CONCERTS in the West opens the 2026 series on Friday 13th February, with a welcome return for the acclaimed, young, Hungarian-born pianist Daniel Lebhardt.

The recital programme follows the usual pattern of coffee concert at Bridport Arts Centre at 11.30am on Friday 13th followed by a 7.30pm performance at Ilminster Arts Centre. The third concert is at Crewkerne Dance House one Saturday 14th at 7.30pm.

Daniel, who has a growing reputation internationally, and a CV that already includes performances at major venues, as a soloist and with chamber ensemble, will be performing an exciting programme of solo piano works by Chopin and Liszt.

Now based in London, he studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest with Gyöngyi Keveházi and István Gulyás, and at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with Pascal Nemirovski.

Since becoming one of the winners at the 2015 Young Classical Artist Trust auditions, Daniel has performed at many major venues, including Luxembourg Philharmonie, the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and festivals including Tallinn, Lucerne and Heidelberg, and in Canada, China, Japan, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and New Zealand.

In the UK he performed at Saffron Hall, at the Aldeburgh, Harrogate and Bath International Festivals, and Birmingham International Piano Festival.

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