Dmytro Choni - Debussy, Ginastera, Ligeti, Prokofiev: Dmytro Choni Piano Laureate Recital

The Ukrainian pianist Dmytro Choni, winner of the 2018 Paloma O�Shea Santander International Piano Competition, has selected a programme that spans the 20th century. The first book of Debussy�s Images offers poetic evocation and virtuoso caprice, whereas Prokofiev�s Piano Sonata No. 6, completed in 1940, is the first of his �War Sonatas�, characteristically contrasting rhythmic vitality with rich lyricism. Ginastera, too, supplies vivid intensity in his Piano Sonata No. 1 suggesting the sound of the guitar, while Ligeti�s �tude is a Debussyian evocation of a rainbow.