Cowal Music Club presents Ethan Loch

Cowal Music Club have been fortunate in being able to book the outstanding blind Scottish pianist, Ethan Loch.

Ethan was born in 2004 and diagnosed completely blind since birth.  He has won numerous competitions, the latest being in September 2022 when he won the keyboard Category Final of the BBC Young Musician competition at the age of seventeen. He went on to secure a place in the Grand Final at Bridgewater Hall where he played Chopin’s Piano Concerto no. 2 with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.

Ethan now studies with Fali Pavri at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

The programme for this concert is as follows:

• Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) : Sonata E flat major no 62
• Frederick Chopin (1810-1849) : Ballade no 1 G minor op 23
• Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) : Jeux d’eau
• Frederick Chopin  : Ballade no 2 F major op 38

INTERVAL

• Frederick Chopin  : Ballade no 3 A flat major op 47
• Ethan Loch (b.2004) : Waltz no 6 C sharp minor “A Dialogue”
• Debussy :

– Prelude no 7 bk 2 “La terrasse des audiences du la lune”

– Prelude no 12 bk 2

– Faux d’artifice (Fireworks)

• Frederick Chopin   : Ballade no 4 F minor op 52

Photo credit: Dan Prince