Lunchtime Recital: Abner Jairo Ortiz Garcia

In April 2018, cellist Abner Jairo Ortiz Garcia was selected to be the second CMF Mexican International Scholar. Jairo makes his London debut in this lunchtime recital at The Hospital Church of St Bartholomew the Less with pianist Mihai Ritivoiu.

Jairo won First Prize at the National Cello Competition of Mexico in 2014 and has performed at the Cervantino Festival (Mexico), the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival (Los Angeles), and Young Euro Classic (Berlin); he is currently studying in Pittsburgh (USA). Ritivoiu is busy as both a solo and chamber pianist working throughout the UK and Europe. Recent and upcoming highlights include Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the English Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall and a recital with cellist Yoanna Prodanova at the St Magnus International Festival.

Programme:

Henry Eccles Cello Sonata in G minor
Haydn Cello Concerto in D Major – I. Allegro Moderato
Schubert Sonata Arpeggione for Cello and Piano D. 821 – I. Allegro Moderato
Vaughan Williams Six Studies in English Folk Song
David Popper Hungarian Rhapsody Op. 68

Part of a day of music presented by City Music Foundation at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, also including Death Speaks at Barts Pathology Museum