Cecile Licad plays in the garden-surrounded Gallery MiraNila at the MiraNila Heritage House & Library on Oct. 1—her only solo performance in Metro Manila this year.

The “pianist’s pianist,” as she has been described by The New Yorker, chose romantic and early modern works for her one-night-only concert: Beethoven’s famous Piano Sonata No. 14 (“Moonlight”) in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2; 19 short compositions from Schumann’s Carnaval, Op. 9; Liszt’s St. Francis de Paolo Walking on the Waves; three pieces by American composer Scott Joplin that she performed at the Carnegie Hall last December; and Chopin’s “favorite and dearest” of his ballads, Ballade No. 1 in G Minor. 

Licad is a recipient of the Leventritt Gold Medal, Grand Prix du Disque, and Pamana ng Pilipino Award, and has worked with such orchestras and conductors as the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, as well as Sir Georg Solti, the National Symphony Orchestra under Mstislav Rostropovich, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, the London Symphony Orchestra under Kurt Masur, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under André Previn, and the Russian Academy State Orchestra (Moscow) under People’s Artist of Russia Mark Gorenstein. 

Most recently, she was on tour with Wynton Marsalis and his brass band playing alongside “Louis,” a modern silent film on the early years of the legendary trumpetist Louis Armstrong. 

“Cecile Licad Up Close” is presented by the Benitez-Tirona MiraNila Foundation in partnership with the Erehwon Center for the Arts and the P. Ilusorio Foundation, and in collaboration with Gallery MiraNila by The Blue Leaf.

For tickets, text Bern at 0906-547-8268 or email [email protected]. Premium and regular seats are at ₱3,500 and ₱3,000, respectively. The doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the performance starts promptly at 6:30 p.m.

A Bizu pasta station and some light snacks will be available during intermission and after the concert.

Separate from concert tickets, there is a 5-6 p.m. sunset cocktail hour at ₱1,000 per guest and a late dinner under the stars curated by Bizu at ₱2,000 per guest. Book your spots at https://bit.ly/3JvaG9q.

MiraNila Heritage House & Library is at 26 Mariposa Street, Barangay Bagong Lipunan Crame, Quezon City. (Facebook: MiraNila Heritage House Events)