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Multiple award-winning pianist and composer Nicolas Namoradze returns to Lancaster Arts, following his enchanting cconcert at Lancaster Priory in 2023.

Join us for the UK premiere of a unique concert, featuring video projection displaying what is happening in the pianist’s brain during the performance. This 'neurorecital' explores what can be understood about these pieces of music and what it means to play them by looking ‘inside’ the inner landscape of Nicolas’ mind.

Namoradze presents recital formats that reimagine the concert experience through a range of innovative projects, and furthers his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, where his interests include new perspectives on musical performance.

The works in the second half of the program mirror those in the first, opening with Scriabin’s so-called “Insect” Sonata, an iconic exploration of nature, the earth and land, and concluding with Nicolas’ own arrangement of Ravel’s celebrated Suite No. 2 from his ballet Daphnis et Chloé.

Nicolas came to international attention in 2018 upon winning the triennial Honens International Piano Competition in Canada. Among the most critically acclaimed musicians of his generation, Namoradze was bestowed the 2020 & 2021 Young Pianist Award by the UK Critics’ Circle. Nicolas studied at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, where his interests included new perspectives on musical performance.

“astonishing...[his playing] unfolding in an opalescent glow, every bar touched with beauty…exultant and never less than technically immaculate.”

International Piano

Concert Programme

Bach

Prelude and Fugue in E major

Beethoven

Sonata in B-flat major Op. 106, “Hammerklavier”, II: Scherzo

Debussy

“Les sons et les parfums” fromPreludes, Book I

Debussy

“La cathédrale engloutie” fromPreludes, Book I

Scriabin

Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, Op. 19

Scriabin

Sonata No. 10, Op. 70

Ligeti

Etude 11 “En suspens”

Ligeti

Etude 16 “Pour Irina”

Ravel-Namoradze

Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2

Image Credit: Tina Krohn