Joanna Macgregor plays Liszt, Piazzolla and Couperin

Joanna MacGregor’s recital opens with birds and birdsong – elegant music by Rameau and Couperin – leading to Franz Liszt’s gorgeously impressionistic St Francis and the Birds, and his fiery homage to fallen heroes in the 1848 revolution, Funérailles. The Ukrainian composer Leonid Desyatnikov brilliantly captures the elemental, jazzy qualities of folksong, complementing the dark soul of the master of Argentinian Tango, Piazzolla.

Described as ‘a brilliant light in the music world,’ Joanna MacGregor CBE is one of the world’s most innovative musicians, appearing as a concert pianist, curator and conductor. As a solo pianist she has appeared with leading orchestras, performing in over eighty countries with eminent conductors including Pierre Boulez, Colin Davis, Simon Rattle and Michael Tilson Thomas. In 2026-27 she will tour Europe and Scandinavia, Canada and South America, India and China.

She has released over forty solo recordings – many of them on her own award-winning record label SoundCircus – ranging from Chopin and Piazzolla to Bach and John Cage, and is a regular broadcaster on TV and radio, appearing many times at the BBC Proms.

Her collaborative and composition projects encompass jazz, film, visual art, contemporary dance and electronica, and she is currengtly overseeing the music for forty-seven silent Sherlock Holmes films with the BFI. A regular conductor, she is Music Director and CEO of Brighton Philharmonic conducting bold, innovative concerts as they enter their second century. Her bestselling series of books for children, PianoWorld, has been hailed as ‘a new series for the Millennium.’

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Photo Credit: Pal Hansen