Part of Chetham’s International Piano Summer School 2025.
Between Wednesday 13 – Saturday 23 August, Chetham’s International Piano Summer School brings world class and legendary musicians to a vibrant, supportive community in central Manchester. Alongside lectures, open lessons and opportunities to develop new skills, you can discover a daily programme of recitals from world-class performers.
Seating for these events will be unallocated. If you have any access requirements, please do let us know at boxoffice@stollerhall.com or on 0333 130 0967 (lines open Tuesday – Thursday 1.30pm – 4pm). You can find out more about access in our building here. Our venue will be open half an hour before each public performance and will close in between performances.
Day Two
A Young Artists Recital: Luís Ribeiro and Susanna Braun, 1.45pm – 2.30pm
Tickets: £5.50. FTE/U18 FREE
The first in the series of lunchtime recitals for 2025. We are delighted welcome two young pianists who are currently studying at the RNCM.
PROGRAMME
Susanna Braun
SCARLATTI Sonata in D K29
LIZST Rapsodie Hongroise XIX S244/19
SCRIABIN Sonata No.4 in F# Op.30
Luís Ribeiro
TBC
Lecture – The Taubman Approach with Nina Tichman, 5.15pm – 6pm
Tickets £11.50. FTE/U18 £5.50
Winner of important international competitions – Busoni, Mendelssohn, Casagrande – Nina Tichman was Professor of Piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne from 1993-2024. Nina’s teachers included Ilona Kabos, Hans Leygraf, Alfons Kontarsky, Wilhelm Kempff and also Dorothy Taubman who founded the Taubman Institute of Piano and developed the Taubman approach to playing. Today Nina will talk about the Taubman Approach and how it can be incorporated into both your own playing and into teaching.
A Recital with Murray McLachlan: Fantasy and Fantasia, 7pm
Tickets: £22.50. FTE/U18 £5.50
“Murray McLachlan is a pianist with a virtuoso technique and a sure sense of line.” (BBC Music Magazine
Murray McLachlan, founder and artistic director of the summer school, returns to a programme from his student years that presents cornerstone works by Bach and Chopin, in contrast to three operatic commentaries on ‘Carmen’, ‘Petere Grimes’ and ‘Doktor Faust’.
PROGRAMME
JS BACH Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue BWV 903
CHOPIN Fantasy in F minor op. 49
BUSONI Chamber Fantasy on Bizet’s Carmen
STEVENSON Peter Grimes Fantasia
STEVENSON Faust Fantasy
A Recital with Leon McCawley, 8.30pm
Tickets: £22.50. FTE/U18 £5.50
“One of today’s most impeccably musical pianists.” International Piano
Praised for his unfailingly communicative playing, British pianist Leon McCawley has been delighting audiences worldwide since winning, in 1993, First Prize in the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna and Second Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition.
PROGRAMME
BEETHOVEN Andante Favori WoO 57
BEETHOVEN Sonata in C major Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’
1 Allegro con brio
2 Introduzione: Adagio molto
3 Rondo: Allegretto moderato
FRANCK Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in B minor FWV21
