Canada has always been the source of remarkable pianists: Glenn Gould, Janina Fialkowska, and Jan Lisiecki, to name a few. Now, at age 23, a young man from Salmon Arm, a small town in British Columbia, is causing a sensation after having won several important competitions. Most recently, at the Paloma O’Shea International Piano Competition in Santander, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko not only took home First Prize, but also the Audience Prize and the Chamber Music Prize. Now, for his début appearance at the Ruhr Piano Festival, he has conceived a programme that reflects his enthusiasm for Romantic music. Along with works by Schubert and Schumann, he will also be featuring Late Romantic works by Nikolai Medtner and Alexander Scriabin.