Photographs from PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA 2023

 

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.

Ukraine-born Kseniia Vokhmianina 
opened the evening with music by her
compatriots Kosenko and Skoryk, and Chopin.

B-L Piano Duo (Bertram Wee & Lynette Yeo)
give the Singapore premiere of
Nancarrow's Study No.7
as arranged by Thomas Ades.

Cherie Khor performed 
Quilter-Hough Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
and Liszt's Dante Sonata.

Donald Law opened the second half
with Janacek's Sonata 1.X.1905
and Debussy's La plus que lente.

Two sides of V.Gryaznov's transcription of
Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite No.2:
Lynette Yeo and...

... Bertram Wee.

Kseniia, Donald and Cherie
lap up 6-hands works by Rachmaninov:
the Romance and Waltz.
Note that Kseniia is now
dressed in Ukrainian colours!

Husband and wife play together for once!

Kelly Tang's Symphonic Suite
on a Set of Local Tunes
as arranged for 10-hands by Bertram Wee
received its World Premiere.

Young virtuosos, take a bow!

The pianists with H.E Ms Kateryna Zelenko,
ambassador of Ukraine to Singapore (seated).

A busy meet-and-greet
concluded the evening's event.

Two reviews of this concert 

can be found here:

pianomania: PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA 2023: Two Reviews from Singapore's Youngest Music Critics (pianofortephilia.blogspot.com)

PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA 2023: A SPECIAL PIANO RECITAL NOT TO BE MISSED!

PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA 2023 returns after a hiatus of four years. It remains Singapore's foremost showcase of the best young local pianistic talents. This year, the spotlight is shorn on pianists Donald Law, Cherie Khor, Kseniia Vokhmianina and B-L Piano Duo (Bertram Yeo and Lynette Yeo), who will perform a diverse programme of piano works for 2, 4, 6 and 10 hands, including several Singapore premieres and a World Premiere!

Programme:

KOSENKO Etude in B minor "Gavotte" 

SKORYK Waltz in A minor

CHOPIN Etude in A flat major, Op.10 No.10

CHOPIN Waltz in A minor, Op.34 No.2

CHOPIN Polonaise in A flat major, Op.53 "Heroic"

  KSENIIA VOKHMIANINA, Piano

NANCARROW-ADES Study No.7

  B-L PIANO DUO: 

  BERTRAM WEE & LYNETTE YEO

QUILTER-HOUGH 

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

LISZT Dante Sonata

   CHERIE KHOR, Piano

JANACEK Sonata.V.X.1905 "From the Street"

DEBUSSY La que plus lent

  DONALD LAW, Piano

RAVEL-ADES Daphnis et Chloe Suite No.2

  B-L PIANO DUO:

  BERTRAM WEE & LYNETTE YEO

RACHMANINOV Waltz and Romance 

for piano 6 hands

 DONALD LAW, CHERIE KHOR 

 & KSENIIA VOKHMIANINA

KELLY TANG Symphonic Suite on a Set of Local tunes 

for 10 hands on 2 pianos, 

arranged by BERTRAM WEE

  BERTRAM WEE, LYNETTE YEO, 

  DONALD LAW, KSENIIA VOKHMIANINA

  & CHERIE KHOR

When: Saturday, 22 April 2023

Where: Victoria Concert Hall, 7.30 pm

Tickets available at SISTIC:

PIANO EXTRAVAGANZA 2023 [G] | SISTIC

As featured in The Straits Times

As seen in Lianhe Zaobao

Rehearsal Photos

Kseniia, Donald and Cherie
work on Rachmaninov's Romance & Waltz
for piano six hands.

Now that Bertram & Lynette have arrived,
the five pianists practise on 
Kelly Tang's Symphonic Suite on Local Tunes.

You're never too young to
appreciate piano music!