Olga Kern

CONCERT 4 – Olga Kern Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 8 PM Vancouver Playhouse Ogla Kern’s Website “It was her sharp and decisive movements and utterly precise playing (of Rachmaninoff’ First Piano Concerto) that truly mesmerized in her debut with the...

Janne Mertanen

CONCERT 3 – Janne Mertanen Friday, March 28, 2014 at 8 PM Magee Theatre Buy your ticket today. Janne Mertanen’s Website “To sum up, I would rank Mertanen in the First Concerto with Gary Graffman, on LP, and in the Second Concerto with Arthur Rubinstein’s...

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

CONCERT 2 – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 8:00 PM Vancouver Playhouse Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s Website “…the CD’s raison d’être is the Ravel. Bavouzet’s G major concerto is the best since Michelangeli’s 50 years ago: it has style, verve,...

Sofya Gulyak

CONCERT 1 – Sofya Gulyak Friday, October 4, 2013 at 8:00 PM Vancouver Playhouse Sofya Gulyak’s Website “Gulyak powered her way to the prize with a performance of Brahms’s First Concerto that was often superb in its measured intensity…she has the right...

Nikolay Khozyainov

CONCERT 4 – Nikolay Khozyainov Friday, May 8, 2015 at 7:30 PM Vancouver Playhouse Buy Tickets Nikolay Khozyainov’s Website “…Now comes a Chopin and Liszt program by…Nikolay Khozyainov. He has everything: a big sound, splendid technique, and a musicality...

Nelson Goerner

CONCERT 3 – Nelson Goerner Friday, March 13, 2015 at 7:30 PM Magee Theatre Buy Tickets Nelson Goerner’s Website “His range of colour and dynamics brought to mind a one-man orchestra, capable of explosive power and massive sonority, but it was used...