Lunchtime Recital | Riccardo Pes (cello) & Andrea Boscutti (piano)

Programme includes:

Sergei Prokofiev
Ballata in C minor for cello and piano
Adagio from Cinderella for cello and piano
Sonata for solo cello

The concert will also include compositions for piano by Vladimir Blok who was responsible for completing Prokofiev’s cello sonata which was left unfinished when the composer died.

Riccardo Pes was born in 1987 in Spilimbergo, Italy. He graduated with outstanding from the Royal College of Music, London, on the Artist Diploma course under the tuition of professor Melissa Phelps. He was an RCM Scholar, supported by the Soiree d'Or Award, Pauline Hartley Award and the Kathleen Trust. He has been also recipient of the Prokofiev Trust Award.

Andrea Boscutti, born in Udine in 1988, graduated from the Alfred Cortot Conservatoire in Paris. He is a first-prize winner at the Tokyo Competition.