Piers was delighted that earlier this year, the National Gallery in London agreed, after the success of two similar events in 2006 and 2007, to institute an annual Myra Hess Day in honour of her wartime concert series, which famously ran from October 1939 through until April 1946. The idea originally came from Carmel Hart, who asked Piers to help with the artistic direction of the first event. He been asked to continue as Artistic Director of the annual Day. This year's series will take place on November 25th, in the Barry Rooms, where the original series took place.

HERE is a LINK to all events taking place on 25 November 2008.

Piers has also been asked to direct two concerts at the Wigmore Hall in 2009, in honour of the Swiss composer Ernest Bloch, who died fifty years ago next year. The first concert will take place on April 20th 2009 at 19:30, and will feature the Goldner Quartet from Australia, with whom he recorded Bloch's Piano Quintets for Hyperion. The second concert, July 15th 2009 at 19:30, will feature the violinist Jack Liebeck with Swedish pianist Bengt Forsberg. Piers has also been asked to be a Vice President of the newly reformed Bloch Society. The Bloch CD, Gramophone Editor's Choice for December 2007, may be purchased either from Crotchet or Amazon. More details about Bloch's Piano Quintets can be found on Piers' Discography page.