Every four years the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award is given to a pianist of superb skill and profound musicianship. The goal is to reward and nurture extraordinary artistry, and in 2006 Argentinean pianist Ingrid Fliter was named the fifth Gilmore Artist.

Since then, her career has blossomed, with concerts throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, and in 2011 she makes her Australian recital and concerto debut, with the Sydney Symphony.

In her recital program, Ingrid Fliter offers the rich contrasts of Beethoven and Chopin – power, heroism and classical forms on the one hand, subtle feeling, elegance and fantasy on the other.

Her interpretations of both composers are persuasive and charismatic, and when it comes to Chopin, you would think she had been born to play this music. As BBC Music magazine described her: “an artist with something considered and challenging to say about a composer caught on the cusp between classical restraint and romantic rhetoric.”

BEETHOVEN
32 Variations on an original theme
Sonata in E flat, Op.31 No.3
CHOPIN
Nocturne in B, Op.9 No.3
Waltz in A flat, Op.34 No.1
Waltz in B minor, Op.69 No.2
Waltz in D flat, Op.64 No.1 (‘Minute’ Waltz)
Waltz in A flat, Op.64 No.3
Waltz in G flat, Op.70 No.1
Waltz in A flat, Op.42
Waltz in A minor, Op.Posth.
Ballade No.4 in F minor, Op.52

Hear Ingrid Fliter perform Schumann’s Piano Concerto (29 June, 1, 2 July).