Tuesday 14 April 2009

Piano Recital by Peter Donohoe at St Peter's, Budleigh

Programme includes works by

Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Liszt and Chopin
Sponsored by Rensburg Sheppards Investment Management

Sonata Op.27 No 1 in E flat Beethoven
Piano Sonata in F major K322 Mozart
Vier Klavierstuck Op.119 Brahms
Années de Pèlerinage Première Année Nos 4-9 Liszt
Grand Valse Brilliante in E flat major Op. 18 Chopin
Nocturne in E flat major Op.2 No 2 Chopin
Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor Chopin

St Peter’s Music is delighted to have secured this recital by world renowned pianist Peter Donohoe. Well known as a concerto player as well as a recitalist, he is playing a lovely varied programme. If you never come to another concert this season, this is the one to come to!

Peter Donohoe was born in Manchester in 1953. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Derek Wyndham and then in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod. Since his unprecedented success as joint winner of the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, he has developed a distinguished career in Europe, the USA, the Far East and Australasia. He is acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time, for his musicianship, stylistic versatility and commanding technique. In 2006 he was invited by the Netherlands to be Ambassador for Music in the Middle East.
During the 2008/9 season Peter Donohoe’s performances include the Dresden Staatskapelle with Myung-Whun Chung, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with Gustavo Dudamel and Gurzenich Orchestra with Ludovic Morlot. He will also perform with the Czech Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and play both Brahms Concertos with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Last season Peter Donohoe’s engagements included the City of Birmingham Symphony and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras and an extensive tour to South America. He was also resident artist in a major Messiaen Festival in the Spanish city of Cuenca, which celebrated the centenary of the composer’s birth.

Peter Donohoe has recently performed with all the major London Orchestras, the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Philharmonic, Swedish Radio, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Vienna Symphony and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras. He was an annual visitor to the BBC Proms for seventeen years and has appeared at many other festivals including six consecutive visits to the Edinburgh Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron in France, and at the Ruhr and Schleswig Holstein Festivals in Germany. In the United States, his appearances have included the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. Peter Donohoe has worked with many of the worlds’ greatest conductors including Simon Rattle, Christoph Eschenbach, Neeme Jarvi, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Andrew Davis and Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Peter Donohoe is a keen chamber musician and performs frequently with the pianist Martin Roscoe. They have given performances in London and at the Edinburgh Festival and have recorded discs of Gershwin and Rachmaninov. Other musical partners have included the Maggini Quartet, with whom he has made recordings of several great British chamber works.

In 2001 Naxos released a disc of music by Finzi, the first of a major series of recordings which aims to raise the public's awareness of British piano repertoire through concert performance and recordings. Discs of music by Rawsthorne, Bliss, Darnton, Rowley, Ferguson, Gerhard, Alwyn, Pitfield and Harty have now also been released to great critical acclaim.

Peter Donohoe has made many fine recordings on EMI Records and has won awards for them including the Grand Prix International du Disque Liszt for Lizst’s Sonata in B minor and the Gramophone Concerto award for the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no. 2. His recordings of Messiaen with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble for Chandos Records and Litolff for Hyperion have also received widespread acclaim.

Peter Donohoe maintains a strong artistic link with the area in which he now lives with his wife Elaine and daughter Jessica. His close association with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra dates back to 1974. He is vice-president of the Birmingham Conservatoire and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates of Music from the Open University and the Universities of Birmingham, Central England, Warwick, East Anglia and Leicester.


Photo credit: Susie Ahlburg

Tickets are £15

From:
The Lawn Bakery, The Lawn, Budleigh Salterton
Lesleys, Stationers, High Street, Budleigh Slterton
Eagle House, The Strand, Exmouth
Tourist Information Centre, Ham Lane, Sidmouth

By telephone:
Ring 01395 442275 and request the tickets. You will be asked to forward a cheque made payable to St Peter's Music and a return S.A.E.

At the door on the night.
These are subject to availability.

Concessions: Full time students pay half the advertised price.
For more information about St Peter's Music concerts please see the website at http://www.stpetersmusic.org.uk/

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