Winner of the prestigious Gilmore Award, Kirill Gerstein’s musical curiosity, technical prowess and cultivated musicianship have led him to fathom the depths and explore the breadth of the piano repertoire.

His latest Wigmore Hall programme presents a fascinating juxtaposition of works conceived by Bartók and Bach as student exercises, together with Liszt’s Transcendental Studies, a dozen fiendishly difficult elaborations of earlier keyboard studies.