The famous young Portuguese pianist Vasco Dantas will present the programme which graces his latest CD. Robert Schumann´s Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood); followed by Carl Reinecke´s Transcriptions of Schumann´s Songs; and after the interval, Modest Mussorgsky`s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Vasco Dantas was born in Porto in 1992, and graduated from the Royal College of Music in London with a First Class Distinction. He has won already more than fifty prizes in competitions in Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. In 2017, he accompanied the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra in the Grand Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, and in 2020 performed for the first time at the Carnegie Hall in New York. He has performed with many Portuguese orchestras, including the Gulbenkian. Tickets at €25 are available