Warminster Festival 2017
Frida Backman ~ violin
and
Warren Mailley-Smith - piano
at
Warminster Athenaeum,
18-20 High Street, Warminster, BA12 9AE
on
Friday 27th October 2017
7.00 p.m.
£12 (cash only on the door on the night).
Warminster Festival’s Headline Performance
for this year, featuring
Frida Backman
who is travelling from
Scandinavia to perform in
Warminster.
Finnish solo violinist Frida Backman first appeared
as a
concerto soloist at the age of nine.
She has since performed the violin
concertos
by Sibelius, Barber, Bach, Tchaikovsky and Brahms.
Alongside the beloved classics she is a keen promoter
of rare Finnish
concertos and chamber works to
audiences in the UK and Finland.
In 2016 Warren Mailley-Smith became the first
British pianist to perform
Chopin's complete works
for solo piano from memory in a series of 11
recitals
at St John's Smith Square.
Hailed by the critics as an "epic achievement",
Hailed by the critics as an "epic achievement",
Mailley-Smith will repeat the series
at several venues in 2017-18.
The concert will feature works by Kreisler,
Chopin, Brahms, Prokofiev, Sibelius,
