Wednesday Lunchtime Concert: Suite Dreams and Hungarian Schemes

On Wednesday 25^th November 2026, pianist Robert Schmidli invites Wednesday Lunchtime concert audiences on a captivating musical journey spanning three centuries, from the elegant dances of Bach’s English Suite No. 5 to the sparkling exuberance of Debussy's L’Isle Joyeuse and the dreamlike beauty of his Rêverie. The recital culminates in Liszt’s dazzling Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10, a work brimming with rhythmic vitality, flamboyant virtuosity and Hungarian-inspired colour. This lunchtime concert promises a delightful blend of elegance, poetry and pianistic fireworks." 

Robert Schmidli studied with Alice Farquhar, Iola Shelley and Johannes Giessen in New Zealand and later with Steven MacIntyre and Jean Starling in Melbourne. He passed his LTCL and LRSM diplomas in New Zealand while studying medicine. In his first year of Medicine in Christchurch he was awarded the Union in Graduates in Music prize at Canterbury University. During his medical studies in Dunedin he performed on national and local radio. He has played works including the Liszt second piano concerto and the Rachmaninov Rhapsody on…