Music Director/Conductor | Yip Wing-sie |
Piano | Jean-Frédéric Neuburger |
Programme
Austin Leung | Life Episode II (world première) |
Schumann | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54 |
Mozart | Serenade No 6 in D, K239, “Serenata Notturna” |
Brahms | Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Op 56a |
Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (Piano)
★★★★★ Bachtrack
“Phenomenal!”Le Monde
“Remarkably lyrical performance.”The Guardian
“Blending poetry and virtuosity…”The New York Times
“One of the extraordinary rising generation who keep threatening to take piano playing onto a new level.”Seen and Heard International
“[His Schumann Piano Concerto was] persuasive and memorable.”The Boston Musical Intelligencer
- Has performed with such conductors and orchestras as Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Pierre Boulez, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, London Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, etc
- A regular guest at prestigious festivals such as Verbier, Lucerne, La Roque d’Anthéron and Klavier-Festival Ruhr
- Winner, Young Concert Artists International Auditions, New York 2006
- Winner of four prizes at Long-Thibaud Competition, Paris 2004
- Entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris at age 13 and graduated with 5 “Premier Prix”
Austin Leung (Composer)
- The first Hong Kong composer to win the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2017
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