Winner of the 2003 Concert Artists Guild Competition, Tanya Bannister recently confirmed her status among the leading pianists of her generation by becoming Gold Medallist in the 2005 New Orleans International Piano Competition. Her programme on this Naxos recording features three sonatas by Muzio Clementi, one of the leading pianists and composers for the piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The works demand something of the keyboard virtuosity for which the composer himself was renowned.