Philip Chiu, piano
Garneau String Quartet

Canada’s piano-superhero Philip Chiu makes a triumphant return to our stage for a program that includes Edward Elgar’s heart-wrenching Piano Quintet. The keeper of England’s musical heart wrote this masterpiece in the final year of WWI as an elegy to a bygone age. On the first half, Chiu will share music by Amy Beach and Percy Grainger. Our concert opens with a selection of Fantasias by Henry Purcell. These gorgeous pieces are some of the earliest four-voice string music and we can’t wait to experience them in the Winspear Centre’s perfect acoustic.

This program will include an intermission.

- PROGRAM -

AMY BEACH  - Scottish Legend
PERCY GRAINGER - Irish Tune from County Derry
PERCY GRAINGER - Molly Shores

HENRY PURCELL
Fantasias

EDWARD ELGAR

Piano Quintet, Op. 44