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Francis Rayner – Piano Classics – Your choice
March 18 @ 7:00 pm
£12.50
Welcome to Francis Rayner – Piano Classics Your Choice! Join us at Barnaby’s Lounge for an unforgettable evening filled with beautiful piano classics. Francis Rayner will take you on a musical journey, playing your favorite pieces and taking requests from the audience.
He was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1960, and started piano lessons at the age of six. Three years later, he won first prize in the Under-14 National Piano Competition. He then entered Chetham’s School of Music, and studied piano with Fanny Waterman and Ryszard Bakst. Whilst there, he gave many solo recitals and performed a number of concertos, including Beethoven’s 3rd with the Hallé Orchestra.
While a pupil there he gained the LRAM performer’s diploma at the age of sixteen and entered the Royal Northern College of Music two years later. At College he continued to perform extensively as a soloist as well as a chamber musician and graduated in professional performance.
In 1982, he won major prizes in the Alessandro Casagrande competition in Terni Italy and in the Claude Debussy competition in Paris.
In 1983, he moved to London, where he benefited from the professional advice of Murray Perahia and Charles Rosen and continued to perform and teach in the U.K and abroad, visiting Switzerland, Spain, Sweden and the U.S.A. He has also broadcast on Italian television, French radio and the B.B.C.
In 1996 Francis moved to St. Leonards where he is regarded as one of the finest classical musicians in the area. He is also an accomplished chess player & takes an active part in the musical and chess life of the region with pupils in both fields. He has for many years been a member of the Welsh National Chess Team and has won the Hastings and St Leonards championship ten times (hopefully soon 11!)
He has been closely associated in recent years with Opera South East, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Counterpoint Arts, Hastings Philharmonic Choir. He was also an orchestral pianist for the prestigious Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition every year from 2011-2016 and 2019.
He was a member of the London Piano Trio between 2016-2021 often performing in St. John’s Smiths Square.
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