Pre-concert talk 7pm, concert start 7.30pm

Fresh from a performance at the 2019 BBC Proms, Leon McCawley returns to Ireland to play a programme of familiar works by Haydn, Schubert, Hans Gál, Schumann, Brahms and Chopin.

Leon McCawley has forged a highly successful career since winning first prize in the 1993 International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna and second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition the same year.

Since then, his concert performances and extensive discography have established him as a pianist of great integrity and variety, bringing freshness and vitality to Classical, Romantic and 20th century repertoire. Leon will make his sixth appearance at the BBC Proms on 31st August, performing John Ireland’s Piano Concerto with BBC Concert Orchestra/Bramwell Tovey in a special tribute concert to Sir Henry Wood. The concert will be recorded and broadcast on BBC4 TV on 1st September.

Concert programme
Haydn Sonata in G major Hob. XVI/40
Schubert Sonata in C minor D. 958
Schumann Abegg Variations Op. 1
Hans Gál Three Sketches Op. 6
Brahms 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119
Chopin Polonaise-Fantasie Op. 61