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Edinburgh Royal Mile International Piano Series 2024 (Concert 15) - Th
St Giles Cathedral plays host to the inaugural Edinburgh Royal Mile International Piano Series. This exciting and prestigious new concert series will feature all 32 of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas throughout 2024. Featuring exceptional performances from leading UK and international pianists, these concerts will be an unrivalled opportunity to enjoy some of the world's greatest piano repertoire, as curated by our guest performers. Set in the stunning candlelit venue of St Giles Cathedral, with it's newly installed Steinway Grand Piano, this will be a musical experience to remember! St Giles is situated in the heart of the Royal Mile with many bars and restaurants nearby to complete your evening.
Featuring
Olga Stezhko (piano)
Programme
Beethoven - Sonata No. 18 (Op.31, no.3)
Debussy - Hommage à Rameau
Beethoven - Sonata No. 32 (Op.111)
About Olga Stezhko
Olga Stezhko is an award-winning concert pianist and critically acclaimed recording artist. Her striking and idiosyncratic programmes often explore hidden connections between music, science, and history across the past four centuries. Acclaimed by Classical Source in a Wigmore Hall review as 'a supremely delicate master of her instrument' who possesses 'an extraordinary presence', Olga has performed worldwide from the Barbican Hall in London to Salle Cortot in Paris to the Carnegie Hall in New York City. Recent highlights include performances in Bridgewater Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Palermo Classica Festival, the Ulverston International Music Festival and a tour in Norway where Olga premiered a new work for piano, chamber orchestra and narrator 'Blooming' by Kari Beate Tandberg, based on the book 'The Unwomanly Face of War' by exiled Belarusian Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich. Olga is the winner of many international competitions and awards including the Grand Prix at the 'Halina Czerny-Stefanska In Memoriam' Interna
Featuring
Olga Stezhko (piano)
Programme
Beethoven - Sonata No. 18 (Op.31, no.3)
Debussy - Hommage à Rameau
Beethoven - Sonata No. 32 (Op.111)
About Olga Stezhko
Olga Stezhko is an award-winning concert pianist and critically acclaimed recording artist. Her striking and idiosyncratic programmes often explore hidden connections between music, science, and history across the past four centuries. Acclaimed by Classical Source in a Wigmore Hall review as 'a supremely delicate master of her instrument' who possesses 'an extraordinary presence', Olga has performed worldwide from the Barbican Hall in London to Salle Cortot in Paris to the Carnegie Hall in New York City. Recent highlights include performances in Bridgewater Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Palermo Classica Festival, the Ulverston International Music Festival and a tour in Norway where Olga premiered a new work for piano, chamber orchestra and narrator 'Blooming' by Kari Beate Tandberg, based on the book 'The Unwomanly Face of War' by exiled Belarusian Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich. Olga is the winner of many international competitions and awards including the Grand Prix at the 'Halina Czerny-Stefanska In Memoriam' Interna
Monday 4 Nov 24
St Giles Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1RE
Mon 04 Nov 2024, 06:30PM - 07:30PM£15, £19, £25, £35
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