ENTERTAINMENT Angel Fingers © MATHIAS BOTHOR © MATHIAS Canada’s youngest classical piano star takes center stage at the Auditorium Sultry Nights Parco della Musica. Tiffany Parks has the details. Spice up your night with a burlesque performance at Rome’s trendiest retro hat could be more impressive around the world, including the New York hot spot, Micca Club. Upstairs you can than performing a solo recital to Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the twist the night away to oldies from the Wsold-out crowds at one of the most Orchestre de Paris, the BBC Symphony, and ‘50s and ‘60s, or pop down to the cozy prestigious concert halls in Europe? Doing it the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. He underground lair where live, old-fashioned when you’re barely 19 years old. Jan Lisiecki has played under such notable conductors burlesque shows take place every weekend. is a Canadian pianist of Polish descent who as Claudio Abbado, Antonio Pappano, Via degli Avignonesi, 73. Tel 3933236244. is taking the classical music world by storm, Christian Zacharias, David Zinman, and Paavo www.miccaclub.com being named Deutsche Grammophon’s Järvi, and collaborated with legendary artists Young Artist of the Year and winning the like Yo-Yo Ma, Emmanuel Ax, and Pinkas Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s Leonard Zukerman. Lisiecki’s ambitious program, like Bernstein Award last year alone. Lisiecki is his most recent album, is all Chopin. It opens certainly not the first piano prodigy to grace with the Grande Valse Brillante, op. 18, Chopin’s the world’s most important stages, but mere first important piano waltz, and continues technical ability and virtuosity are not enough with 24 Préludes, op. 28, a collection of short to turn every child star into a life-long concert pieces, each written in a different key. Three musician. Yet the wide acclaim Lisiecki has Nocturnes, op. 9 will lull you into a hypnotic received from critics and peers for his artistic dream world, but the ebullient and energetic maturity attests that his talent is of the lasting fanfare of Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise kind. After beginning piano lessons at the age Brillante, op. 22 will snap you out of your of five, Lisiecki made his orchestral debut just reverie to conclude the recital on a high note. four years later. Since then, he has performed Catch the performance on 28 May at the with some of the most renowned ensembles Auditorium PDM (p53). 52 WHERE ROME I MAY 2014.