The Schubertíada has announced this Tuesday some changes in the program due to an indisposition of the pianist Seong-Jin Cho, who has been forced to cancel his concerts. The festival, however, has announced that Claire Huangci and Alexander Schmalcz will replace him in the concerts he was going to give this Wednesday and Friday and whose tickets were all sold out.
Claire Huangci will lead next Wednesday, August 17, at 8:30 p.m., to perform a program consisting of Toccata BWV 912, by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata D 959 by Franz Schubert and, finally, Pictures of a exhibition, by Modest Mussorgsky.
Despite his youth, Huangci has a long career, since he began it at the age of nine and over time he has assumed an infallible technique, full of transparency and delicacy. She was a student of Gary Grafmann in Philadelphia and Arie Vardi in Hannover, two of the most prestigious professors in the world. One of her most outstanding recognitions came in 2018 when she won the first prize at the Géza Anda Competition in Zurich.
On the other hand, on Friday, it will be Alexander Schmalcz's turn to replace Cho to perform, together with Matthias Goerne, at 8:30 p.m., Swan Song, by Franz Schubert. Schmalcz is considered one of the most renowned accompanied pianists in the world and is one of the artists who has performed the most times in the history of the Schubertiade.
The festival has thanked both Huangci and Schmalcz for their predisposition to interpret the aforementioned concerts and thus prevent the public from being left without that delight.
