Programme
Bach – Toccata & Fugue in D Minor
Bach – Prelude in B Minor
Max Richter – Written on the Sky
Scarlatti – Sonata in D Major
Piazzolla – Siciliana from Suite No
Joaquín Rodrigo –Fantasía que contrahace la harpa de Ludovico from 5 Piezas del siglo XVI
Marianelli – Dawn from Pride & Prejudice
Manuel M. Ponce – Intermezzo No 1
Alberto Ginastera – Adagietto pianissimo from Suite de danzas criollas Op 15
Claudio Santoro – Paulistanas
- Molemente chorosa
- Lento’
Federico Mompou – Lento dolce e legato from Variaciones sobre un tema de Chopin
Ricardo Lorenz – Salsa inglesa
Performer
Helen Glaisher-Hernández Piano
Studying Piano at the Conservatorio Nacional Superior in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an MMus in Piano at Trinity College of Music in London, Helen Glaisher-Hernández now combines her two great loves – music and hispanicity – as a concert pianist, musicologist, curator and educator specialising in Luso-Hispanic reperoire.
Daughter of a Rotherham greengrocer and a Spanish school teacher, Helen Glaisher-Hernández enjoyed a cosmopolitan upbringing which allowed her to appreciate the music of different cultures and traditions from an early age. Today she remains an adventurous explorer of undiscovered musical territories, unafraid to challenge convention and cross borders in seeking out new repertoire rarely heard in the UK. She has premiered many works by Latin American composers in the UK, including pieces by Villa-Lobos, Estévez, Vitier, Sojo, Carreño, Guastavino and Camargo Guarnieri, and ofern blurs the boundaries between ‘classical’ and ‘popular’ music with her own, unique arrangements. She has also commissioned new works by pre-eminent Latin American composers such as Ricardo Lorenz and Enrique González Medina.
With a special passion for chamber music and vocal accompaniment, Helen has collaborated with many leading artists in her field, including Dominic Miller (Sting), Luis Gomes, Ian Anderson, Vanessa Lucas-Smith, Omar Puente, Coro Cervantes, Bárbara Llanes, Clara Rodríguez, José Menor, Leonardo Pastore and Nina Corti, and she has also shared a platform with Morgan Szymanski, Fábio Zanon and Marcelo Bratke.
Helen has performed live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, and across London’s major venues, including sell-out appearances at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican’s Milton Court Concert Hall, St John’s Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St James’s Piccadilly, Bolívar Hall, Fairfield Halls and The National Gallery.
