Coming up at 1.00pm on Thursday 14 February 2008 is a lunchtime concert in Inverness Town House by the young Georgian pianist Alexander Kanchavely, whose performance will include Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Sonata in C major and Chopin’s 4th Ballade in F minor.

Alexander Kanchavely was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1981. He started studying the piano at the age of seven at the Tbilisi Music Gymnasium and subsequently made his concerto debut five years later with the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra. Alexander furthered his studies at the Tbilisi State Conservatory with Prof. Tengiz Amaredjibi and was awarded his BmusHon and MMus cum laude. He is currently completing his Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, where Mifco and RSAMD Trust scholarships enable him to study under Aaron Shorr. He has already been awarded all the major prizes at the RSAMD, including the Governor’s Recital Competition, Ramsay Calder Debussy Prize and the Jock Holden Memorial Prize for the performance of a Mozart concerto. He has taken part in several international competitions, winning second prize at the Concerteum Athens and third prize at the Chopin Association Rome.

Alexander has performed extensively in Georgia, Hungary, Germany and the UK, both as soloist and as a member of the Mans Piano Trio. He was recently reviewed in The Herald as giving a “performance that restored belief in the music’s capacity to move and disturb.”

Inverness Arts Forum are proud to be presenting Alexander Kanchavely as the latest in the series of lunchtime concerts in Inverness Town House which was started by former Highland Council Arts Officer, Adrian Clark, following the presentation in 2006 to the City of Inverness of the magnificent Bosendorfer grand piano by Inverness Chamber Music Society.

For further information, please contact James Munro on 01463 710363.