Mahan Esfahani, Harpsichord Concert

Leading international harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani played works by Kuhnau, J.S. Bach, W.F. Bach, and C.P.E. Bach, in commemoration of C.P.E. Bach's 300th birthday.

Speaker Biography: Praised as "his instrument's leading champion" (International Piano) and for his "daring and fiery performances" (The Times), Mahan Esfahani was born in Tehran in 1984 and first studied the piano with his father and as a teenager went on to explore an interest in the harpsichord and organ. He is the first harpsichordist to be a BBC New Generation Artist and to be awarded a prize from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. After his Wigmore Hall solo debut in 2009, the Daily Telegraph exclaimed "the harpsichord comes out of hiding ... magnificent," and he has since then developed an ever-growing reputation as a recitalist and concerto soloist at major European halls and with such orchestras as the Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The English Concert, the Hamburg Symphony, the Hanover Band, Arion Baroque Orchestra, the BBC Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony, and B'ROCK under the baton of such conductors as Thierry Fischer, Martyn Brabbins and Jiri Belohlavek.

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