Cirque du piano – 1 piano, 3 pianists, 6 hands, 30 fingers!

Experimental piano-troupe performs finger gymnastics and rarely heard music for 3 pianists playing 1 piano together! This ‘piano-orchestra,’ assembled from award-winning alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a captivating spectacle pushing the limits of what a piano can do! Programme includes a toy piano and 6-hand arrangements of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Mozart’s Rondo alla Turka, Rossini’s Barber of Seville, Scottish folk songs and a comic performance of Sousa’s all-American Stars and Stripes Forever.

“Director Matthew Shiel shone” ★★★★ ThreeWeeks

“masters of their craft” ★★★★★ BingeFringe

PROGRAMME

Stars and Stripes Forever – John Philip Sousa

Fantasy after Scottish Folk Songs – Carl Czerny

Romance – Sergei Rachmaninoff

Rondo alla Turka (‘Turkish March’) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Marche funèbre d’une Marionette – Charles-François Gonoud

Carillon de St Pierre - Georges Malézieux

Toccata and Fugue in D minor – Johann Sebastian Bach

Overture from the Barber of Seville – Gioachino Rossini