L'Auditori

Piano at the Auditori 2009-2010

The Auditori continues to promote concerts that combine the performance of renowned local artists with the lure of major international names and in keeping with this idea is planning a new season of Piano at the Auditori.

We also open the doors once again to young talents, such as the winner of the most recent Maria Canals International Competition, an event with which the Auditori has shown its commitment by each year hosting a performance by the winning artiste. On this occasion, young Latvian pianist Vestard Shimkus offers a programme with a number of works that are so technically demanding they are often insurmountable, including Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata alongside the attractive and well-known repertoire of Liszt’s Rapsodie Espagnole and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

Albert Guinovart, the first of the two Catalan artists we will hear, needs no introduction. The successful and multifaceted composer offers us a format that is somewhat unusual for him: a piano solo where we can enjoy his particular homage to Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, coinciding with the bicentenary of his birth.

The second Catalan pianist on the programme is Jordi Camell, known in Catalonia for his music work in combination with other artistic disciplines, such as, for example, his intensive pedagogic activity. The Penedès-born artist presents his latest album, with works by the composter Isaac Albéniz recorded to mark the centenary of his death (2009) and the 150th anniversary of his birth (2010).

The Piano at the Auditori season finishes with two big names appearing together in a production in conjunction with Ibercamera: Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire present a repertoire for two pianos, making the proposal even more irresistible and unique. A face-off of titans that will leave the public in raptures, with works by Brahms, Rachmaninov, Schubert, Ravel and Shostakovich.