Chamber Orchestra Concert: Classical Brilliance – Mozart & Mendelssohn

Join the Morley Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Charles Peebles, for an evening of Classical elegance and Romantic energy. The concert opens with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488, a work of luminous beauty and emotional depth, performed by pianist Maria Canyigueral. The programme concludes with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11, a youthful yet powerful work that combines Classical clarity with the composer’s distinctive Romantic voice. An engaging concert showcasing two masterpieces of the orchestral repertoire.

About Maria Canyigueral

Maria Canyigueral has been described by La Vanguardia as “a pianist of great personality”. Praised for her “finely nuanced sensitive playing” (Pizzicato Magazine) and “delicate, subtle, and deeply intense musical vision” (Melómano), she is recognised as one of the leading lights among the new generation of Spanish pianists. She has performed at prestigious venues including Palau de la Música Catalana, Auditori in Barcelona, Fundación Juan March in Madrid, Wigmore Hall in London, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Ljubljana Festival.

Collaborations include contemporary composers Antón García Abril, Benet Casablancas, Nicolas Bacri, Konstantia Gourzi and Moritz Eggert. Her acclaimed solo album Avantguarding Mompou (Audite, 2020) features the complete Cançons i danses by Frederic Mompou alongside commissioned works, and was praised by International Piano, Pizzicato, and Revista Musical Catalana. With violinist Lana Trotovsek, she won the Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards (2016) and released multiple albums, including Beethoven’s complete violin sonatas (ZKP RTV Slovenia/Festival Ljubljana, 2020), awarded Melómano de Oro and five stars in Musical Opinion.

Other recordings include Beethoven’s complete cello works with Ramon Bassal, awarded Melómano de Oro and nominated at ICMA (Da Vinci Classics, 2023) and Milestones (Somm Recordings, 2024–25) with Trotovsek and Boris Bizjak, praised by Gramophone and the BBC. International appearances have taken her to Spain, the UK, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and France. She is also the artistic director of a chamber music series at the Sarrià Theatre in Barcelona since 2021.

Born in Catalonia, Maria studied at the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona with Michel Wagemans, completed her Master of Arts in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Sulamita Aronovsky, and received guidance from Nino Kereselidze in Madrid and André de Groote in Brussels. She currently teaches piano at Morley College, London.

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