Anton Gerzenberg has previously performed at the Ruhr Piano Festival along with his brother Daniel: one time, for instance, in a joint recital with their mother Lilya Zilberstein and Martha Argerich. Now, just after having garnered First Prize at the renowned Concours Géza Anda, Anton Gerzenberg returns to the Festival with an exceptional programme. For his performance at Holzwickede he will be pairing Romantic works by Schumann and Schubert with pieces by timbre magician Salvatore Sciarrino, one of the most widely performed Italian composers of our time. Sciarrino’s “Perduto in una città d’acque” (“Lost in a City of Water”) is a homage to Luigi Nono and his home town of Venice. After this musical allusion to the lagoon city, Anton Gerzenberg will bathe us in the nocturnal evocations of Maurice Ravel’s “Gaspard de la nuit.”