Stephen de Pledge

Overview: Pianist, Stephen de Pledge, returns after a hugely successful concert in Whangarei in 2021. Currently Senior Lecturer in Piano at Auckland University, Stephen has won the coveted Gold Medal from the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. A highly acclaimed career around the world as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist has followed.

Bach/Hess – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

Haydn – Variations in F minor Hob.XVII:6

Schumann – Kinderszenen op.1

Interval

Messiaen – Prelude ‘chant d’extase dans un paysage triste’

Debussy – Prelude ‘ce qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest’

Eve de Castro-Robinson (NZ) – Prelude ‘this liquid drift of light’

Chopin – Prelude op.28 no.15 ‘Raindrop’

Rachmaninoff – Prelude op.23 no.2

Improvisation

Falla – Ritual Fire Dance