Alim Beisembayev PIANO

Wigmore Hall Prize-winner Recital

JOSEPH HAYDN  Variations in F minor HXVII/6
FRANZ SCHUBERT  Piano Sonata in C minor D958
FRANZ LISZT  Etudes d’exécution transcendante S139:

Paysage
Mazeppa
Feux follets
Ricordanza
Allegro agitato molto
Harmonies du soir
Chasse-neige

Winner of the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition, the Kazakhstan-born pianist trained at the Purcell School, moving on to the Royal Academy of Music and then the Royal College. In Leeds, as well as First Prize, he also won the medici.tv Audience Prize and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Prize for contemporary performance. His programme includes seven of Liszt’s Transcendental Studies, which raised the possibilities of piano technique to a higher level.

Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust