We’re welcoming pianist Ethan Loch back for his third appearance with Manchester Camerata at The Great Nave of The Monastery, Manchester.

As well as performing a solo piano piece, Ethan joins our wind players in Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat major, K.452, a work Mozart himself called “the best thing I have written in my life”.

This piece gives every instrument a chance to shine, with piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon sharing the spotlight equally. At the end of the piece, Mozart replaces the usual single-instrument cadenza with one that involves all five musicians, highlighting the collective rather than the individual. First performed in 1784 with Mozart at the piano, the Quintet still feels fresh today, spirited, inventive, and full of life.

He will also lead our wind players in a rare improvisation, an opportunity to hear something entirely unique created in the moment.

Programme

• Solo Piece by Ethan Loch
• Improvisation on a theme of Mozart
• Mozart Piano Quintet

Performed by

• Ethan Loch Piano
• Rachael Clegg Oboe
• Kath Lacey Clarinet
• Ben Hudson Bassoon
• Naomi Atherton Horn