On Sunday 24 August the Waikanae Music Society will present award- winning young pianist Tony Yan Tong Chen.
Winner of New Zealand’s Wallace International Piano Competition in 2019, Tony, born in Auckland, has since graduated with honours from two prestigious US music schools and has placed in several International piano competitions.
In 2021 Tony’s debut album received finalist selection for Best Classical Album at the Aotearoa Music Awards.
His Waikanae concert includes sonatas by Beethoven and Chopin (the great “Funeral March” sonata). The programme will then feature the music of Scriabin with a charming Waltz, the impressive 5th Sonata and some of the popular Opus 8 Etudes.
To close will be an impassioned late-Romantic work by a little-known composer – Sergei Bortkiewicz – whose music is currently experiencing a period of enthusiastic rediscovery around the world.
Ticket information: www.waikanaemusic.org.nz or 022 345 5316