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| Abigail Lim performs a Bach Prelude & Fugue. |
It was pure coincidence that I stumbled onto Pianomania, a free piano concert held at the Esplanade Concourse on Sunday evening (3 March 2013), Being similarly titled as this blog was also a coincidence, but the talent on display was something to be proud of. There were three separate concerts, held at a quarter past 5, 6 and 7, and on show were the piano students of well-known local piano pedagogue Benjamin Loh. I stayed on till the end, buoyed on by the fond memories of the 13-hour long SSO Piano Marathon of 1998 - featuring no less than 122 pianists - which I had helped to organise.
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| It may be said that the audience was almost as colourful as the performances on stage. On the right, Phang Wei Jun performs Brahms's Rhapsody in G minor Op.79 No.2. |
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| Wu Chin Ying had the requisite technique to pull off Schumann's ABEGG Variations. |
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| There were also younger performers. Carmellia Chang (no relation) played the Toccatina by Dmitri Kabalevsky. |
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| The second group of performers take their bow. |
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| 10-year-old Alyssa Kok was a most confident and engaging emcee. She also performed Glinka's Variations on Alyabiev's Nightingale beautifully. |
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| The youngest performer, Megan Lim (8 years old) played a ragtime piece by Milne called Vendetta. |
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| Abel Ling gave a masterful account of Tchaikovsky's Dumka. |
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| Jonathan Chua pulled out the stops for Granados's Los Requiebros from Goyescas. How he got the melody out from the left hand so seamlessly was very admirable. |
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| The evening closed with a no-holds-barred account of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.12 from Gavin Jared Bala, winner of the Pianomania Award in last year's Performers Festival. |
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| Applause for the marvellous young performers. |
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