NSOI: Tchaikovsky, Florence Price and Sofia Gubaidulina

National Symphony Orchestra Ireland
Patrik Ringborg, conductor
Michelle Cann, piano 

Sofia Gubaidulina Fairytale Poem 
Florence Price Piano Concerto in One Movement 
Tchaikovsky Selections from The Nutcracker

With Christmas fast approaching, three delightful reveries of make-believe, wishful thinking and magic led by the ‘authoritative and masterful’ (Bachtrack) Patrik Ringborg. 

Sofia Gubaidulina’s Fairytale Poem gives life to a piece of chalk whose dreams are finally realised in colourfully eventful music lit up by affecting melodies.

Blending technical brilliance with intoxicating warmth and energy, Michelle Cann is the soloist in Florence Price’s virtuosic and colourful Piano Concerto in One Movement which collides Lisztian dazzle, late-Romantic fervour and African-American feeling . 

Boasting one glorious tune after another, Tchaikovsky’s seasonal favourite, The Nutcracker, includes exotic dances from Russia and China, the delicious ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’ and the sublimely lyrical ‘Waltz of the Flowers’. 

Pre-concert Talk

Kevin Barry Room, 6.15pm

Join acclaimed soloist Michelle Cann, ahead of her Piano Concerto with NSOI, in conversation with Máire Carroll, award-winning Irish pianist and composer. 

Piano Masterclass

In advance of Michelle Cann’s piano concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, we are delighted to present a masterclass with three piano students in the Kevin Barry Recital Room on Thursday 11 December at 10:15am. 

Presented by NCH