Rudolf Firkušný Piano Festival

For the first time, the Rudolf Firkušný Piano Festival will welcome thirty-year-old Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki, performing a recital titled Preludes. “I enjoy programmes that balance the familiar with the unfamiliar,” says Lisiecki. “In the first half, I will present different composers’ approaches to the prelude form, while in the second, I will offer a cohesive cycle of Chopin’s Preludes, Op. 28.” Among the composers he will present in the first part of the evening are Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Henryk Górecki, Olivier Messiaen, and Karol Szymanowski. Lisiecki’s Preludes programme has already enjoyed success in the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall in New York, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and BOZAR in Brussels. In Prague, this youngest-ever recipient of the Gramophone Young Artist Award, who has been a leading face of the Deutsche Grammophon label since the age of fifteen, will present it on 8 November 2025 in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum.