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| Saturday, 27 February 2010 |
 St. Thomas' Church, Langley Road, Watford
proudly present a piano recital by Alexander Ardakov
entitled "A Homage to Chopin" on
Saturday 27th February, 7.30pm
in aid of the Peace Hospice.
Tickets £10 - Tel:01923 256126 (weekdays am) or
visit www.stthomaswatford.org.
Alexander Ardakov is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire and a prize winner at the Viotti International competition in Italy. He has lived in England since 1991. In addition to his performing career throughout the world he is a professor of Piano at Trinity College of Music in London. He has performed for BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM and has made many CD recordings, including Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  Among recent engagements are recitals at the Bosendorfer Hall in Vienna, at St John's Smith Square in London, at the Carnegie Hall in New York, in the Casteig Music Centre in Munich, the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford and a much acclaimed sellout recital in the Wigmore Hall in January 2007. In May 2007 he performed Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto in the famous Benaroya Hall in Seattle, receiving a standing ovation from an audience of 2000.
The evening programme will be:
Nocturne op32 no 1 in B major
Ballade no 1 op23 in G minor
Nocturne op9 no 1 in B flat major
Ballade no 2 op38 in A minor
Nocturne op15 no 2 in F sharp major
Ballade no 3 op47 in A flat major
Nocturne op9 no 2 in E flat major
Ballade no 4 op52 in F minor
Interval 20 Minutes
Polonaise-Fantasy op61 in A flat major
Nocturne op48 no 2 in F sharp minor
Polonaise op44 in F sharp minor
Scherzo no 2 op31 in B flat minor
Ballade no 1 op23 in G minor
Nocturne op27 no 2 in D flat major
Polonaise op53 in A flat major "Eroica"
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