MARTIN KASIK - piano
Thursday 14 October 2010
8:00pm at the Radlett Centre

will be performing:

Chopin - Mazurkas Op. 24
Chopin - Andante spianato &
                 Grand Polonaise Op. 22
Chopin - Ballade Op. 23
Rachmaninoff - Preludes
Martinu - Polkas and dances

MARTIN KASIK, piano. Martin is an outstanding young Czech pianist who has won many prizes, including the prestigious New York Young Concert Artists Competition, where he was also awarded the Pasadena Symphony Soloist prize. Other honours include First Prize in the Prague Spring Competition, the Akzo Nobel Prize and the Davidoff Prize. He has recorded for Czech, German, Swedish and Missouri Radio and for Czech Television. He has made five CDs and his disc, “Martin Kasik – live from Prague” featuring works by Schumann and Rachmaninoff was awarded the highest rating in the French musical magazine “Repertoire”. The first part of his concert tonight is honouring Chopin's double centenary this year.