Prokofiev at the piano, painting by Igor Graba.After a hiatus of almost 15 years, Sergei Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto finally gets heard in Singapore. There will be two performances of it within the next two weeks! The Singapore premiere of this wonderful concerto was given by the Chinese pianist Xu Zhong, with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Choo Hoey, sometime in the mid-1990s.
The two pianists tackling this behemoth are the Russian Nikolai Demidenko and Singaporean Lim Yan. Lim Yan will be the first Singaporean to perform this work in public.
NIKOLAI DEMIDENKO's performance of the Prokofiev Second Piano Concerto takes place on:Saturday, 16 July 2011 / Esplanade Concert Hall, 7.30 pm
with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lan Shui.
LIM YAN's performance of the Prokofiev Second Piano Concerto takes place on:Thursday, 28 July 2011 / Esplanade Concert Hall, 7.30 pm
with the Singapore National Youth Orchestra conducted by Darrell Ang
with the Singapore National Youth Orchestra conducted by Darrell Ang
An interview about Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto with Lim Yan, published in the June 2011 edition of SMA (Singapore Medical Association) News, may be found here:
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