UPDATE: An inadvertent error appears in our promotional material for this year’s AFCM Festival. While Piotr Anderszewski’s performances in Townsville are an Australian exclusive, we recently have been made aware that his debut, and only previous appearance in Australia, was in performance with the ACO in 2001. We regret the error. 

ACMF Management

The Australian Festival of Chamber Music has announced 2015’s headline act, and it’s undoubtedly one of the biggest programming coups in Australia this year: a series of performances by Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski. The engagement is the centrepiece of the AFCM’s birthday celebrations as the Queensland-based Festival marks its 25th anniversary this year.

Considered to be one of the finest pianists in the world, Anderszewski is notoriously selective about his performing engagements, and so his decision to give three major concerts during the ten-day festival in the tropical North Queensland city of Townsville is an endorsement of the AFCM’s quality and reputation. Known for his perfectionism, astonishing technical prowess and his superb musical insight, the pianist’s most recent recording, Bach’s English Suites No 1,3 & 5 for Warner Classics, has been met with almost unequivocal praise since its release at the end of last year.

During the AFCM,...