John Chen
16 May 2014 7:30 PM
John Chen remains the youngest-ever winner of the prestigious Sydney International Piano Competition, having captured that prize at the age of 18. He also captured special prizes for best performance of works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Chamber Music, and the 19th/20th Century Concerto. His Sydney win came close on the heels of his first-prize placement in the Third Lev Vlassenko Australasian Piano Competition in Brisbane the year before, a competition where he also swept all the special prizes.
In the years since, John has become one of the very few worldwide whose career has matched its auspicious competition beginnings. He has a formidable profile in Australia where he has worked with all the major orchestras, he has appeared in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, the US and Europe, and he returns each year to perform with one or more of New Zealand's top orchestras.
John is already well known to audiences at the Academy and in this concert he will be playing the following programme:
Barber - Sonata in Eb minor op 26
Beethoven - Sonata in C minor op 111
Mendelssohn - Fugue in D major, and Fugue in A major from Characteristic Pieces op. 7
Hindemith - Sonata no. 3 in Bb major (1936)
John Chen plays Rachmaninov: Etude Tableau in E-Flat minor. Op. 33 (01:45)
Tel Aviv 2011
Tickets: A Reserve $15 - $35, B Reserve $10 - $30