Norden Farm’s Summer Concert Series continues with pianist Graham Scott performing on Thursday 7 August at 7.30pm.

Graham Scott is one of the leading British virtuosos of his generation and has been recently appointed as head of the piano department at the Royal Northern College of Music. He studied under the distinguished Polish pianist Ryszard Bakst at Chetham’s School of Music and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, being awarded the Dayas Gold Medal in 1991, a quadrennial award made to a graduating pianist.

The programme for the evening will be:

Mozart: Sonata in E flat, K.282 Schumann: Sonata in F sharp major, Op.11 Chopin : Barcarolle Earl Wild: Grand Fantasy on Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess

His performance of Earl Wild’s prodigiously difficult Grand Fantasy should make an entertaining end to his wide ranging recital.

Graham has established himself as a versatile pianist appearing regularly in major venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Barbican Centre in London, Symphony Hall in Birmingham, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and Festival Theatre in Edinburgh. Graham Scott received critical acclaim when he replaced Martha Argerich at short notice with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinlandpfalz in Germany playing Haydn’s D major concerto and Richard Strauss’ Burleske. He was invited back the following season to play Liszt’s second concerto in a tour of the Rhine region of Germany.

As a soloist, Graham Scott has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, notably the London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, St Louis Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony, Royal Scottish National and Cape Town Symphony Orchestras.

As a chamber musician, Graham Scott has performed at the Huntington Chamber Music Festival in Australia with members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He has also collaborated with the Vertavo String Quartet, Stamic Quartet of Prague, Galliard Wind Quintet, violinists Marat Bisengaliev and Rachel Isserlis, flautist Jean Ferrandis, cellist Henri Demarquette and oboist Owen Dennis.