We welcome back world famous American virtuoso pianist-teacher Craig Sheppard to give a long awaited performance of Bach’s The Art of Fugue, BWV1080.

“Listen to his concluding octaves in Rigoletto (for him a burst of thunderous applause) or the final pages of Tannhuser and you will witness an astounding force and charisma, playing which rides on a knife edge between abandon and control .. You won’t easily find more exciting or, indeed, more leonine Liszt playing. Small wonder that at one stage he was acclaimed as a second William Kapell ”

Gramophone Magazine