PIANIST Alberto Dalgo comes to the Old Schoolhouse at Tincleton, on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th October, with a programme called Northern Landscapes, featuring works by Schumann, Liszt and Chopin.

The Milan-based pianist begins the musical journey in the woods. Schumann’s Waldszenen takes us into a forest that defies explanation – a few steps, a glimmer of light between the trees, a barely perceptible movement. The Waldszenen are fragments of a place that reveals itself in hints, like a memory that refuses to be grasped.

Then comes the water. Liszt, through his transcriptions of Schubert’s Lieder, draws three faces: the wide sea, a stream that speaks softly, a calm surface that reflects the light. Three simple images, three breaths. The landscape changes again for the third piece, Grieg’s Ballade Op. 24, taking the audience to a more rugged, more bare land. This is an ancient theme that returns, transforms, rises again.

Finally, there is an opening as Chopin’s “Heroic” Polonaise bursts in – direct, luminous, affirmative. And so the journey ends: forest, water, rock, light. The north, reduced to its essence.

Alberto Dalgo studied at the Imola International Piano Academy as a pupil of Leonid Margarius. He graduated with top grades and honour mention in Piano Performance from the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali in Pavia, where he also earned a Master’s Degree with honours under the tuition of Maestro Andrea Turini. Success in many piano competitions included first prize and Grand Prix CMF at the Concours Musical de France, first prize at the Imka International Piano Competition in 2017, at the Bellagio (Como Lake) International Music Competition 2015, and at the JS Bach Competition in Sestri Levante.

He has performed as a soloist, in trios and with orchestras in concerts and at festivals throughout Italy and other European countries. He founded the Hopper Piano Trio, with whom he recorded pieces by Smetana, Shostakovich and Castelnuovo-Tedesco for the Da Vinci Classics label.