This event is part of Newbury Spring Festival 2025 programme
Peter Donohoe CBE
- Corn Exchange Auditorium
- Band A £30 /
- Band B £25 (including booking fees)

Platinum priority booking goes on sale on Tuesday 11 February at 10am. Gold priority booking goes on sale on Wednesday 12 February. Friends priority booking goes on sale on Thursday 13 February. Tickets go on general sale on Tuesday 25 February at 10am.
Peter Donohoe CBE is one of Britain’s foremost pianists, whose international career was launched by his success at the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Since then, he has performed at the world’s major venues, including the Hollywood Bowl, the Sydney Opera House and the Teatro Colón, collaborating with conductors such as Simon Rattle, Yevgeni Svetlanov and Gustavo Dudamel, and he has appeared at the BBC Proms a remarkable twenty-two times.
This afternoon’s recital will include works from Schumann, Busoni, Chopin and Debussy before culminating with Rachmaninov’s Variations of a Theme of Chopin, Rachmaninov’s first large-scale piece for solo piano, which explores an enormous range of pianistic challenges at the outer reaches of difficulty.
Location: Corn Exchange Newbury
Duration: 2 hours (approx)
Sponsored by:
Lady Sieff
Sir Hugh and Lady Stevenson
Peter Donohoe: piano
Schumann:Abegg Variations Op.1
Busoni: Sonatina No 1
Chopin: 24 Preludes Op.28
Debussy: Estampes
Rachmaninov: Variations on theme of Chopin Op.22
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