Part of Chetham’s International Piano Summer School 2025.
Between Wednesday 13 – Saturday 23 August, Chetham’s International Piano Summer School brings world class and legendary musicians to a vibrant, supportive community in central Manchester. Alongside lectures, open lessons and opportunities to develop new skills, you can discover a daily programme of recitals from world-class performers.
Seating for these events will be unallocated. If you have any access requirements, please do let us know at boxoffice@stollerhall.com or on 0333 130 0967 (lines open Tuesday – Thursday 1.30pm – 4pm). You can find out more about access in our building here. Our venue will be open half an hour before each public performance and will close in between performances.
Day Nine
Lunchtime Recital with Hannah Roberts, Cello and Simon Parkin, Piano, 1.45pm – 2.30pm
Tickets: £5.50. FTE/U18 FREE
Hannah Roberts is one of the outstanding ‘cellists of her generation. In addition to her activities as a soloist, chamber musician, and principal ‘cellist of the award-winning chamber orchestra Manchester Camerata, Hannah is a committed and sought-after teacher. Recently announced as Jacqueline Du Pré Professor of Cello at the RAM in London, she is also Professor of Cello at the RNCM in Manchester, Visiting Artist in Cello at RBC, and visiting tutor for the University of Oxford.
Simon Parkin is Deputy Head of Academic Studies at the RNCM. He has also taught improvisation and composition at both the Menuhin and the Purcell music schools. Simon has developed his role as an accompanist/duo pianist, enjoying a comprehensive repertoire, and as well as his partnership with Hannah, he works regularly with artists such as Ralph Kirshbaum He is regularly invited as pianist for instrumental classes at IMS Prussia Cove, London Masterclasses and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival.
PROGRAMME
BEETHOVEN variations on ‘Ein Madchen Oder Weibchen’ from Mozart’s’Magic Flute’
Simon PARKIN: 3 pieces
BRIDGE Sonata
1. Allegro ben moderato
2 Adagio ma non troppe – Allegro e agitato
Lecture on Mucial Rhetoric with Murray McLachlan, 5.15pm
Tickets £11.50. FTE/U18 £5.50
Music is about communication. It is a kinetic art. Performers need to cultivate rhetoric, the art of persuasion as they shape their
interpretations. Musicians need to be conscious of different approaches rhetoric can take as they practise and perform. This lecture
will be illustrated with excerpts from a well-loved Haydn Sonata performed by Callum McLachlan.
HAYDN Sonata in A Flat XVI/39
A Recital with Charles Owen, 7pm
Tickets: £22.50. FTE/U18 £5.50
Described by Gramophone magazine as “one of the finest British pianists of his generation”, Charles Owen has enjoyed an extensive international career performing a wide ranging repertoire to outstanding critical acclaim.
He has appeared at London’s Barbican and Queen Elizabeth Hall and regularly gives recitals at the Wigmore Hall. Internationally, he has performed at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Brahms Saal in Vienna’s Musikverein, the Paris Musée d’Orsay, and the Moscow Conservatoire.
PROGRAMME
RAVEL Pavane pour une infante defunte
RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales
CHAMINADE Sérénade Espagnole Op. 150
CHAMINADE Guitare Op. 32
DE FALLA Fantasia Baetica
LISZT Deux Legendes
RAVEL Tombeau de Couperin
BUSONI Fantasia Contrapuntistica
A Recital with Peter Donohoe, 8.30pm
Tickets: £22.50. FTE/U18 £5.50
Peter Donohoe
“Peter Donohoe played as if visited by the spirit of Rachmaninov.” The Guardian
“I cannot imagine a living pianist capable of improving upon Donohoe’s outstanding artistry.” Musical Opinion
Peter Donohoe was born in Manchester in 1953. He studied at Chetham’s School of Music for seven years, graduated in music at Leeds University and went on to study at the Royal Northern College of Music with Derek Wyndhamand then in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod.
He is acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time, for his musicianship, stylistic versatility and commanding technique.
PROGRAMME
BEETHOVEN Sonata in Bb major Op 106
1 Allegro
2 Scherzo: Assai vivace
3 Adagio sostenuto
4 Introduzione: Largo… Allegro – Fuga: Allegro risoluto
