Cheltenham Music Festival - Gabriela Montero (piano)

Gabriela Montero’s visionary interpretations and unique compositional gifts have garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted following on the world stage. This programme reflects the two opposites of naive and child-like ‘innocence’, and the darker, potentially more dangerous landscape she describes as ‘experience’ through her own music as well as the eyes of composers Schumann, Chick Corea and Shostakovich.

In memory of John Harvey Hooper

"Montero's playing had everything: crackling rhythmic brio, subtle shadings, steely power... soulful lyricism... unsentimental expressivity." - Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times