ACCLAIMED PIANIST FRANCESCA KHALIFA

Friday, 3 March at 7.30pm, Lake Wanaka Centre

Submitted by: Kate Lovell

The Wanaka Concert Society is excited to present its first concert of the year with Italian Egyptian pianist, Francesca Khalifa, who has performed extensively in the United States and Europe.

Highlights of recent seasons include concerts as a soloist with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra in Egypt, the Orchestra Filarmonica Pozzoli in Milan, a solo appearance at Steinway Hall New York City, chamber music concerts with OSJ La Verdi Chamber Orchestra in New York City, and recitals in China and Cuba.

As a soloist, Khalifa has collaborated with the Guido d’Arezzo Symphony Orchestra (Italy), the Oosterkerk Festival Chamber Orchestra (The Netherlands) and with the MET Opera Orchestra string quartet in Mozart piano concertos (New York City). Khalifa is the founder and Artistic Director of the Beethoven Fest New York City.

She received the City Artist Corps Grant 2021 and was the winner of the Ferrara International Piano Festival in 2014, the Schio International Piano Competition, Alink-Argerich Foundation, the Premio Loreto Lancia International Piano Competition, and the N. van Westerhout International Piano Competition.

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