Event sponsored by:
The Sybil Trust
Event supported by:
Festival Patrons
BEETHOVEN – Sonata in F minor Op.57 “Appassionata”
BRAHMS – Op.118 complete
CHOPIN – Polonaise in A major Op.40 No.1
SHOSTAKOVICH - Sonata No.2
Freddy Kempf, a Festival Vice-President, came to national prominence in 1992 when he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. In 1998 his award of third prize, rather than first at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow, provoked protests from the audience and an outcry in the Russian press, which proclaimed him “the hero of the competition”. He has since collaborated with the world’s most distinguished conductors and famous orchestras. He frequently performs in Asia as well as across Europe.