29-year-old Jan Lisiecki is a Canadian-born classical pianist of Polish ancestry. He was born in Calgary, Canada, and studied in Toronto. Jan has Polish parents, performs all over the world, holds a Polish passport, speaks Polish language fluently, and always emphasizes that he feels Polish. He has worked closely with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors in a career spanning over a decade at the top of the international concert scene. As part of the Canada Day celebrations in 2010, Lisiecki performed for Queen Elizabeth II and an audience of 100,000 people on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Last year, Jan performed at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London. Together with the BBC orchestra, he played Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto with such perfection and engagement that the audience demanded encores! And, as one might expect, he played Chopin…
Jan Lisiecki has been described by BBC Music Magazine as ‘perhaps the most complete pianist of his age’. He has been especially admired for his interpretations of Chopin, whose music forms the centre of this varied programme exploring the genre of the prelude.
This time Jan Lisiecki will perform at Wigmore Hall in London on 18 July 2024.
Programme:
- Fryderyk Chopin
Prelude in D flat Op. 28 No. 15
Prelude in A flat B86
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude in C from The Well-tempered Clavier Book I BWV846
- Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in D minor Op. 23 No. 3
- Karol Szymanowski
Prelude in B minor Op. 1 No. 1
Prelude in D minor Op. 1 No.
Prelude in D flat minor Op. 1 No. 3
- Olivier Messiaen
Préludes
La colombe
Le nombre léger
Chant d’extase dans un paysage triste
- Fryderyk Chopin
Prelude in C sharp minor Op. 45
- Sergey Rachmaninov
Morceaux de fantaisie Op. 3
Prélude
- Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Preludes Op. 1
Molto agitato
Molto allegro quasi presto
- Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude in C minor from The Well-tempered Clavier Book I BWV847
- Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in G minor Op. 23 No. 5
Interval
- Fryderyk Chopin
24 Preludes Op. 28
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval.
WHEN: Thursday, 18 July 2024, 7.30pm
WHERE: Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street London W1U 2BP
TICKETS: here
