Piano Recital

Join us for an evening of diverse solo piano with Duncan Honeybourne as part of his Scottish tour.

Duncan has toured extensively in the UK, Ireland and Europe as soloist and chamber musician, he has broadcast frequently on BBC Radio 3 and radio networks worldwide. This evening he plays a brand new work by Aberdeen based composer Philip Cooke as well as work from Franz Schubert, Chopin's Sonata in B minor, Alexander Mackenzie's Scene's In The Scottish Highlands and work from the 1920s by William Baines.

Duncan was a prizewinner at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating with First Class Honours and completing his studies with the Russian pianist Mikhail Kazakevich on a scholarship from the Sheepdrove Trust. He teaches at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Academy, the University of Southampton and Sherborne School.

“Duncan Honeybourne’s gripping performances” (The Times)

“glittering performances from Duncan Honeybourne” (International Piano)

“great technical facility and unfailing imagination”  (Musical Opinion)

“A profoundly thoughtful, inspiringly committed account of one of Schubert’s grandest and most starkly dynamic utterances”  (Musical Opinion)

“It goes without saying that Duncan Honeybourne’s playing is superb throughout. He has rapidly become the Dean of British piano music” (MusicWeb International)

Tickets £10, under 18s free. Tea and coffee available, to book contact us by email at info@cromartyartstrust.org.uk or phone the office 01381 600354.

Programme

Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828) 3 Klavierstucke, D946 (1828)

William BAINES (1899-1922) Tides (1920)

1. The Lone Wreck
2. Goodnight to Flamboro’ 

Alexander MACKENZIE (1847-1935) Scenes in the Scottish Highlands, op.23 (1880)

1. On the Hillside
2. On the Loch
3. On the Heather

Interval

Phillip COOKE (1980-) Songs of Morning and Night (2022)                                       

Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849) Sonata in B minor, op.58

1. Allegro maestoso
2. Scherzo: Molto vivace
3. Largo
4. Finale: Presto non tanto