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“Chiyan Wong is an exciting, original and thoughtful pianist. Nothing sounds ‘bought in’; everything sounds freshly but not self-consciously conceived.” – Stephen Hough
“Chiyan Wong has a sincerity as a person which he applies to his music-making, and that is very rare these days. I am sure he will continue to grow as a real artist.” – Kun-Woo Paik
Chiyan WONG was born in Hong Kong in 1988, where he began his musical studies aged 6. He moved to the United Kingdom in 2001 to work with Norma Fisher at Chetham’s School of Music and later the Royal Northern College of Music. On the recommendation of Stephen Hough, he moved to London in 2010 to enrol at the Royal Academy of Music to study with Christopher Elton, where he completed both his Bachelor and Master degrees. Chiyan has performed in UK, Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Singapore and Hong Kong. This year, Chiyan makes his debut with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto. He is a recent laureate at the Premio Liszt in Parma and his debut commercial CD will be released in early 2017, featuring operatic transcriptions by Franz Liszt. He is grateful to the support of Lady Valerie Solti, the Lee Hysan Foundation, Mr. John Burgess, the Bernard van Zuiden Music Scholarship, the Musician’s Benevolent Fund and the Hattori Foundation.
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Júlia PUSKER was born in Hungary, where she began her violin studies at the age of five. After six years at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, she moved to England to further her studies under the guidance of György Pauk. She is in her final year at the Royal Academy of Music and at the same time, holds a Chamber Music Fellowship with her ensemble, Trio Mirage. The 2015-2016 season includes concerto appearances with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra under Zoltán Kocsis, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest String Orchestra, as well as solo recitals throughout Europe. Her violin, a Girolamo II Amati crafted in 1719, is loaned to her by the Royal Academy of Music.
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Laurent PERRIN studied the cello with G. Mallach in his native country Luxembourg, with L. Claret in Barcelona and with R. Wallfisch at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He studied chamber music with the Borodin, Melos, Takacs and Amadeus String Quartets. He was in residence at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada.
He also worked with Daniil Shafran and took part in Masterclasses with Frans Helmerson, Bernard Greenhouse, Gyorgy Sebok, Monique Deschaussees. During his studies at the Guildhall School, he won the Dorothy Adams String Quartet Competition. He has performed in China, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Macau, Europe, the USA and Canada. At present he is Assistant Principal Cello with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and teaches at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the Chinese University and Baptist University.
PROGRAM
Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio in C major, Hob. XV: 27
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Presto
Júlia Pusker (violin), Laurent Perrin (cello), Chiyan Wong (piano)
Franz Liszt
Nuages Gris, S. 199
Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata in D major, Hob XVI: 42
I. Andante con espressione
II. Vivace assai
Edvard Grieg
Solveig’s Song from Peer Gynt
Gaetano Donizetti – Franz Liszt
Réminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor, S. 397
Chiyan Wong (piano)
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