Piano recital by Swiss pianist Gilles Vonsattel

Winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation's 2002 International Piano Competition and the 2008 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Gilles Vonsattel to tour Bangalore, Delhi and Pune.
Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council presents a piano recital by the Swiss pianist   Gilles Vonsattel   

Bangalore Alliance Française de Bangalore on Sunday 20 September 2009 at 7:00 pm in collaboration with Bangalore School of Music    

Delhi India International Centre on Tuesday 22 September 2009 at 6:30 pm in collaboration with India International Centre and Delhi Music Society
Pune Mazda Hall, Dastur Primary School on Friday 25 September 2009 at 7:00 pm in collaboration with Poona Music Society      

ProgrammeJ. S. Bach: 3 Countrapuncti  L. van Beethoven: Bagatelles Op. 126 L. van Beethoven: Sonate Op. 110 Intermission   F. Liszt: Les Jeux d'Eau à la Villa d'Este A. Honegger: Hommage à Ravel (Swiss work) M. Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit      

About Gilles Vonsattel

Winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation's 2002 International Piano Competition and the 2008 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel is an artist of uncommon breadth. With repertoire that ranges from Bach's Art of the Fugue to Xenakis, Vonsattel displays a musical curiosity and sense of adventure has gained him many admirers around the world.   Vonsattel began touring after winning the prestigious 2002 Naumburg International Piano Competition. He made his Alice Tully Hall debut that same year and has since performed with the Warsaw Philharmonic, at Zürich's Tonhalle, Warsaw's Chopin Festival, and Tokyo's Opera City Hall; and in the U.S. with the Utah, Santa Fe, Nashville, and Grand Rapids symphonies, and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Vonsattel is also a member of the Lincoln Centre’s prestigious Chamber Music Society Two with whom he performs extensively both at Lincoln Centre and on tour.   

Vonsattel regularly participates in New York's Wordless Music Series and was featured in the spring 2008 issue of Esquire magazine as one of several groundbreaking classical musicians.  He continues to be deeply involved in classical music outreach in the United States, giving master classes at universities and schools.