Tuesday February 4th 2020 2.00 pm

Simon Watterton (piano)

Beethoven: Piano sonata in F sharp Op 78

Mozart: Adagio in B Minor K540

Schumann: Romance in F sharp Op 28 no 2

Schumann: Arabesque Op 18

Beethoven: Five Bagatelles from op 33, 119 and 126

Beethoven: Rondo Op129 'Rage over a lost penny'

Admission free with retiring collection. No tickets issued beforehand

Wirral born pianist Simon Watterton has given recitals as soloist and chamber musician all across the world. In recent years he has performed in China, Canada, the USA, Sweden and Italy as well as extensively in the UK and Republic of Ireland. He made his concerto debut at London's Cadogan Hall and was featured as a Rising Star in International Piano Magazine at the time of a cycle he gave of all the Beethoven piano sonatas in London. He has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, St John's, Smith Square and the Purcell Room, as well as performing live on Radio 3's InTune and for Classic FM. As a writer on music he selected and wrote the foreword for a new edition of Frank Bridge's piano music published by Dover Publishing of New York, which came out in October 2014.

Simon studied at the Purcell School of Music with Patsy Toh and the Royal College of Music with Yonty Solomon, where he won a range of prizes and awards, including the Hopkinson Silver Medal, the Marmaduke Barton Piano Prize and the Peter Wallfisch Prize.Recent concerts included an evening of chamber music at Cadogan Hall with the London International Players, and future projec ts include an eight recital traversal of Beethoven's piano sonatas at Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre from September 2020, in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth.He is represented by Gunnar Management

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