**STUDENTS - Please read the information below regarding how to access the free student tickets as there is a new system in place for the 2025/26 season.**

Programme to include:

Poulenc - Mélancolie, FP 105 (1940)
Debussy - Estampes, L. 100 (1903)
Debussy - L’isle joyeuse, L. 106 (1904)
INTERVAL
Schumann - Fantasie in C, Op. 17 (1836)

Born to Polish parents in what is today Lviv, Ukraine, Emanuel Ax is one of the most revered of all pianists performing internationally today. He moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy and was early recognized as an artist of prodigious musical gifts. He made his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series, and in 1974 won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. The following year he won the Michaels Award for Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the Avery Fisher Prize.

Recent performances have included concerts with the Colorado, Pacific, Cincinnati and Houston Symphony Orchestras, s as well as the Minnesota, Los Angeles, New York Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras. His 2022/23 season included a tour with violinist Itzhak Perlman ‘and Friends’ and a continuation of the ‘Beethoven for Three’ touring and recording project he has with partners violinist Leonidas Kavakos and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Emanuel Ax has been a Sony Classical exclusive recording artist since 1987 and following the success of the Brahms Trios he recorded with Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma, the trio launched an ambitious, multi-year project to record all the Beethoven Trios and Symphonies arranged for trio, of which the first two discs have recently been released. He has received Grammy® Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano Sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano.

Emanuel Ax is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Skidmore College, New England Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and Columbia University.

How the Camerata Musica Free Student Ticket Scheme works
Thanks to generous support from the Cavatina Trust, Camerata Musica is able to offer Free Student Tickets to selected concerts.

• Tickets will be held for collection at the Ticket Desk on the night of the performance (we regret that Free Tickets cannot be sent by post).
• Students in higher education and those aged 18 to 25 are eligible for the Free Student Tickets scheme.
• Students need to book using a credit card (either in person at the ADC Box Office, by phone, or online), making a fully refundable £15 deposit.
• The credit card used for purchase must not have an expiry date within six months of the purchase being made, otherwise a refund might not be possible.
• Provided the Free Tickets are collected and used, the full cost of the deposit will be refunded to the payment card within 10 working days of the concert. Please note that if the Free Tickets are not collected and used, the deposit will be retained.
• When collecting the Free Tickets you may be asked to present a current student card or a card showing proof of age.
• The Free Student Tickets are strictly limited to one per student. In order to book a ticket, you must be logged into your account and the code EMANUELAX26 must be entered in the promotional code field. This will unlock the Free Student Tickets (depicted as star icons on the seating plan) which you can then select and add to your basket.
• Tickets cannot be returned. If you are later unable to attend the concert but you have found another student to use your ticket instead, please contact our Theatre Administrator at least 48 hours beforehand so that we can make a note of the change of name. Please note that the cost of the ticket remains the original buyer’s responsibility and the deposit will only be returned providing the ticket is collected and used by the original buyer or another student in his or her place.
• As well as the Free Student Tickets, there are number of non-refundable Discounted Student Tickets which can be booked for £15. These tickets are clearly named Student Discounted (non-refundable) and are not part of the Free Student Ticket scheme.

For any questions on technical issues related to this, please contact our Theatre Administrator.

Our general terms and conditions of sale can be viewed here.
Please note that the producers are not allowing refunds for this event.