We open this program of mostly French and Australian music with a birthday tribute to a Hungarian composer. György Kurtág turns one hundred this year, and these miniatures from Játékok (‘Games’) feel apt for a piano duo concert. Deceptively small in scale, they are large in wit and meaning. Flowers we are… (embracing sounds) asks two pianists to lean into one another, arms overlapping, sound pooling across the keyboard: an embrace made audible. Quarrelling is exactly what it sounds like: two voices jostling for position, each insisting on its own territory as the keyboard’s ‘real estate’ becomes fiercely contested. And in Hommage à Paganini, one pianist is unceremoniously banished to a second instrument altogether. We put these three pieces together deliberately, to sketch a little portrait of duo life: closeness, conflict, and the occasional need for separate rooms.

Viney-Grinberg Duo

Zelman Cowen Building (51)

Rockwood Piano Competition

Longmire Alumni Building

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Pre-College Student Recital: David Gatien, piano

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Ever since the 1970s, the artistry of pianist Kathryn Stott has won the hearts of audiences and colleagues alike. Now she’s decided to retire, and for this, her very last public concert, she comes home to the place where it all began: Liverpool. “I have enjoyed the most wonderful and fulfilling career,” she says. Tonight, Kathy plays the pieces she loves best of all, as she bids farewell to the concert stage and looks forward to a new chapter in a remarkable career.

Musical Postcards: Kathryn Stott’s Final Recital

Yoko Ono Lennon Centre

Ignas Maknickas returns to Wigmore Hall as a culmination of his UK tour. A YCAT artist and prizewinner in numerous international competitions, Ignas’s work as a soloist has led him to perform extensively with the UK and in venues around the world, including Copenhagen, Paris, Vilnius and Zagreb.

Ignas Maknickas piano

Wigmore Hall

Following a long and highly successful career as both a solo and a collaborative pianist, as well as a festival and concert series programmer, Kathryn Stott has decided to step down from public recitals from the end of this year – though many of her other creative activities will continue. Wigmore audiences will be delighted to partake in this special celebration of her exceptional artistry in her last London recital appearance.

Kathryn Stott piano

Over a long and successful career, pianist Kathryn Stott has won the hearts of audiences and colleagues alike. Now she’s decided to step down from public recitals at the end of this year – and what better way to bid farewell than with a whole concert sharing the music she loves most of all? An unforgettable evening with a much-loved artist, as she opens a new chapter in a remarkable career.

Kathryn Stott: Musical Postcards

Bute Park

We're delighted to have Robert Bily, the 2024 Alexis Gregory Vendome Prize winner, return to The New School for a recital as part of the inaugural Mannes Summer Piano Festival!

Robert Bily Piano Recital

Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall

Concert pianist Kathryn Stott has delighted Buxton International Festival audiences for years.

Kathryn Stott

St John's Church Buxton

Huijae (Esther) Lee is a South Korean pianist from Cheongju who has won numerous competitions in Korea, including the Young Soloists Competition and the Min Classical Music Competition in 2018. In 2021, she won second prize at the 22nd Korean Chamber Orchestra Competition, and she received an honorable mention in the Krannert Debut Artist Competition in 2022. In addition, Lee was named the Illinois State MTNA Young Artist Piano Performance Competition winner and also selected as an alternate for the MTNA East Central Division Competition. Most recently, she has been named the Krannert Debut Artist for 2023 and also received an honorable mention in the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.

Krannert Center Debut Artist: Esther Lee, Piano

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Join the HK Phil and conductor Nathanaël Iselin for a vibrant concert of energy and transformation, framed by John Adams’s exhilarating Short Ride in a Fast Machine and Hindemith’s brilliant Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber. Thai pianist Poom Prommachart shines in Carl Vine’s Piano Concerto no. 2, whose finale ""Cloudless Blue” is inspired by the radiance of the Australian summer sky. The programme also features O Frabjous Day by Finnish composer Ilari Kaila, Composer‑in‑Residence at HKUST.

Carl Vine

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 19, 2027

Colour and Wit · Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Past events

Mar 26, 2026

Viney-Grinberg Duo · The University of Queensland School of Music

Feb 18, 2026

Rockwood Piano Competition · Florida State University College of Music

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