For background information about the Isca Ensemble please see the next page.

Tickets are available in advance online at  
www.iscaensemble.org.uk or www.ticketsource.co.uk

Sidmouth concert tickets are also available from

Paragon Books, 38 High Street, Sidmouth (01395 514516).

Lucas Krupinski

London-based Polish pianist Lucas Krupinski was the winner of the 7th San Marino International Piano Competition and all of its contest prizes - the Audience Award, the Music Critics’ Award and the Orchestra Award. Lucas was a finalist at the Ferruccio Busoni InternationalPianoCompetitioninBolzanoin2017,andhas won numerous international piano competitions. As a semifinalist, he ranked among the best twenty pianists at the 17th Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw (2015). He recently competed in the finals of the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition.

LucasgaveanimpressiverecitalatCarnegieHall/IsaacStern Auditorium and has received invitations to play with the Chicago Philharmonic and the Buffalo Philharmonic. During the Winter Olympics in South Korea (2018), Lucas performed at a special recital in Pyeong Chang. He has recently performed at the Wigmore Hall in London, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, La Verdi in Milano, Royal Albert Hall and the Merkin Hall in New York as well as other engagements in Paris, Beijing, Tokyo and Sydney. In 2016, he was honoured with a Commemorative Medal from the Frédéric Chopin University of Music.

Lucas Krupinski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1992. He previously studied at the Frederic Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and continued his studies in Hannover and at the RCM in London. He is a Steinway Artist represented by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association and Madam Elzbieta Penderecki, wife of the late Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki.

NEWS.

Joel Munday receives a special scholarship from the London Symphony Orchestra.

See

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-68066469