Photo: James Cardell-Oliver
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Please note, for Health and Safety reasons you are not permitted to attend without a booking.
Pushkin House is proud to present our first public event since the lockdown began in March. Rising star Jordanian-Palestinian pianist Iyad Sughayer will be playing works by Beethoven and Aram Khachaturyan (1903-1978), in whose music Sughayer specializes. A pillar of the Soviet school of composition, Soviet-Armenian composer Khachaturyan spent most of his creative life in Moscow. In the West, his piano music is rarely heard in concerts, but you will definitely recognize the opening movement of his ‘Masquaerade Suite’, the striking Waltz.
The concert will be 60 minutes long, without an interval and the audience will be limited to 15 people to comply with Covid-19 social distancing measures.
Programme:
Beethoven. Sonata in D minor, Op. 31 no. 2, ‘Tempest’
Khachaturian. Poem (1927)
Khachaturian. Masquerade Suite (1941)
Chosen as ‘One to Watch’ by International Piano Magazine, pianist Iyad Sughayer’s debut album, the Khachaturian Piano Works, on BIS Records received critical acclaim when it was released in November 2019. The album was described by Gramophone as ‘exhilarating and delivered with perfect clarity’ and ‘He captures the music’s essence with such a close sense of recreative identity that it feels on occasion as though he could be composing it as he goes along. An outstanding debut’ by BBC Music Magazine.
Sughayer has appeared as a soloist with many leading orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the European Union Chamber Orchestra and the Manchester Camerata. He has performed on the stages of Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall and the Stoller Hall – where he made his debut on BBC Radio 3 – the Laeiszhalle, Hamburg; Steinway Hall, New York; Castleton Festival, Virginia; Kings Place and Wigmore Hall in London.
Born in Amman in 1993, the Jordanian-Palestinian pianist received his early musical education in Jordan and went on to study at Chetham’s School of Music in the UK with Marie Louise Taylor and Murray McLachlan. He then graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music as a scholar and from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where he was awarded the College’s prestigious Gold Medal. In 2018, he returned to the RNCM to complete the International Artist Diploma with Murray McLachlan, Martino Tirimo and Graham Scott. In 2019, Iyad Sughayer was selected as a City Music Foundation Artist.
