Andrey Gugnin won the prestigious Sydney International Piano Competition in 2016, adding to his collection of awards from Italy, Vienna, Russia, USA and Croatia.
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At just 30 years of age, this is a young pianist at the start of an extraordinary career.
Andrey has performed at many of the great concert halls including Carnegie Hall in New York, Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, at the Eastman School of Music, the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the Moscow International House of Music, the Louvre, Teatro Verdi in Trieste and in Vienna’s Musikverein.
He has collaborated with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the St. Petersburg Cappella Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and the Asko Schonberg Ensemble, among others.
Andrey’s recording of Shostakovich concerti was used on the soundtrack of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film, ‘Bridge of Spies’.
Local audiences will have a rare opportunity to hear one of the world’s leading pianists performing at the Manning Entertainment Centre on Sunday, July 9 from 2pm.
Andrey will perform works by Bach, Liszt, Stravinsky plus a few surprises in what promises to be a wonderful afternoon of music.
John Wood returns in Bakersfield Mist
Later in July we are looking forward to welcoming John Wood (Blue Heelers) back to our stage after a too-long absence.
John will be appearing with his Blue Heelers co-star Julie Nihill in a very funny play Bakersfield Mist.
The Los Angeles Times called it “a wry two hander that handles highbrow artistic issues while zinging in plenty of uproarious one-liners. A perfect marriage of emotions and ideas that is rare indeed.”
Look for more information in these pages next week.
OnScreen: Twelfth Night
London’s National Theatre Live presents Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity. screening at the MEC on July 18 at 10am and 7pm.
