17 May 2008 at 7.30pm

Ronan O’Hora (piano)

Conductor: Brian Wright

Walton – Spitfire Prelude & Fugue

Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No.1

Shostakovitch – Symphony No.10

The Penguin Guide hailed Ronan O’Hora’s recording of Tchaikovsky’s 1st Concerto as “an outstanding version, memorably fresh”. Either side we have two more scintillating scores of excitement and passion, with Walton’s homage to the Spitfire from the wartime film The First of the Few and Shostakovitch’s electrifying 10th Symphony.

Maidstone Leisure Centre, Mote Park, Maidstone.

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Ronan O’Hora studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Ryszard Bakst.  He has been a piano professor at the Royal Northern College of Music and Chethams School of Music. He regularly gives masterclasses and sits on competition juries throughout the world. Ronan O'Hora has been Head of Keyboard Studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama since 1999.