A piano recital will be given by Cédric Pescia in Gibraltar at the Convent Ballroom on Tuesday the 16th November with repertoires to include Couperin, Chopin, Beethoven, Holliger and Schumann.

Cédric Pescia:

Born in 1976, Cédric Pescia is a pianist of dual French and Swiss nationality. Studying with Christian Favre at the Conservatoire de Musique in Lausanne, and later with Dominique Merlet at the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, he earned a Premier Prix de Virtuosité with honors, completing his studies in Berlin.

Cédric also studied with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Daniel Barenboim, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ivan Klansky, Christian Zacharias, Ilan Gronich and with the Alban Berg Quartet. From 2003 until 2006 he was invited to attend the famous International Piano Academy, Lake Como in Italy where he worked with Dimitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, William Grant Naboré, Menahem Pressler, Andreas Staier and Fou Ts´ong.

Concert tours have taken Cédric over the world, performing throughout Europe, South America, North Africa and in the USA where he has played at prominent venues and theatres including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Hamburg Musikhalle, the Mozarteum Salzburg, Carnegie Hall New York, Wigmore Hall London, Tonhalle Zürich and appearing in leading international festivals such as Prague Spring Festival, Lucerne Festival, Menuhin Festival-Gstaad, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Davos Festival, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier and Les Muséiques Basel.

He is a founding member and the artistic director of the Lausanne chamber music series Ensemble en Scène and regularly teaches master classes in America and Europe.

Cédric Pescia Ticket Information:

Tickets: 20 pounds
For more information, please call: 200 721 34