Photographs from PIANO ISLAND FESTIVAL: OPENING CONCERT

INTERNATIONAL 
PIANO ISLAND FESTIVAL 2018
Opening Concert, Steinway Gallery
Monday (8 January 2017)

There is a new international piano festival in town. Named the International Piano Island Festival, it is the brainchild of young Singaporean and Paris-trained pianist Wang Congyu. The festival alternates between Singapore and the Reunion Islands where Wang and his wife Julie reside and run a music school. This festival includes a piano competition for young musicians, a series of masterclasses, private lessons, lectures and concerts by an international panel of pianists.

Please find more information at its dedicated website:

www.pianoislandfestival.com

and its detailed calendar of events:

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/af746e_f920949b063b40049ee5f981a1114f1d.pdf   

Below are photographs of the festival's opening event, a short recital by members of its faculty, held at Steinway Gallery Singapore at ION Orchard.

Wang Congyu opens the Festival.

Well-known Singaporean piano pedagogue
Benjamin Loh played with great sensitivity
Leonard Bernstein's Touches.

The duo of Nicholas Ong (Malaysia)
and Kim Bo Kyung (South Korea) charmed with
En Bateau from Debussy's Petite Suite.

Michael Bulychev-Okser (Russia/USA)
offered the Humoresque from
Rachmaninov's Morceaux de Salon Op.10 

Elena Nestorenko (Russia/Germany)
gave a sneak peak to her all-Chopin recital
on 12 January with the Fantaisie-Impromptu.

Aimo Pagin (France) was most expressive
in Liszt's Petrarch Sonetto No.104. 

The festival team is introduced.

Here are the faculty members,
now joined by Eliane Reyes (Belgium)
who had just arrived from Changi Airport.

The kid needs piano instruction now!