, 11am-7.30pm including
appearances by Tanya Sarkissova, Irina Schnittke, Boris
Berman, Geoffrey Tozer and Tatiana Tchekina. Music and UK premieres by
among others Glinka,
Firsova, Raskatov, Tarnopolsky, Gubaidulina,
Denisov, Schnittke, Smirnov, Tcherepnin, Ustvolskaya, Pasternak, Lyatoshinsky and Prokofiev
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SBC Queen Elizabeth Hall 020 7960
4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
Thursday 6th April, 7.45pm Leif Ove Andsnes joins violonist Christian Tetzlaff
for sonatas by Bach, Bartók
and Dvorák plus music
by Schubert
Sunday 9th April, 7.45pm Emanuel Ax plays Haydn
(Sonata No 43), George Benjamin, Debussy (Estampes) and Schumann's
Carnival
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SBC Royal Festival Hall 020 7960
4242 http://www.sbc.org.uk
Wednesday 5th April, 7.30pm
François-Frédéric Guy plays
Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9
with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernard Haitink
Thursday 6th April, 7.30pm
Yefim Bronfman plays Beethoven's
First Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Junichi
Hirokami
Fridays 7th & 14th April, 7.30pm
Wayne Marshall plays and conducts Gershwin's Second Rhapsody with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra [two performances]
Saturday April 15th, 7.30pm Evgeny Kissin plays Beethoven's
Third Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Vladimir
Ashkenazy
BACH 2000
Tuesday April 25th, 7.30pm Murray Perahia plays and directs Bach's
First and Fourth Keyboard Concertos with the Academy of St
Martin-in-the-Fields
Friday April 28th, 7.30pm Rolf Hind gives the UK premiere of Sørenson's Piano Concerto (La notte)
with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Michael Schønwandt
WORLD COMPETITION
Artistic Controller: Sulamita Aronovsky
Satuday 29th April, 7pm Grand Final with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
under Alexander Vedernikov. In the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales,
Patron, introduced by Lady Valerie Solti
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Wigmore Hall 020 7935 2141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Saturday 1st April, 7.30pm Pascal Devoyon plays Brahms's
Piano Quintet in F minor with the Vertavo Quartet
Monday 3rd April, 1pm Cécile
Ousset in a BBC lunchtime broadcast plays Chopin's
Fourth Ballade, Fauré's
Theme and Variations and Debussy's
Images, Book I
Saturday 15th April, 7.30pm
Dénes Várjon plays
Bach's A minor Partita, Bartók, Mendelssohn
and the Schumann C
major Fantasy, Op 17
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MANCHESTER
Bridgewater Hall 0161 907 9000 http://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk
Saturday 1st April, 7.30pm Janet Simpson and Peter
Lawson play Saint-Saëns's Carnival
of the Animals with the Hallé Orchestra under Carl Davis
Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday 5th, 6th, 9th
April, 7.30pm Steven Osborne
plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No
23 with the Hallé Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard [three performances]
Friday 14th April, 7.30pm
Grigory Sokolov plays Beethoven's
First Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
under Osmo Vänskä
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MIDDLESBROUGH
Town Hall 01642 242561
Wednesday 12th April, 7.45pm
Jean-Bernard Pommier plays and directs
Beethoven's First and Fifth
(Emperor) Piano Concertos with the Northern Sinfonia
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NEWCASTLE
City Hall 0500 591996
Thursday 13th April, 7.45pm
Jean-Bernard Pommier plays and directs
Beethoven's First and Fifth
(Emperor) Piano Concertos with the Northern Sinfonia
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PERTH
City Hall 01738 621031
Wednesday 26th April, 7.30pm
Artur Pizzaro plays Brahms's
Rhapsodies Op 79, Schumann's Fantasy
Op 17, Pierné's Concert
Suite and music by Fauré
and Saint-Saëns
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READING
The Hexagon 0118 960 6060
Friday 7th April, 7.30pm Ashley Wass plays Mozart's
Piano Concerto No 9 with the London Mozart Players under Siân
Edwards
Town Hall 0118 960 6060
BEETHOVEN SERIES
Sunday 2nd April, 3pm Paul Lewis plays four sonatas - Opp 2 No
3, 26, 31 No 1, 109
Wednesday 12th April, 7.30pm
Yonty Solomon plays four sonatas
- Opp 7, 27 No 2 (Monnlight), 57 (Appassionata), 79
Sunday 30th April, 3pm Bernard Roberts plays four sonatas - Opp
10 No 3, 13 (Pathétique), 53 (Waldstein), 54
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SOUTHAMPTON
Turner Sims Concert Hall 023 8059
5151 http://www.soton.ac.uk/~turnsims
Tueday 4th April, 8pm John Lill plays Bach-Busoni,
Haydn's Sonata No 52, Beethoven's Appassionata and works by
Shostakovich and Prokofiev
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SUNDERLAND
Tom Cowey Lecture Theatre 0191 252
5396
Saturday 8th April, 7.30pm
Philip Smith plays Scarlatti,
Beethoven's final sonata, Op 111,
Rachmaninov's Corelli Variations
and the Samuel Barber Sonata
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TRURO
Hall for Cornwall 01872 262466
Thursday 6th April, 8pm Piers Lane plays late Schubert
and Beethoven's Appassionata
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WAKEFIELD
Thornes Park Arts Centre 01924 276897
Saturday 8th April, 7.30pm Tim Horton plays Brahms's
Piano Quintet in F minor with the Caractacus Quartet
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WATFORD
Colosseum 01923 445000
Thursday 13th April, 7.30pm Vladimir Ovchinnikov plays Tchaikovsky's
First Piano Concerto with the English Classical Players
under Jonathan Brett
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WORTHING
Assembly Hall 01903 82050
Sunday 9th April, 2.45pm Peter Katin plays Rachmaninov's
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Worthing Symphony
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