North Highland Connections is delighted to have presented some of our most brilliant younger performers in its series of Young Artistes programmes. Through its partnership with the KeyBoard Trust NHC will present two concerts by a brilliant young Italian pianist, Gesualdo Coggi on the weekend of 27/28 May.

On Friday, 27 May, Coggi will perform on the new piano in the opera house at Ackergill Tower, Wick. His concert will start at 6:30pm, lasting until 8:15pm. Admission tickets are £8. For those who wish to combine the concert with dinner, Ackergill staff will offer dinner at £50 per head, to include the concert. Dinner will be served immediately after the concert.

On Saturday, 28 May, Coggi will perform in the parish Church of Scotland, Rosehall, Sutherland, at 7:30pm. Tickets are £8 (£6 concessions)

Gesualdo Coggi was born in Frosinone, Italy in 1985. He has won a number of national competitions and was awarded the Valter Cococcia Prize for the youngest graduate in Italy with the highest marks during the preceding year. In 2009 he won third prize at the 57^th International Busoni Competition; and in 2010 he participated in a public workshop with the first three prizewinners held by Alfred Brendel as part of the Bolzano Festival.

The programme at Ackergill Tower and Rosehall will include piano sonatas by Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert. Further information can be obtained from North Highland Connections; e-mail: MF@northhighlandconnections.org; telephone 01408-633964 or 07521077053

Source: North Highland Connections