Aldeburgh Music

Gabriela Montero piano

Brahms Six piano pieces Op.118;
Chopin Ballades Nos.1 & 4; and improvisations on themes suggested by the audience

Gabriela Montero’s qualities as recitalist are recognised by audiences worldwide and have been nurtured by no less a mentor than Martha Argerich, yet she remains mystifyingly little known in the UK; and when Pierre-Laurent Aimard first heard her last year, he immediately invited her to the Festival.

It is her reputation as a free-spirited improviser that sets her apart, taking some of the great works of the classical repertoire and embellishing and extending them to form new works of invention, immediacy and integrity.

Music-making of intellectual and technical prowess furnished with an irrepressible sense of joy and unbuttoned spontaneity. A pianist who combines fantasy with form, control with caprice and unites that elusive trinity of composer, performer and audience in a refreshingly unconventional but thought-provoking experience.