I've completed my Public Engagement schedule for the calendar year of 2018.

But my Engagements for the 2018-2019 Season continues - see panel below.

In the meantime - please come back soon as new short notice events are added.

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Saturday 19th May - 7:30pm St. Peters Church, The Square, Petersfield, Hants, GU32 3HS

Evening Recital with Mikhail Lezdkan and friends

MYSTICAL VISIONS

Myself (Piano)

Mikhail Lezdkan ('Cello)

Oliver Nelson (Violin)

Rob Blanken (Clarinet)

Angela Zanders (Piano)

Alexia Mankovskaya (Soprano)

Programme:-

1st half:-

Rachmaninov's Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G-minor (myself on piano; with Violin, and Cello.

Glazunov's Chant du Ménestrel, Op.71 (myself on piano; with 'Cello)

From Scriabin's 'Preludes Opus 17' Nos 3 & 6 (myself solo)

The 2nd half will feature Olivier Messiaen's wartime masterpiece: Quartet for the End of Time (1944) - with spoken words by Piers Burton-Page (Retired Radio 3 Presenter)

Admission - Free with a Retiring Collection.

How did it go ? Contact St. Peter's Church

Sunday 17th June - 7:30pm Royal Marines Museum Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 9PX

I took the Harpsichord part with The Solent Symphony Orchestra

Programme:

Handel - Concerto Grosso in Bb for Strings and Oboes

Danzi - Sinfonia Concertante for Flute and Clarinet

(Helen Walton: flute and Robert Blanken: clarinet)

Mozart - Symphony 29

See Solent Symphony Orchesta website for full details and ticket information.

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I took the Harpsichord part with The Solent Symphony Orchestra

Programme:

This is a repeat of the program performed on Sunday 7th June at the Royal Marines Museum, Southsea - of which a reviewer commented :- "This was a summer concert not to be missed ........"

Handel - Concerto Grosso in Bb for Strings and Oboes

Danzi - Sinfonia Concertante for Flute and Clarinet

(Helen Walton: flute and Robert Blanken: clarinet)

Mozart - Symphony 29

See Solent Symphony Orchesta website for full details and ticket information.

There was a retiring Collection in aid of The Rosemary Foundation :

The Rosemary Foundation is a Charity providing a ‘Hospice at Home’ service in Petersfield and the surrounding towns and villages. It is intended to help patients in the latter stage of life threatening conditions.

Saturday 6th October - St. Thomas' Anglican Cathedral, High St., Old Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2HA.

Sibelius - Finlandia

Brahms - Violin Concerto (Soloist: Catherine Lawlor)

Saint-Saëns - Symphony 3 (Organ Symphony) (David Price: organ)

I, together with one of my students George, took the 4 hand piano part in the Saint-Saëns classic !
Yes it's that one - "That'll do pig; that'll do".
Here's a snippet of the finale of the 4th movement :- https://youtu.be/EWZFkib99uo

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Sunday 25th November - 3:30pm, Friends of Sidholme Music Room, Sidholme Hotel,
Elysian Fields, Sidmouth, Devon, EX10 8UJ

A Sunday afternoon recital with Baritone Alex Poulton

And some solo piano with myself.

Also :- Hetty Christopher: Trumpet (From Colyton Grammar School)

War Embers : Europe Before and Beyond : A Treasury of Song and Solo Piano

Programme:

Free Entry : Retiring Collection in aid of

Music Room Restoration Fund

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Thursday 20th June - Solent Symphony Orchestra - St. Thomas' Anglican Cathedral, Old Portsmouth

Full programme yet to be announced ; but will include :-

Saint-Saëns - Symphony 3 (Organ Symphony) (David Price: organ)

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Saturday 6th July (More details to follow)

Provisional information : more info to follow.

I've been invited back to appear as Guest Soloist with the Brunel Sinfonia, Bristol

on 6th July 2019

to perform

Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major.

Venue likely to be Redlands Hall, Bristol.

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Saturday 13th July Venue TBA

Luminosa concert

Details TBA

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Saturday 28th September 2019 - St. Thomas' Anglican Cathedral, Old Portsmouth

I will be performing Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major

as Soloist with The Solent Symphony Orchestra

in Portsmouth.

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