13 February 2006

Piano concert at University

The first University of Dundee Evening Concerts of 2006 will take place next Thursday (16th) with a piano performance by Angela Brownridge.

As a one-time child prodigy, Angela is equally talented in composition, extemporisation, and technically brilliant, Angela first performed in public at the age of seven, and a year later had several pieces published.

Since then she has appeared in all the major London concert halls, and has visited Eastern and Western Europe, the USA, Canada, and the Far East, as well as performing extensively in the UK. She has been a soloist with many leading orchestras and conductors, and International Festival engagements include Bath, Edinburgh, Warwick, Newport Rhode Island, Bratislava, Brno, Hong Kong, and Maastricht.

In 2004 Angela recorded the complete piano works of Kenneth Leighton who was her professor in harmony, counterpoint, and composition at Edinburgh University where she was on a piano scholarship. Leighton, who died in 1988, has been described as "the most important British composer of piano music of the twentieth century".

She will be playing pieces from Leighton, as well as from Bach, Debussy and Chopin.

Angela will also be holding a masterclass for pupils from Dundee High School, playing music by Chopin, Gliere, Gershwin and Mozart.

Thursday 16th February 2006, Chaplaincy Centre, Cross Row
Individual concert: £7; £5 (Concession); £3 (Student / Unwaged)
Tickets on sale at Dundee City Box Office, City Square or at door.

For more information contact:

Anna Day
Press Officer
University of Dundee
Tel: 01382 384768