Celebrated cellist Raphael Wallfisch will take centre stage in Londonderry for the opening night of the walledcitymusic festival
One of modern classical music's most celebrated cellists will take centre stage in Londonderry later for the opening night of the Walled City Music Festival.He plays this year's opening concert at the city's Christ Church on Thursday evening.
Pianist Barry Douglas and mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty will also perform in the city over the next four days. The festival's co-artistic director Cathal Breslin, himself an accomplished pianist who will accompany the master cellist at Thursday's opening concert, said this year's festival would "be one of the most memorable".Mr Breslin said the festival has themes of "returning home" and "musical generations" running through its programme.
"I have been talking a lot recently about the influence of Barry Douglas on most young pianists growing up, so it's a generational thing where you look up to an artist and they catapult you to a new level. It is the same with Raphael.The festival closes on Sunday with a concert by a host of young artists at Magee college's Great Hall.
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