PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA 2024 has come and gone! The showcase for young Singaporean pianistic talent took place on Saturday (13 July 2024) at the School of the Arts Concert Hall, on an evening when there were lots of other music (including Mahler's Sixth from OMM) going on. There was a decent enough house to witness almost two and a half hours of piano decadence - from Schubert to Kelly Tang - on one, two, four and eight hands.
Enough text. Here are the photographs!
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| Natalie Ng opened with two Schubert lieder transcriptions, Ave Maria and Litanei, for left hand by Frederic Meinders. |
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| Natalie by joined by Geoffrey Lim in Schubert's Fantasy in F minor. |
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| Geoffrey Lim on his own in Chopin's Ballade No.4 in F minor. |
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| Jonathan Shin speaks about his Three City Ballads, receiving its world premiere. |
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| Lin Xiangning steals a page from Yuja Wang in Mendelssohn's Variations Serieuses. |
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| Geoffrey Lim in Debussy's L'isle Joyeuse. |
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| Xiangning waxes lyrical about what she and Jonathan will perform next. |
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| Here it is, the Singapore premiere of Stravinsky's Concerto for Two Pianos. |
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| Natalie and Geoffrey perform two Astor Piazzolla tangos, Soledad and Libertango. |
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| The grand finale, with all four pianists on stage. |
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| A Singaporean work to close the evening. |
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| Kelly Tang's Symphonic Suite on a Set of Singapore Tunes, arranged by Bertram Wee. |
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| Take a bow, Jonathan, Xiangning, Natalie & Geoffrey! |
PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA 2024
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in The Straits Times here:
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