Details of this year’s must-do Valentine’s Day event in Worcester has just been revealed.
Worcester Cathedral is delighted to host renowned British Concert Pianist Viv McLean as performs a lavish Valentine’s-themed programme.
An enticing mix of romantic indulgence and popular classics to pull at the heartstrings and serenade your loved one. The programme includes Beethoven’s enrapturing ‘Moonlight Sonata’, Debussy’s evocative ‘Clair de Lune’, lyrical Chopin nocturnes, and George Gershwin’s celebration of life, love, and music, ‘Rhapsody in Blue’.
Described as "possessing the genius one finds in those who know how to forget themselves", since winning First Prize at the Maria Canals Piano Competition in Barcelona, British pianist Viv McLean (pic) has performed in all the major venues in the UK as well as throughout Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA. Viv began studying the piano at an early age, attending Chetham’s School of Music and later the Royal Academy of Music, where he held the Hodgson Fellowship and was made a Royal Academy Associate in 2005.
His concerto work includes appearances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, and BBC Concert Orchestra, under the baton of the likes of Wayne Marshall, Daniel Harding, and Chloe Van Soederstede. Viv plays regularly with the Adderbury Ensemble and has also performed with other leading chamber groups such as the Ysaye String Quartet, the London Mozart Players, and Ensemble 360, as well as regular recitals with CityMusic Promotions.
“Viv McLean revealed extraordinary originality, superb simplicity, and fingers of steel hidden behind muscles of velvet,” Le Monde, Paris said. “He is an otherworldly young man,” they went on to say.
Home to the oldest choral festival in existence (the Three Choirs Festival), Worcester Cathedral has been a centre of community life for the past fourteen centuries.
