Cédric Tiberghien | UKARIA Cultural Centre

The French pianist Cédric Tiberghien makes his UKARIA debut with a program featuring a conversation between two composers: the Australian composer Lisa Illean’s 2024 Sonata in ten parts, and the work that inspired it, Beethoven’s monumental set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations. It is the kind of dynamic programming that, along with sensitive musicianship, has taken Tiberghien to performances with the Berlin Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Boston Symphony. Tiberghien recently launched his Illean/Beethoven pairing at London’s Wigmore Hall – a venue with which he has had a long-standing association. This UKARIA performance is its Australian premiere.