MARIA CANYIGUERAL piano
Monday 8 February // 1.10pm
The concert will feature:
Haydn Sonata in E minor Hob. XVI:34;
Guix Drizzle Draft;
Casablancas Una pàgina per Chopin; Berg Sonata Op.1;
Montsalvatge Sonatine pour Yvette; Scriabin Preludes Op.11 (selection)
Recital Room
Blackheath Halls
23 Lee Road
London SE3 9RQ
Tel: +44 (0)20 8318 9758
FREE with a retiring donation
About Maria Canyigueral
"We have, in front of us, a pianist with a great personality. We can see the results of her sensitivity and hard work". Jorge de Persia, La Vanguardia
Born in Girona, Spain, and currently based in London, Maria Canyigueral obtained a BA from the Conservatorio Superior de Música Del Liceu, Barcelona, studying with Michel Wagemans. She continued her studies with André de Groote (Brussels) and Nino Kereselidze (Madrid). Maria completed a Master of Arts in Performance course at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied piano with Sulamita Aronovsky. She graduated receiving the Dorothy Bryant Award. Her studies were generously supported by the Foundation Agustí Pedro i Pons.
Maria has performed both as a solo pianist and as chamber musician in some of the most prestigious venues throughout Spain and UK, including the Saló dels Miralls of Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Fundación Juan March in Madrid, the Auditorium La Pedrera in Barcelona, the Sala María Cristina in Málaga, St. Martin in the Fields, amongst others.
In 2013, she did the UK Premiére of “Sí, a Montsalvatge” by Benet Casablancas in the Regent Hall (London). She has collaborated several times with the Iberian Latin Amercian Music Society, offering concerts in St. James's Piccadilly. "Ilams is the first and only organisation dedicated to the study, performance and promotion of Iberian and Latin American classical music in the UK". Source: http://mariacanyigueral.com/
About Benet Casablancas
Born in Sabadell (Barcelona) in 1956, Benet Casablancas is one of the leading spanish composers of his generation. He studied in Barcelona and Vienna, where he worked with, among others, Friedrich Cerha and Karl-Heinz Füssl. He also has a degree in philosophy and a PhD in musicology, both from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Courses with C. Halffter, G. Ligeti, E. Carter, M. Kagel, G. Benjamin and M. Lindberg. His works, distinguished with numerous commissions and awards (Ciudad de Barcelona, Musician´s Accord of New York, Fundación Juan March of Madrid, Spanish National Recording Prize, Composer´s Arena of Amsterdam, Oscar Esplá, Ferran Sors, ISCM Festival, etc.), have been performed around Europe, Canada, the USA and South America, by prestigious soloists, ensembles and conductors (London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, Arditti Quartet, Ensemble 13 of Baden-Baden, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Notabu of Düsseldorf, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Perspectives Ensemble New York, Seattle Chamber Players, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Trio à cordes de Paris, Grupo Encuentros de Buenos Aires, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Ensemble Modern Academie, Ensemble Reconsil Wien, Trio à cordes of Paris, Ensemble 88 Maastricht, Ensemble Insomnio of Utrecht, Leipziger Streichquartett, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Kammerphilarmonie Bremen, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre National de Belgique, Hermitage de San Petersburgo, Symfoni Orkester Malmö, National Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Netherlands, Spanish National Orchestra, Orchestra of Barcelona and Catalonia, the Symphony Orchestras of Galicia, Granada, Tenerife, Comunidad de Madrid and Spanish Radio and Television, Spanish National Youth Orchestra, Gran Canaria Philharmonic, Trio Arbós, Proyecto Gerhard, Ensemble Reconsil Wien, Damocles Trio New York, Brouwer Trio, Trio Kandinsky, V. Jurowski, O. Knussen, J. Pons, V. Petrenko, L. Foster, F.-P. Decker, T. Weiss, G. Ben-Dor, M.A. Schlingensiepen, A. Leaper, M. Reichert, U. Pöhl, E. Micic, B. Güeller, R. Gimeno, A. Terzian, M. Scwierzewski, A. Ros-Marbà, J. López Cobos, E. Colomer, A. Posada, A. Gil-Ordóñez, F. Ollu, C. Rundell, A. Soriano, J.R. Encinar, etc.). His work 'The Dark Backward of Time', for orchestra, has been finalist of the Prix de Composition Prince Pierre de Monaco 2007. -