Neil Georgeson is a pianist, writer and composer from the Shetland Islands. He appears regularly and widely as a solo pianist and chamber musician, and has performed as a soloist all over the world, and at UK venues such as King's Place, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Barbican, St David's Hall in Cardiff, the Colston Hall in Bristol and the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, as well as more unconventional venues like the Glastonbury Festival and the Village Underground, and at London contemporary music nights Kammerklang and Nonclassical.
Wanderer features Franz Schubert's monumental "Wanderer Fantasie", his most difficult and celebrated work for piano, by turns energetic, nostalgic, dark and beautiful, an truly epic piece of music. It also includes pieces by Liszt, from his "Wanderjahre" or "Years of Pilgrimage", and Grieg, from his music for "Peer Gynt" - a story about an archetypal wanderer - as well as several lesser-known and more contemporary works.
The concert takes as its theme the idea of wandering, journeys, travelling, from the travelling musician to the pilgrim or the refugee, thinking about the reasons why we travel.
Tickets for Neil Georgeson: Wanderer cost £20 and are available to purchase online here, in person at the Box Office in Mareel, or by calling on 01595 745 500 during opening hours of 10am-9pm, Tuesday - Sunday.
