Orchestre à Six Mains – Three Pianists, Six Hands, One Piano

Name: Orchestre à Six Mains – Three Pianists, Six Hands, One Piano
Start: 2024-08-17T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-08-17T21:30:00+01:00
Location: St Vincent Street,Edinburgh,EH3 6SW,GB

Schedule

Sat Aug 17 2024 at 08:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

St Vincent Street,Edinburgh,EH3 6SW,GB | Edinburgh, SC

Hear our innovative piano orchestra perform finger-gymnastics music for three pianists playing one piano together!
'Artistic Director Matthew Shiel shone' (ThisWeekCulture.com).
Hear our innovative piano orchestra perform finger-gymnastics music for three pianists playing one piano together. Orchestre á Six Mains is a unique and creative piano ensemble which celebrates the rarely performed music for one piano, six hands – or three pianists at one piano – creating the powerful impression of a piano orchestra. Tonight’s programme includes a Romance by Rachmaninoff, an African boat-song by Percy Grainger, a medley of Scottish folk songs and a special performance of Sousa’s all-American Stars and Stripes Forever .
Tonight's Director: Matthew Shiel
Matthew Shiel is a concert pianist and conductor based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the recipient of a scholarship to study piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he graduated with first class honours and several academic and performance prizes.
Matthew has performed at venues including: National Portrait Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh), Unitarernes Hus (Copenhagen), The Glasshouse International Centre for Music (Newcastle), Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (Glasgow) and St Giles' Cathedral (Edinburgh) and has been invited to be a guest speaker to the Wagner Society of Scotland and the University of Middlesex.
Matthew has performed several piano concertos with the Scottish Meditation Orchestra (Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488 ), Àirigh Orchestra (Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.2, Op.18 and Koželuch - Concerto for Piano Duet in B-flat major, P.IV:8 ), Abbotsford String Orchestra (Bach - Keyboard Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052 and Mozart - Piano Concerto in D minor, K.466 ), Little Biggar Orchestra (Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595 ). Matthew was also entrusted to give the world première of Dr Alfredo Caponnetto's Baroque Concerto - which the composer kindly dedicated to Matthew. Matthew has also performed with The Band of His Majesty's Royal Marines Scotland .
Matthew is chief conductor of the Scottish Meditation Orchestra and the T he Orchestra of the Scottish Enlightenment and he teaches piano at the University of Edinburgh. Matthew is currently a Live Music Now artist, a charity and young artists scheme founded by Sir Yehudi Menuhin; it encourages gifted young musicians to perform to those who are unable to access live music such as those living with dementia, hospital patients receiving cancer care or children with additional support needs.
https://matthew-shiel.com/