05/10/2024
🎼Chopin & Italy🎹
💛A long-lasting LOVE STORY 💛
🍷Saturday, 26.10, 17:00
Join us for a concert exploring the strong influences exerted on Chopin by the music and culture of Italy, from his youth in early-19th century Warsaw which was engulfed by a craze for Rossini’s operas, through his adoption of the bel canto, notably inspired by the operas of Bellini, and which accompanied Chopin throughout his entire life, most evidently in his Nocturnes and culminating in the Barcarolle, a glorious tribute to the Venetian gondoliers’ song composed three years before his death.
Pianist: MICHAEL CHEUNG
Born in Canada, Michael Cheung obtained his diplomas in piano performance and pedagogy
from France (Ecole Normale de musique Cortot de Paris), UK (Royal Academy of Music) and Canada (Royal Conservatory of Music). As a soloist, he has been invited to perform in
prestigious halls across the world, including Salle Gaveau, Théâtre du Chatelet, Berlin
Philharmonie, Philharmonie Gasteig Munich, Wiener Musikverein, Grieghallen Bergen.
Passionate about chamber music, he regularly collaborates with musicians from renowned
orchestras around the world, including Orchestre de Paris, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Gothenburg Symphony, Oslo Philharomonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Michael has won top prizes in international piano competitions in USA, Canada, Singapore, France, and Poland – both as a young artist, and later as an adult ‘amateur’. He has notably won a top prize in the Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists in Warsaw in 2015. In more recent years, he has developed a particular passion for historical informed performance, which he explores through continued studies of the harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano and musicology. He is guided in his apprentissage of solo repertoire, chamber music and lieder accompaniment by leading specialists in this area, including Costantino Mastroprimiano, Luca Montebugnoli, Pablo Gomez Abalos, Sigiswald
Kuijken and Marie Kuijken.
As a creative, Michael conceptualizes and performing innovative programs, mixing classical and other genres of music with other artistic domains and performing in non-traditional venues. Recent successes include 'Bach to the Future' and 'Tangos around the world'.
Apart from music, Michael is a Director in the Pharmaceutical Industry. He also holds a
Master's degree in Positive Psychology and Coaching.
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