Piano Series: Masterclass - Aidan Modica

Free Admission - 11am start - Please book your place to give us an idea of numbersThe Piano Series opens the new season with a masterclass and recital by Aidan Modica.
In this free masterclass, Aidan will be playing excerpts from and discussing his programme for the evening recital, which will include works by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt. These informal sessions allow a fascinating look inside the mind and technique of a professional musician and provide an ideal opportunity for aspiring pianists to meet and observe someone at the top of their craft. Tell all your keyboard playing friends!
Aidan Modica was born in Dartford, Kent, in 2005. Three years after starting piano lessons at the age of thirteen, he was awarded a scholarship to study both piano and composition at Junior Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. In the Summer of 2023, he performed with the London Schools Symphony Orchestra on their UK tour, as well as giving a series of solo recitals. He is a graduate of Christ's College, University of Cambridge, where he read Music, was Chair of the Music Society and sang in the chapel choir.
Due to the high standard of performance in his first year, he was selected to continue his piano instruction at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of William Fong; he has previously been taught by many eminent musicians including Riyad Nicolas, Matthew Schellhorn and Leslie Howard.
Taking Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand 'by the scruff of its neck' according to one member of the jury, Aidan won the 2026 University of Cambridge Concerto Competition. Forthcoming engagements include Rachmaninoff's Fourth Concerto with the Cambridge University Orchestra under Duncan Ward, Finzi's Eclogue with the string orchestra of the Trinity College Music Society, and a selection of works for piano duet and two pianos eight hands at the Reform Club in London.
An ardent musicologist, he has published the first instalment of a new thematic catalogue of Liszt with Leslie Howard and Minkyu Kim, and, since 2021, has served as one of the editors of The Liszt Society Journal.
Aidan comes to us courtesy of The Keyboard Trust and his recital programme will be:Bach/Howells - O Mensch Bewein' Dein' Sunde Gross, BWV 622Mozart - Rondo in A minor, KV511
Chopin - Etude, Op 25 No 7
Chopin - Nocturne in B major, Op 62 No 1
Beethoven - Sonata in C-sharp minor, Op 27 No 2Quilter - In a Gondola, Op 19 No 1
Prokofiev - Visions Fugitives, Op 22
Liszt - Les adieux, S409
Ginastera - Danza de la Moza Donosa, Op 2 No 2