Piano Series

American-Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan, a member of the Leeds International Piano Competition jury in 2021, returns to Leeds with an intriguing combination of JS Bach, Franz Schubert, and Sergei Rachmaninov. The concert includes Inon’s own piano arrangement of Rachmaninov’s explosive Symphonic Dances.

Piano Series

Two giants of keyboard composition, Franz Liszt and Ludwig van Beethoven, feature in Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva’s recital which closes with Beethoven’s mighty Hammerklavier Sonata.

Piano Series

We’re thrilled to welcome back Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu to close the series. Alexandra has forged an exciting career over the last few years and will present a fascinating programme featuring works by two French female composers, Camille Pépin and Lili Boulanger.

Shostakovich called his Fifth Symphony “a Soviet artist’s response to just criticism”, but every note tells a much darker truth. From its savage opening to final, blazing chords, this is music that really is a matter of life and death. It’ll make an explosive finish to a concert that begins with Roussel’s whirlwind Bacchus and Ariane (fast becoming a Domingo Hindoyan signature following the release of his critically-acclaimed first album in 2022) and stars powerhouse pianist – and the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition winner – Alim Beisembayev, in a gorgeous new concerto by the Jamaican-born British composer Eleanor Alberga.