Eelswamp Calendar 2025

Eelswamp Calendar 2025

Subject to minor changes

All concerts are at 6pm

January

Andrey Gugnin returns

Triumphant again!

"I told you I'd win it" ... and he did.

Winner of 12th International German Piano Award in 2023, the BBC Music Magazine Awards  Instrumental Award and the €100,000 2024 Classic Piano International Competition in Dubai, as well as the Sydney International Piano Competition in 2016 and the Gina Bachauer in 2015.

1. Friday 17th: 

Gugnin Solo 1: Liszt Twelve Transcendental Etudes 

Andrey's performance of the Liszt Etudes won the praise of Gramaphone Magazine:

"Gugnin’s cultivated pianissimo presto leggiero, imperturbable rhythmicality, his preference for the heroic over the melodramatic, and not least his wealth of poetic imagination, easily place him in elite company." Gramaphone Magazine. 

2. Sunday 19th  Gugnin Piano Quartets

Andrey Gugnin piano

Elizabeth Layton violin

Tasana Nagavajara viola

Edith Salzmann violoncello 

Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat op.47

Mozart Piano Quartet no. 1 in G minor K. 478

3. Monday 20th Gugnin Solo 2: 

Liszt Sonata in B minor 

and 

Chopin Etudes op. 10

Book now with Helen:

1,200 for one, 2,000 for two, 3,000 baht for all three concerts

Friday 31st 

Toto and friends

Schubert String Trio in B flat D471

Mozart's Divertimento in E flat, K563

Book now with Helen: 1,000 baht per person

February

Evgeny Starobdubtsev

After five years, one of the stars of Eelswamp returns with two programs. Evgeny has won more than thirty first and second prizes in international competitions in the last decade. He played at Eelswamp annually pre-covid to enthusiastic audiences. I'm very happy to welcome him back. 

1. Friday 14th 

Messiaen Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant Jesus  

The work is frequently compared to Bach's Goldberg Variations and Beethoven's late piano sonatas for its combination of intellectual depth and spiritual resonance. 

"... a landmark in the piano repertoire" Alex Ross

"a cosmic exploration of love, eternity, and the divine." Paul Griffiths

2. Sunday 16th

Evgeny joined by his wife, Alexandra

Beethoven Grosse Fugue for four hands, transcribed by Beethoven himself as op. 134

and Evgeny will play solo works by Liszt from Années de pèlerinage Book 3, The Martinu Sonata, Medtner and Feinberg 

Book now with Helen:

1,200 for one, 2,000 for two concerts

March

Eunhee Baek

Korean Liszt specialist, Eunhee Baek, was a prize winner in many competitions including the International Pietro-Argento competition, International Artur-Schnabel competition (2011/Berlin), International Liszt Danubia Competition, and International Franz Liszt Center Competition (2022).

She will give two performances of Liszt's monumental cycle,  Ten Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

I have listened to dozens of recordings of the Liszt Harmonies and Eunhee's July 2024 recording is one of the best. We are very fortunate to have her come to play it for us. I'm so thrilled to have her come here that I have scheduled two performances of the work. 

1. Friday March 7th Liszt  Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

and the same program repeated on

2. Sunday March 9th,  Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

3. Monday March 10th, Eunhee will play a solo recital

Works by Rameau, Liszt, Debussy and Grieg. Details available on request.

Book now with Helen:

1,200 for one, 2,000 for two, 3,000 baht for all three concerts