| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 5-Mar-2013 Birmingham Town Hall | A bright and brilliant lunchtime in Birmingham with Jayson Gillham |
 No wonder Jayson Gillham looked pleased to be back on stage at Birmingham Town Hall. It must have brought back some happy memories, as it was here that he won first prize in the 2011 Brant International Piano Competition. In the intervening couple of years, he’s built up an inspiring CV. He played Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with the Hallé as a finalist in the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition, was named Commonwealth Musician of the Year, 2012, and has accumulated concert credits throughout London, across Europe and back home in Australia.Read full review... | |
| 15-Nov-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Pierre-Laurent Aimard honors Debussy and Elliott Carter at Carnegie Hall |
 When I first settled into my red velvet seat at Carnegie Hall, my excitement was overtaken by a grim foreboding. The hall’s internationally celebrated acoustics were offering an all-too-dazzling earful of sneezes and sniffles – a fact I observed in a germaphobic panic. Flu season has arrived in New York, but that didn’t deter anyone from attending Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s solo piano recital last Thursday. In fact, the hall was packed full of diverse (if sickly) listeners anticipating this incredibly versatile performer’s concert.
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| 17-Jul-2012 Église de St-Paul-de-Joliette | Melnikov the Magnificent: Schumann, Scriabin and Shostakovich at the Festival de Lanaudière |
 An extraordinary event took place on Tuesday evening in Saint-Paul-de Joliette, Quebec, a pleasant little farming community located about an hour’s drive northeast of Montreal. There, as part of Canada’s largest classical music summer music festival (the Festival de Lanaudière, centered in nearby Joliette), pianist Alexander Melnikov gave a weighty, exhausting recital that taxed performer and audience to the hilt, one that will surely be remembered for years to come.
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