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Piano Recital at St Vincent’s Chapel by Matthew Shiel

Concert pianist Matthew Shiel presents a challenging programme of his favourite piano pieces across five hundred years of keyboard music on 19th November at St Vincent’s Chapel.

Piano Recital at St Vincent’s Chapel by Matthew Shiel

About Piano Recital at St Vincent’s Chapel by Matthew Shiel

Matthew Shiel is a concert pianist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the recipient of a scholarship to study piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where he studied under Fali Pavri. He graduated with first class honours and several academic and performance prizes including: J.S. Bach Competition Prize for Piano, Harpsichord and Organ, Mary and Raymond Thomson Organ Scholarship, and Agnes Millar Prize for Outstanding Harmony and Counterpoint. He has performed at venues including St Giles' Cathedral, Sage Gateshead, Glasgow City Halls and Reid Concert Hall and has performed several concertos with amateur orchestras across Scotland.

Tonight, he presents a challenging programme of his favourite piano pieces sprawling 500 years of keyboard music from a Dowland song arrangement from the Dutch renaissance to a controversial set of 20th Century jazz etudes which were censored by the Third Reich who categorised them as 'entartete musik' or degenerate music.'

PROGRAMME
Two Préludes (from Premier Livre)
X. La cathédrale engloutie
VII. Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest
Debussy

Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor (BWV 903)
Bach

Piano Sonata No.12 in F major (K.300)
Mozart

Ballad from The Flying Dutchman
Wagner - Liszt

Cinq Études de Jazz (1926)
Schulhoff

Paduana Lachrimae
Sweelinck

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