This season’s Wednesdays at the Manoel series comes to an end with a recital by pianist Stefan Cassar that includes music by Brahms, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel and Liszt.

Based in France and a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Musique de Paris and the Mozarteum in Salzburg in Austria, Cassar plays regularly in France, Europe and Asia. He was a prize winner in the Sophia 2000 international piano competition for the best interpretation of Liszt’s Après une Lecture du Dante, a work which he has recorded on CD, including major works by Beethoven and Chopin.

Cassar plays regularly in various chamber music ensembles with prestigious artists, including the Ludwig string quartet, French violoncellist Dominique de Villancourt and Russian violinist Vadim Tchijk.

He has also collaborated with Italian ballet dancer Francesca Ziviani in John Cage’s Ophelia and Landscapes and with French actor Francois Marthouret in a series of concert-lectures based on poems by Rilke and Proust. Cassar has been artistic director of various music festivals all over France, including Les Nocturnes de Carpentras in Provence and Un Piano a Collonges close to Lyon.

The programme includes Brahms’s Klavierstücke Op 76 No 1 and Klavierstücke Op 76 No 2, Beethoven’s Sonata in C Minor Op13 ‘Pathetique’, Chopin’s Scherzo No2 Op 31, Ravel’s Une Barque Sur l‘Ocean, Liszt’s Sonetto del Petrarca No104 and Mephisto Valse No 1.

Stefan Cassar performs on Wednesday at 8pm at the Manoel Theatre, Valletta. For tickets call on 2124 6389 or send an e-mail to bookings@teatrumanoel.com.mt.

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