Early Music Vancouver presents fortepiano virtuoso Olga Pashchenko in Beethoven & Liszt: A Musical Affinity
The special live concert will also raise funds for Ukraine
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Olga Pashchenko. Photo by Yat Ho Tsang
Early Music Vancouver’s Beethoven & Liszt: A Musical Affinity features Belgian-based, multi-award-winning, fortepiano virtuoso Olga Pashchenko in a concert that explores the kinship between the music of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) and that of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).
Liszt was a great admirer of Beethoven and is credited with giving the first public performance of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. 106. It was also the last sonata he ever performed, and one he so admired that he taught it to his students. The concert includes this very special Beethoven sonata and selected pieces by Liszt.
Olga Pashchenko.
Pashchenko gave her first piano recital in New York at the age of nine and currently enjoys a busy career as a soloist who is a frequent guest at early and contemporary music festivals alike. She has been 'Hausmusikerin' at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn since 2012, where she regularly gives recitals.
Born in Russia, Pashchenko is half Ukrainian and half Russian, with family living in both countries. The concert will also be a fundraiser for Ukraine with 50 percent of ticket sales going to the Maple Hope Foundation's Defence for Ukraine fund. The foundation will have an information table set up at the concert.
Beethoven & Liszt: A Musical Affinity takes place April 8 at 7:30 pm at Christ Church Cathedral. Tickets, from $32.25 (including tax and fees) can be purchased through The Chan Centre Box Office online or by calling 604-822-2697.
More information is at Early Music Vancouver.
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