HUNGAR RIAN PIANIST IN BANGKOK
Hungarian pianist Anna Granik will give a piano recital at Sala Sudasiri Sobha, Lat Phrao 41, on Sunday at 4pm.
Held in collaboration with the Embassy of Hungary, the Republic of Slovakia, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Poland, the concert is part of the activities under the aegis of the 2017- 18 Hungarian presidency of the Visegard group.
The evening programme will feature classical tunes from great Hungarian composers, including Liszt’s Waldesrauchen from Two Concert Études, S 145 and Hungarian Rhapsody No.6 In D Flat Major, Erno Dohnanyi’s Adagio from Ruralia Hungarica and Bartok’s For Children (based on Slovakian folk songs).
Also featured in the repertoire are Variations On The Slovak Folksong In Pressburg By The Danube by Slovak’s great composer Jan Levoslav Bella; Czech’s national pride Antonin Dvorak’s Silhouettes; inevitably Polish pride Chopin’s Etude In A Flat Major, Op 25 No.1 “Aeolian Harp”, Etude In F Minor, Op 25 No.2 and Ballade No.1 In G Minor, Op 23; as well as a work of Chopin together with Liszt, My Joys.
Granik has performed many acclaimed recitals at leading music centres in Rome, Krakow, Vienna, Moscow and New Delhi. As a chamber musician, she performs with most of Hungary’s leading musicians and ensembles.
She has premiered numerous works by Croatian and Hungarian composers and regularly records as a soloist. Leading critics regularly refer to a conceptual intelligence allowing her to render even the most complex compositions in a differentiated but at the same time transparent interpretation. She is currently a professor at the Bela Bartok Conservatory in Budapest.
Tickets cost 700 baht, with proceeds going toward the Gift of Life Foundation to help blood-disease patients in Thailand, and the Bone Marrow Transplant Club, Chulalongkorn Hospital.