Daniele Barraco Photography 2025

Ettore Pagano, Anne Gastinel & Han Bin Yoon / Beyond the Laurels

Sat 31 Oct 14:00

Studio 4

tickets

31 Oct

14:00

tickets

Brussels Cello Festival 2026 À LA CARTE

20% off when you buy at least 3 tickets for different concerts of your choice during the 2026 Brussels Cello Festival. Excluding the concert on 30 October 2026, ‘Strauss: Don Quixote’.

Program

Felix Mendelssohn
Variations concertantes in D major, Op. 17
Ettore Pagano, cello – Paisit Bon-Dansac, piano

Claude Debussy
Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, L. 135
I. Prologue. Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto
II. Sérénade. Modérément animé
III. Finale. Animé, léger et nerveux
Ettore Pagano, cello – Paisit Bon-Dansac, piano

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Figaro – Concert Transcription from Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Op. 60
Ettore Pagano, cello – Paisit Bon-Dansac, piano

Henriëtte Bosmans
Sonata for Cello and Piano
I. Allegro maestoso
II. Un poco allegretto
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro molto e con fuoco
Anne Gastinel, cello – Paisit Bon-Dansac, piano

David Popper
Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano, Op. 66
Anne Gastinel, cello – Ettore Pagano, cello – Han Bin Yoon, cello – Paisit Bon-Dansac, piano

artist(s)

Ettore Pagano, cello
Anne Gastinel, cello
Han Bin Yoon, cello
Paisit Bon-Dansac, piano

Beyond the Laurels

Fresh from his First Prize triumph at the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Competition, Ettore Pagano returns to Brussels for a rare encounter with some of the leading artistic voices of the cello world. The young Italian cellist opens with Mendelssohn’s elegant Variations concertantes and Debussy’s groundbreaking Sonata before unleashing the virtuoso fireworks of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Figaro. He is followed by internationally acclaimed cellist and 2026 Queen Elisabeth Competition juror Anne Gastinel in Henriëtte Bosmans’ powerful Sonata. For the finale, Gastinel and Pagano are joined by Brussels Cello Festival Artistic Director Han Bin Yoon in Popper’s deeply moving Requiem for three cellos and piano—a rare meeting on one stage that brings laureate, jury and artistic leadership together, celebrating what happens when the applause of a great competition gives way to the next chapter of an artist’s journey.

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