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I’m at home practising … although it’s getting very warm outdoors. This is why: May 3rd: Loch Shiel Festival, Scotland Albéniz: Iberia 5th: Loch Shiel Festival Messiaen: Le Courlis cendré Sorabji: Le Jardin parfumé 10th: University of Hertfordshire MayFest [lunchtime] Smith: Al contrario Alkan: Etude op.39 no.8 17th: Kiev, Masterklass Cultural Centre, Lavrska 16a Alkan: […]


Next week is very exciting as I will play in Norway for the first time, thanks to the excellent Borealis Festival and its artistic director Alwynne Pritchard. I’ll even be playing in the Troldsalen, the concert hall built to complement the Grieg Museum in his house Troldhaugen. The programme combines late-Romantic, early modern and contemporary musings […]


New CD release – Kornauth piano music on Toccata Classics My latest CD is the first volume of a project to record the piano works of Egon Kornauth. A box of them arrived this morning! Clicking on the link will take you to Toccata Classics’ website where you can listen to samples. It was recorded, […]


Soundcloud

16Feb13

I’ve recently put quite few live recordings on Soundcloud … If you fancy a listen, go to https://soundcloud.com/isokani and have a look: there’s some Albeniz, Debussy, Marx, Grainger, Enecsu, Alexandrov, Bach-Feinberg.


Here is a list of my concerts this Autumn. Mostly Messiaen (newly learned earlier this summer) and Albeniz (continuing the touring I did of Iberia earlier in the year), but with some exciting new things: my wife Irena and I will give our first complete piano duet concert, including a new piece written for us by […]


My latest CD is now in the factory, and will soon be available. Jānis Mediņš’ 24 Dainas were written over a period of 40 years. The CD is released by Toccata Classics. Mediņš was from a family of Latvian musicians and helped establish opera and ballet in his native country. After emigrating to Sweden, he concentrated […]


Brno JAMU

03Dec11

Just about to leave for Brno, where I have a week residency at JAMU (Janacek Academy). I’ll be giving two concerts: one of Ives + Grainger, the other of Ferneyhough, Tiensuu, Murail, Sirodeau, Ligeti, Graham + Sirodeau. I’ll also give a talk on Grainger and do some teaching. It’s a great town + the hotel’s […]


My new CD of music by Felix Blumenfeld has been released by Convivium Records and is available now. It contains the quite large Sonate-Fantaisie and Nocturne-Fantaisie, and a collection of smaller pieces, including the cycle Episodes from the Life of a Dancer. The music is quite fun. I am about to go to Husum to play […]


news

14Jul11

Hello. My CD of John White’s early piano sonatas appeared early this year on Convivium Records. The same company have just sent my CD of solo pieces by Felix Blumenfeld to the factory, so that will be ready quite soon. I have just updated the whole site as well.


Last year I helped put together a series of concerts in the recital room in the basement of the Schott shop and publisher in London. They went pretty well so we have devised another. The pianists are mostly different ones from last year, and are all friends, some of whom are coming quite a long […]



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