AMID the new season launches and non-stop program, Canadian Jan Lisiecki returns to Milan’s La Scala in a concert that explores the world of piano preludes. His pieces intertwine the purity of Bach, the lyricism of Chopin, the intensity of Rachmaninov, the soundscapes of Messiaen and the expressionism of Szymanowski and Górecki.
Jan Lisiecki
Lisiecki was appointed UNICEF Ambassador for Canada in 2012. In 2013, at the age of just eighteen, he became the youngest artist in history to be named Gramophone’s Young Artist of the Year, also winning the Leonard Bernstein Award in the same year.
He’ll be returning to perform with the London Philharmonic in the coming months, the Münchner Philharmoniker and the Boston, Seattle and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, and will take the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on a nineteen-concert tour dates between Germany and Austria, with programmes that will include the complete cycle of Beethoven’s piano concertos.
As Artist-in-Residence with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, he will open the Orchestra’s season and return to conduct it from the piano in the complete cycle of Beethoven’s concertos. He will take his recital programme “Preludes” – recently presented at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium – to La Scala, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, the Bozar in Brussels and the Klavier-Festival Ruhr.
by Chidozie Obasi