Friday, 4 October 2024
7.30pm, Kelso Old Parish Church, TD5 7BH
Khrystyna Mykhailichenko Piano
Debussy
Preludes (selection)
Chopin
Piano Sonata no 2 in Bb minor op 35
Schumann
Humoresque op 20
Pianist Khrystyna Mykhailichenko was born in Crimea and after Russian occupation and the outbreak of the Ukraine war moved with her family to Kyiv and then to Corbridge in Northumberland via Poland. She has performed since the age of 5 and in her childhood won a number of international competitions, ceasing competitive activities in 2016. Since settling in the UK in 2022 she has studied at the Junior Department of the Royal Northern College of Music before taking up a place at the Royal Academy of Music in London, as a student of Joanna MacGregor.
£16.00
'The orchestra is headed by an outstanding pianist who is unconditionally immersed in Liszt's Piano Concerto'
Frank Piontek - 69th Young Artists' Festival in Bayreuth, Germany
'Liszt's Spanish Rhapsody I have not heard played with such authority and sterling musicianship since Gilel's monumental performance in London in the 1970's'
Christopher Axworthy- Music Commentary