Programme
F. Schubert Impromptu in B flat major D.935 No.3
F.Schubert Sonata in a minor D.845
J.Brahms 2 Rhapsodies Op.79
Wagner/Liszt Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
L.v.Beethoven Sonata No.28 in A major Op.101
“His sound is lustrous; his playing is lyrical and full of feeling; he thinks not only of the passing notesbut of the overall form. Moreover, O’Hora is blessed with meticulous taste – there was not a vulgar,swooning or overstated passage in the program.” – The Washington Post
Ronan O’Hara, one of Britain’s best-loved artists, is Head of Keyboard Studies and Advanced Performance Studies at the Guildhall School of Drama and Music in London and an internationally renowned pianist.
He will perform this remarkable programme, which will showcase his finest pianism.
The British pianist Ronan O’Hora has performed throughout the world, playing with such orchestrasas the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic and English Chamber orchestras, the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Hallé Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Zurich Tonhalle, Netherlands Radio Chamber, Philharmonia Hungarica, Brno Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony, Florida Philharmonic and Queensland Philharmonic.
He has performed in every major country in Europe as well as in the USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa working with leading conductors such as Kees Bakels, Matthias Bamert, Hans Vonk, James Judd, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, and Lothar Zagrosek as well as appearing at many notable music festivals like Salzburg, Gstaad, Ravinia, Montpelier, Bath, Harrogate and Brno.
Broadcasts on radio and television world-wide have included a televised recital for the Chopin Society in Warsaw, a televised performance of Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto with the Netherlands Radio Symphony, two programmes of chamber music by Mozart for BBC TV, as well as over eighty concerts on BBC Radio 3.
Ronan O’Hora has made highly regarded recordings on the Tring International, Virgin Classics, Dynamic and Fone labels in which he has covered concertos by Mozart, Grieg and Tchaikovsky inaddition to solo piano repertoire by Schubert, Brahms, Debussy, Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, and Mozart, plus chamber music by Fauré, Britten, Debussy, Dvorak and Mozart in a discography which extends to over thirty CDs.
