RECITAL NO. 5
CHUN WANG (piano)
Saturday, 5 June, at 20:00
"... this prodigious eighteen year old ... proceeded to render the most authoritative interpretation ... His mastery of all twelve Études (Chopin, Op.25) will prove for many of us to have been the ultimate in live performance ..." – COLIN LANG, 2008
CHUN WANG, from the People's Republic of China, was born in Fuzhou in 1990. His extraordinary musical talents were noted early and he began elementary studies at the age of five and study of the piano at eight. When he was thirteen, as an exceptionally gifted student, he was enrolled at the music school attached to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing where he studied under Jin Zhang. The winner of numerous prizes in China, Chun Wang was the subject of international exposure and excitement when, at the age of fourteen, he won Third Prize at the first Franz Liszt International Piano Competition for Young Pianists in Weimar, Germany. Three years later he gained First Prize in the 2006 Villa-Lobos International Piano Competition in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the same year that he was a top finalist in the 6th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. He was only the second Chinese pianist in fifteen years to have won a prize in this prestigious Japanese contest. In 2007 he took Second Prize at the 10th Rencontre Internationale des Jeunes Pianistes in Paris and in 2008 Third Prize at the 11th Vodacom UNISA International Piano Competition in Pretoria where he was also awarded the Marc Raubenheimer Memorial Prize. Despite his youth – he is barely twenty – Chun Wang has performed professionally, to great acclaim both in recital and as soloist with orchestra, in the Ukraine, Brazil, Argentina, Morocco, France, Canada and Japan. At present he is pursuing advanced studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
"... verbysterende klavierspel ... Die konsert ... was 'n kragtoer en Chun is deurgaans met staande applous van die gehoor beloon ... verstommend." – DIE BURGER
"... this was a beautiful performance: (Chopin Piano Concerto No.1) crystal clarity in Chopin's elaborate ornamentation, subtle but distinct gradations of tone, well-judged phrasing in the gentle slow movement, a lovely limpid quality in the lyric themes, and forceful and accurate playing in the virtuoso passages ..." – Michael Green, ARTSMART
PROGRAMME
MOZART Sonata in D major, K.311 SCHUMANN Fantasy in C major, Op.17 CHOPIN Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op.35 LISZT Réminiscences de Don Juan (Original version for solo piano, written in 1841) Book online through Computicket.
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