Penelope Blackie

Penelope gave her first piano recital in Jersey in 1980 in the Great Hall of Victoria College.

Her current series of piano recitals began in 2007 and has been interrupted only once, in 2020.A graduate of the Paris Conservatoire, where she gained a Premier Prix, she was a pupil of the celebrated pianist Vlado Perlemuter who spent six months studying, with the composer, the piano works of Maurice Ravel.Concert programme:BACH – Italian Concerto BWV 971SCHUBERT – Klavierstück No 2 in E flat D 946CESAR FRANCK – Prélude, Choral & FugueCHOPIN – Impromptu No 2 in F sharp major Op 36Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23DEBUSSY – Estampes (Pagodes / La Soirée dans Grenade / Jardins sous la Pluie)