26th Festival of Sant Pere de Rodes - CONCERT N. 5 - PIANO NIGHTS II (Sold out)

CONCERT N. 5 – PIANO NIGHTS II

AISA IJIRI, piano
LUCA LIONE, piano

Works by: Chopin, Liszt

SANT PERE DE RODES
Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at 8 p.m.

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PROGRAM

PART I – AISA IJIRI, solo piano

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Prelude in D flat Major “Raindrop”, Op. 28 No. 15

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / FRANZ LISZT
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 

FRANZ LISZT
Waldesrauschen “Whispers of the forest”, S. 145 No. 1

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Polish-Fantasia in A flat major , Op. 61

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PART II – LUCA LIONE, solo piano

ALFONSO RENDANO
Sad Waltz

FRANZ LISZT
Ballad No. 2 S.171

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Barcarolle Op. 60

AISA IJIRI
Following her acclaimed debut recitals at Tokyo Opera City, Carnegie Hall in New York and the Royal Albert Hall in London, Aisa Ijiri has established herself as a distinguished award-winning concert pianist and Steinway artist. She has been described as “a special talent whose European sophistication, intense passion and poetic sensibility create a unique artistic atmosphere” ( Record Geijutsu , Tokyo).

Aisa made her European debut at the age of fifteen as a soloist in a concert for piano and orchestra at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall and as a recitalist at the Stockholm Konserthuset. Since then, she has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world, such as the Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Fairfield Halls, Kioi Hall (Tokyo), Izumi Hall (Osaka), the Belgrade Philharmonic Hall and the Kolarac. She has also participated in major international festivals such as the Wimbledon International Music Festival, the Three Choirs Festival and the Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój. Her performances have been broadcast by Classic FM, BBC Radio 3, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), Radio Beograd, N1, CNN Style and other international media.

As a soloist with orchestra, Aisa has collaborated with numerous ensembles and conductors, including the Osaka Century Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kentaro Kawase and Ken Hsieh, the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir George Benjamin, the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Sachio Fujioka, the Orion Orchestra under the direction of Toby Purser, La Filharmonie under the direction of Nima Keshavarzi and the Salonorchester Alt Wien under the direction of Udo Zwölfer.

Her discography includes Pilgrimage and Ailes d'Amour , featuring works by Schumann, Liszt, and Prokofiev, as well as SAKURA and PRELUDES , written especially for her by Llywelyn ap Myrddin. In 2019, she performed the world premiere of Until We Meet Again , by Emmy-nominated composer Martin Tillman, with the Prague Symphonic Ensemble. Composer Melanie Spanswick subsequently dedicated Aisa: Sand, Silk, and Love to her , released by Schott Music in 2020. Aisa is also a Steinway & Sons Spirio recording artist and was invited to join Apple Artists in 2025.

Beyond the stage, she has participated as an artistic ambassador in films, television productions and international publications. She starred in Petrarca 104 , directed by Marco della Fonte, which received the award for Best Experimental Film at the Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival.

Aisa is a graduate of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Royal College of Music in London, where she obtained the Artist Diploma with Distinction. In recognition of her contribution to the arts, she was appointed an Honorary Representative of the Royal College of Music in 2018.

She is regularly invited to serve on juries at prestigious international piano competitions and performs worldwide as a Steinway artist aboard luxury cruise lines such as Seabourn, Explora Journeys, Crystal Cruises and Sea Cloud.

He was the youngest person to receive the Cultural Encouragement Award given by the mayor of Shiga, Japan.

LIONE
Luca Lione, an Italian pianist of great sensitivity, has performed in numerous Italian and foreign cities, such as the Royal Palace of Caserta, the "A. Rendano" Theater in Cosenza, Rome (at the Keiros Theater, at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere, at the Aula Magna of the University of Roma Tre and at the Torlonia Theater), Palermo ("Sala Lanza"), Venice for the "Spirito Nuovo Venezia" association, which allowed him to perform as a soloist at the prestigious Casino of Venice, as well as at the residence of the great German composer Richard Wagner, obtaining wide acclaim from the public. He has also performed in Naples, at the Villa Pignatelli for the "Maggio della Musica", at the Ravello Festival, among others.

In the United Kingdom he has performed at Steinway Hall in London, St Martin-in-the-Fields and St Mary le Strand; in the Netherlands, at the BplusC Theaterzaal in Leiden; in France, at the Louvre-Lens; and Belgium, at the invitation of the Dutch ambassador Frans Bijvoet at the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Antwerp.

Thanks to the sponsorship of the Lions of Tuttlingen (Friburg), he performs in the prestigious castle of the Barons Von Ezberg in Mühlheim an der Donau, obtaining great success. He made his debut in the Gläserner Saal of the prestigious Wiener Musikverein in Vienna and in the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn as the winner of the First Prize of the Grand Prize Virtuoso Vienna 2018 and Bonn 2020. Among the most recent concerts, the debut in the Capella Palatina of the Royal Palace of Caserta, the debut with the orchestra ROMA3 ORCHESTRA in the Teatro de Villa Torlonia performing Ludwig van Beethoven's Third Concerto for piano and orchestra under the direction of maestro Luca Bagagli, as winner of the "Annarosa Taddei International Award", and the concert in the auditorium of the Potenza Conservatory for the AMB with the Federiciana Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by maestro Carlo Franceschi.

Luca Lione completed his studies in the interpretative-composition specialty with a grade of 110/110, honors and honorable mention at the "CG da Venosa" Conservatory in Potenza, under the guidance of Maestro Vincenzo Marrone d'Alberti, who transmitted to him both the highest knowledge of musical phenomenology and the piano technique of the Matthay-Taubman school. He later took piano lessons with Nina Tichman in Cologne.

In a few years he became the winner of numerous national and international competitions. Among his most outstanding distinctions are the Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards in Los Angeles (2021), the Gold Medal at the Grand Prize Virtuoso Bonn (2020), the First Prize at the Grand Prize Virtuoso Vienna (2018), as well as several first absolute prizes in competitions such as "Città di Albenga", "Jacopo Napoli", "La Palma d'Oro", "Città di Mercato San Severino" or "ERATAI" in Foggia, among many others.

He has recently released his first album on the Da Vinci Classic label, with a monographic program dedicated to Robert Schumann. The album is receiving numerous praises from international critics.

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