28 September 2024 @ 11:00 am
Free Admission – 11am start – Please book your place to give us an idea of numbers
Neo Hung opens this season’s Piano Series with a free masterclass, playing excerpts from and discussing his programme for the evening recital, which will include works by Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt. This is an ideal opportunity for aspiring pianists to meet and observe a young professional at the top of his craft. Tell all your keyboard playing friends!
Neo Hung began to learn the piano at the age of six in Hong Kong. He gave his first solo piano recital at the age of thirteen. At fifteen, he began to study at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with Julie Kuok and is currently studying piano with Dina Parakhina at the Royal College of Music in London, with a full scholarship awarded by the HKSAR government for both his outstanding academic and artistic performances since 2024. Neo made his concerto debut at the Music Fest Perugia with Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1 under Alessandro Alonzi in 2023. He has also performed at the Amalfi Coast Music Festival, Malaga Piano Festival, RCM Keyboard Festival and SonataFest. Neo toured England recently, with solo recitals in London, Bath, Bedford, Bristol, Bushey, Cambridge, High Wycombe and Oxford.
In 2023, Neo was a prizewinner in the Liszt Society International Piano Competition in London, chaired by the renowned pianist Leslie Howard. He also received an honorary mention in the final round of the Festival Internacional de Piano in Malaga in 2023. Neo also won prizes in the tenth Zhongsin International Music Competition, the fifth Japan-Hong Kong International Music Competition and the Internationaler Bonn Klassik Klavierwettbewerb.
His recital programme will be:
- Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E major Op.109
- Liszt: Les Jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este
- Liszt: Variations on a Theme by Bach S.180
- Schubert/Liszt: Lieder transcriptions:
- Auf dem Wasser zu singen S.558/2
- Ave Maria S.558/12
- Ständchen S.560/7
- Die Forelle S.564
- Der Müller und der Bach S.565/2
- Liszt: Three Sonnets from Années de Pèlerinage II
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