Boris Giltburg at Cheltenham Music Festival

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 15 July 2013

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Reviewed at Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham on 12 July 2013

Schumann, Carnaval, Op.9

Prokofiev, Piano Sonata no. 3 in A minor, Op.28

Rachmaninov, Étude-tableau in C minor, Op.39 no.7

Liszt, Piano Sonata in B minor, S 178

Boris Giltburg, Piano

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.