Viv McLean’s Amersham piano highlight

Liz Nicholls

Amersham Concert Club invite you to enjoy a piano recital with one of their most popular star pianists, Viv McLean, on Saturday 22nd February at Amersham Free Church

Viv McLean will make a welcome return to play for Amersham music-lovers this month, with a programme taking the audience on a whirlwind trip from the late Baroque world of Scarlatti to the early Romantic music of Beethoven. 

The concert opens with four of Scarlatti’s many sonatas written for the harpsicord and early piano, including Brahm’s intriguing Variations and Fugue on a Theme.    

The second half of the concert will start with Mozart’s popular C Major Sonata, followed by Beethoven’s mighty and tempestuous Appassionata Sonata. 

Viv won first prize at the Maria Canals piano competition in Barcelona, and since then has performed in all the major venues in the UK as well as throughout Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA. Viv’s concerto work includes appearances with the RPO, Philharmonia Orchestra, LPO, Halle Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Sinfonia Viva, Orchestra of the Swan, Orchestra of St John’s, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Concert Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. 

In recent years, Viv has played for the club as a soloist playing Beethoven, Chopin and Gershwin, with cellist Anna Neary, and with Shiry Rashovsky and Jessica Duchen in a programme of words and music celebrating Vaughan Williams. Versatile and engaging, his performances never fail to delight.