FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 2023

THURSDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER: 1PM

IYAD SUGHAYER (PIANO)

Mozart: Sonata No. 4 in Eb major K282

Mozart: Sonata No. 5 in G major K283

Phoenix Rousiamanis: Cocoon (world première)

Mozart: Sonata No. 17 in Bb major K570

Mozart: Sonata No. 11 in A major K331

The award-winning Jordanian-Palestinian pianist, Iyad Sughayer, begins his Mozart sonata cycle on his favourite piano in the Victorian Gallery at Leicester Museum.

Nominated as a 2022 Rising Star Artist by Classic FM, Iyad Sughayer was a prize-winner at the YCAT International Auditions in 2021. His second recording for BIS with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Andrew Litton was released to critical acclaim in autumn 2022.

Leicester International Music Festival has a long-standing relationship with this outstanding young pianist, beginning with his recordings for us during the Covid lockdown.

'He captures the music’s essence with such a close sense of recreative identity that it feels on occasion as though he could be composing it as he goes along.'

Julian Haylock, BBC Music Magazine

saturday 23rd september: 1pm

‘music for everyone’

Our brilliant festival musicians will present 'Music for Everyone' on Saturday lunchtime - a promenade concert aimed at families and young people - the first time since the Covid pandemic that we have been able to fill all of the museum's spaces with musical delights!

The atmosphere will be very informal and little ones are very welcome. Come and go as you please. Budding musicians will have the opportunity to chat to our professionals about their instruments.

We will present about an hour of FREE entertainment for music-lovers of all ages - why not combine this with a visit to the superb Leicester Museum and Art Gallery?

saturday 23rd september: 7.30pm

mozart & great british women

Mozart: Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica (piano), flute, oboe, viola and cello, K617
Thea Musgrave: Impromptu No 1 for flute and oboe
Eleanor Alberga: ‘Tiger Dream in Forest Green’ for flute, oboe, cello and piano
Mozart: Horn Quintet in Eb K407
Interval
Nicola Lefanu: ‘After Farrera’ for violin, horn and cello (second performance)
Mozart: String Quintet in G Minor, K516

Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin)
Katerina Nazerova (violin)
Ting-Ru Lai (viola)
Tetsuumi Nagata (viola)
Ashok Klouda (cello)
Thomas Hancox (flute)
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Ben Goldscheider (horn)
Anna Tilbrook (piano)