LYTHAM ST ANNES MUSIC CIRCLE

Programme

Bach          Partita no. 6 in E minor BWV 830
Beethoven  Sonata no. 27 Op 90 in E minor
Chopin       Scherzo no. 3 Op 39 in C# minor
Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in D minor
Haydn        Variations in F minor Hob XVII 6
Janácek      Sonata '1st October 1905' in E flat minor
Albéniz       Iberia: Evocación
Granados    El Fandango del Candil (Goyescas)

Néstor is supported by the Making Music Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists. Néstor, Catalan by birth, began his musical education at the age of six. At seventeen he came to Manchester to study at the RNCM with Helen Krizos, gaining a Master's degree. He was awarded the highest prize given by the college, the Gold Medal, and was a winner of the piano recital prize and the piano duo prize with the Spanish pianist Luis Becerra. In 2008, he won a special prize in the Ibiza Piano Competition at which a member of the jury, Giovanni Doria Miglietta, invited him to perform in the festival Concerti in Villa Faravelli in Italy.