Venue
Wigmore Hall
London, United Kingdom
7:30 pm
Louis Lortie
Upcoming concerts
Venue
Wigmore Hall
London, United Kingdom
7:30 pm
Venue
Sala Verdi
Milan, Italy
8:45 pm
Programme
C. Debussy: Quartetto per archi in sol minore op. 10 L 91
E. Satie: Gymnopédie n.1 per pianoforte
E. Satie: Gnossienne n. 3 per pianoforte
G. Fauré: Quintetto per pianoforte n. 1 op. 89
Biography
Louis Lortie is currently Master in Residence at The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels, and Artistic Director of the LacMus International Festival on Lake Como which he founded in 2017.
A prolific recording artist, he boasts a discography of over 45 recordings for Chandos Records, that includes concertos, solo works and piano duos with his regular partner Hélène Mercier.
A former winner of the Busoni Competition and laureate of the Leeds Competition (1984), Lortie studied in Montreal with Yvonne Hubert, in Vienna with Dieter Weber, and subsequently with Leon Fleisher.