Summer Music Festival, Wednesday 10th August 12-12.50pm

Name: Slava Antipov

Instrument: Piano

An in-person and live-streamed concert, free admission. Livestream link here - https://youtu.be/YU_zxyB59Sk

Programme:

Chopin

Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op. 52    

Godowsky / Chopin

Study after Op. 10, No 12 (‘Revolutionary Etude’) for the Left Hand Alone         

Beethoven

Sonata in F manor, Op. 57 ( ‘Appassionata’)

Liszt

Spanish Rhapsody

Biography

Slava Antipov started learning to play piano at the age of six with his mother who is a professional musician. Slava played with the school orchestra at the age of eight and won a few junior piano competitions. When the family moved to London, Slava continued his music education at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music and the Purcell School for Young Musicians before entering the Royal Academy of Music where he was awarded a scholarship and the Peter Clarke bursary. Slava completed his education at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance studying with Alexander Ardakov. Currently, he is attending Piano Masterclass course with Martino Tirimo at Morley College.

Slava was selected to take part in the Lang Lang Inspires massed piano day at the Royal Festival Hall and performed with the Folkestone & Hythe Orchestra (conductor Graham Harvey) after winning the Clovelly Recording Piano Competition. He also became a finalist in the Liszt Society International Piano Competition.

He has regularly been playing solo concerts in Maidstone, Dartford, Deal, Bedford and London as well as taking part in the concerts all over the UK and abroad including Germany, France and Luxembourg. Slava performed a few times at Wigmore Hall including playing a Chamber Music Recital with the Kingfisher Piano Trio.

Slava is an outstanding virtuoso pianist and has extremely challenging compositions in his repertoire, including Islamei by Balakirev, Gaspar de la nuit by Ravel and Feux Follets and Chasse-neige by Liszt.