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with Samantha Ege

,Milton Court Concert Hall
Samantha Ege sat in front of a grand piano

‘Bold, brilliant, and daring women’ nourish Samantha Ege’s recital of 20th and 21st century piano music, including a work by Havanan ‘fusionista’ Camila Cortina Bello. 

Pianist, musicologist, and serial champion of the under-represented, Samantha Ege has a special affinity with Florence Price, whose highly charged Sonata launches a recital that also nudges the dial towards Cuba with works by Odaline de la Martinez and Camila Cortina Bello. Mexico yields an irresistibly fidgety study by Gabriela Ortiz, and East meets West in Chen Yi’s variations on a Chinese folk song. 

Samantha Ege’s Barbican debut in 2021 was hailed by iNews as ‘vivid, revelatory’, and that same year she gave the premiere of Florence Price’s complete Fantasie Nègre at the London Festival of American Music. Price is something of a calling card for Ege whose recording of the Fantasie moved the New York Times to observe ‘Triumphs indeed… a testament to how Ege has brought this music to the life it more than deserves’.

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This performance will finish at around 6pm with a 20 minute interval 

Produced by the Barbican

Programme

  • Florence Price   Piano Sonata
  • Camila Cortina Bello   Bravura
  • Odaline de la Martinez   Studies in Rhythm
  • Chen Yi   Variations on Awariguli
  • Gabriela Ortiz   Preludio e Estudio No 3

Performers

  • Samantha Ege   piano

Digital programme

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Milton Court Concert Hall

Location
Milton Court Concert Hall is located within the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is approximately a 5 minute walk from the Barbican entrance on Silk Street.  

Address
Milton Court
Silk St, London
EC2Y 9BH

Nearby public transport
We are within walking distance from a number of London Underground stations, the closest being Barbican, Old Street, St Paul’s and Moorgate. The nearest train stations are Liverpool Street and Farringdon. Bus Route 153 runs directly past the Barbican along Chiswell Street

Car and bicycle parking
We have free bicycle spaces and paid car parking spaces available