LONDON: St Faith's Church

Saturday 7th October, 2023

7:00pm

Event information

Haruko Seki, described by Musical Opinion as "a pianist with an innate ability to communicate with her audience" has performed at many major UK venues including St John's Smith Square, The South Bank, Wigmore and Fairfield Halls.

An Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, Haruko completed her Master's and won the Academy's highest performance award. The Times described how "vivid colouristic strokes...bathed in tonal beauty... took one off into a world of serene enchantment." She won First Prize in the St Charles Illinois (USA) International Piano Competition, the Croydon Symphony Soloist Award, and the Brant Piano Competition among others. She is a director of the British Music Series in her hometown Sapporo.

Programme:
Beethoven - Sonata in C minor Op 13 "Pathetique"
Liszt - Dante Sonata (Apres une Lecture du Dante - Fantasia quasi Sonata)
Interval
Borodin - In the Monastery, and In the Steppes of Central Asia (arranged by Philip Le Bas)
Messiaen - Le Baiser de l'Enfant Jesus (No 15 from Vingt Regards sur l' Enfant Jesus)
Chopin - Scherzo No 2 in Bb minor Op 13

Practical Action
Practical Action is an international development charity with a difference. Founded by the radical economist and philosopher Fritz Schumacher, author of 'Small is beautiful', the charity knows that the simplest ideas can have the most profound, life-changing effect. For over 40 years, it has been working with some of the world’s poorest people, using appropriate technology to fight poverty and transform lives for the better. This concert is promoted by the charity’s SE London Group of supporters (paselgroup@yahoo.co.uk).