Composer

Acclaimed French pianist Alexandre Kantorow makes his debut with The Friends in a program that blends profound Romanticism with visionary modernism. Hailed as a “fire-breathing virtuoso with a poetic charm,” Kantorow offers a fascinating journey through some of the piano repertoire’s most expressive works. The recital opens with Liszt’s majestic Variations on a Motive by Bach, followed by Medtner’s expansive early Sonata Op. 5. The journey continues through the lyricism of Chopin and the mysticism of Scriabin, culminating in the autumnal transcendence of Beethoven’s Op. 111.

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Art of the Piano: Alexandre Kantorow

Folly Theater

The Hong Kong–born New Yorker entered the Juilliard School’s pre-college programme aged only eight. Today, she juggles her career with vlogging, giving her several hundred thousand YouTube subscribers glimpses behind the scenes of her life as a pianist, complete with the agony and ecstasy of performing.

Tiffany Poon: Alkan, Debussy & Ravel

Southbank Centre

This programme has it all! Istanbul-born pianist Hüseyin Sermet not only plays Franz Liszt’s demanding B minor Sonata at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, but also the »Petites Fantaisies« by French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan. His ludicrously virtuosic works even frightened Liszt, the lion of the keyboard, but Sermet can confidently go the whole hog – after all, he has won several awards for his recordings of compositions by Liszt and Alkan.

Hüseyin Sermet / Piano Recital

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Judaism in Music: an exploration of the contributions of the greatest Jewish composers to the repertoire

Brinton Averil Smith, Cello & Evelyn Chen, Piano

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

The exceptionally talented protégé of Sir András Schiff makes her Koerner Hall debut with a program of works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Haydn.

German pianist Schaghajegh Nosrati has earned a formidable reputation for her stellar Bach performances. Her international breakthrough came in 2014 as an award winner at the International Bach Competition in Leipzig and particularly through her increasing musical collaboration with Sir András Schiff who praised the "astonishing clarity, purity, and maturity" as well as the musical comprehension associated with it when she plays Bach. 

Schaghajegh Nosrati, piano

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Experience the Carnegie Hall debut of Schaghajegh Nosrati, a phenomenal pianist praised by Sir András Schiff for her “astonishing clarity, purity, and maturity.” J. S. Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue makes for an exciting opening, as “Nosrati is a captivating Bachian; rhythmically infectious, supremely intelligent” (BBC Music Magazine). Beethoven’s beautiful “Pastoral” piano sonata, an uncommonly spacious work, follows. The concert’s second half begins with a spritely, fleet-fingered Haydn fantasia, while Alkan’s wonderfully varied (and woefully underperformed) piano symphony ends the performance in thrilling fashion.

Schaghajegh Nosrati, Piano

Carnegie Hall

“There is no shortage of organists who make their instruments roar...Demers made the instrument sing.”

Isabelle Demers

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Demers is known for her fearless programming and dazzling technique, matched by a deep understanding of her instrument’s immense expressive range.

Composer

Charles-Valentin Alkan

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 23, 2027

Isabelle Demers: Bach, Stravinsky & Brahms · Southbank Centre

Past events

Apr 14, 2026

Art of the Piano: Alexandre Kantorow · Folly Theater

Nov 9, 2025

Tiffany Poon: Alkan, Debussy & Ravel · Southbank Centre

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