Music
Lunch Time Concert - September
DATE
Thu 25 Sept 2025
VENUE
Woodville Auditorium
SELECT SHOWING
Joseph Tong
Programme:
Schumann Arabesque in C Op. 18
Schubert Impromptu in B Flat D935 no 3
Sibelius 6 Impromptus Op. 5
Chopin Fantasie in F minor Op. 49
Joseph Tong has established a reputation as one of the most versatile and
imaginative pianists of his generation. Much in demand as a soloist, duo
pianist and chamber musician, Joseph made his Wigmore Hall debut in
1997 as winner of the Maisie Lewis Young Artists Award and now gives
regular recitals throughout the UK and abroad.
Joseph’s ongoing Sibelius recording project has seen three CDs released
on the Quartz label to critical acclaim. His Schumann album was
selected as Instrumental Choice in BBC Music Magazine in 2019.
Joseph has made several concert visits to Finland, including recitals at
Ainola on Sibelius’s original Steinway, the Korpo Sibelius Festival,
Camerata Hall, Helsinki and Hämeenlinna City Hall.
Other recent highlights have included recitals in Germany and Spain, at
Wigmore Hall in London,
St George’s Bristol and the Joensuu Music Festival in Finland in 2024.
Last summer, he returned to the Presteigne Festival to give the premiere
of Koivunrungot Kaarella by Lara Poe in a programme titled The Piano
in Nature, also featuring ‘Five Trees’ by David Matthews.
He is also a busy chamber musician, giving recitals with the violinist
Fenella Humphreys with whom he recorded a disc of Sibelius for the
Resonus Classics Label in 2020. The album was featured on Radio 3’s
Record Review and selected as Chamber Choice in BBC Music
Magazine.
Joseph was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM)
in 2008 and is a visiting teacher at Wells Cathedral School, Hampton
School and Junior Academy, RAM.
