PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA 2023
Victoria Concert Hall
Saturday (22 April 2023)
So it finally happened! Piano Extravaganza 2023 took place at Victoria Concert Hall last Saturday and proved to be a feast of piano music, graced by the five of Singapore's finest young pianistic talents. Here are the photographs from that historic evening, proving that the global Covid pandemic could not stop good music, but merely delayed it. The event was dedicated to the memory of Vincent Chong, founder of MW School of Music, who presented the first Piano Extravaganza (2019) and the Young Virtuoso Recital Series before that.
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| Ukraine-born Kseniia Vokhmianina opened the evening with music by her compatriots Kosenko and Skoryk, and Chopin. |
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| B-L Piano Duo (Bertram Wee & Lynette Yeo) give the Singapore premiere of Nancarrow's Study No.7 as arranged by Thomas Ades. |
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| Cherie Khor performed Quilter-Hough Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal and Liszt's Dante Sonata. |
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| Donald Law opened the second half with Janacek's Sonata 1.X.1905 and Debussy's La plus que lente. |
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| Two sides of V.Gryaznov's transcription of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite No.2: Lynette Yeo and... |
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| ... Bertram Wee. |
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| Kseniia, Donald and Cherie lap up 6-hands works by Rachmaninov: the Romance and Waltz. Note that Kseniia is now dressed in Ukrainian colours! |
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| Husband and wife play together for once! |
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| Kelly Tang's Symphonic Suite on a Set of Local Tunes as arranged for 10-hands by Bertram Wee received its World Premiere. |
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| Young virtuosos, take a bow! |
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| The pianists with H.E Ms Kateryna Zelenko, ambassador of Ukraine to Singapore (seated) and Khoong Shok Meng, widow of Vincent Chong |
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| A busy meet-and-greet concluded the evening's event. |
Two reviews of this concert
can be found here:
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