3pm (after the 2pm AGM)

Thursday 28th February 2019

AGM Piano Concert


Thomas Ang


Venue: LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church
please use the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or Church Street/Waitrose
car parks, about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC in Church Road


Season Sponsor:
Julie West Solicitor

Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert &
Arts Society
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Programme

Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)
Sonata Romantica in Bb minor Op 53 No 1 (1929-1930)

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Etude in B flat minor Op 8 No 11 (1894)

Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin (b1937)
Piano Sonata no 6 Op 62 (1991)


Concert duration: 45-50 minutes
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available BEFORE this concert.
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Thomas Ang

Thomas is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School under Andrew West and Eugene Asti, having previously studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Hamish Milne and Diana Ketler. He has won prizes for his performances of Beethoven, Frederick Delius, Arthur Bliss and the contemporary piano repertoire.

In other chamber groups he maintains a strong interest in unusual repertoire of the late Romantic, as well as mid-20th-century British music. He has also earned recognition as a specialist in the music of Nikolai Kapustin, having played and conducted world premieres of his compositions in the UK, Singapore, Australia and Taiwan.

Off the concert stage, Thomas works as a répétiteur and ballet pianist. He sometimes accompanies and improvises for silent film, having performed at the Barbican Cinema in Erotikon by Gustav Machatý. Thomas also plays the violin, and writes poetry and piano transcriptions of songs and symphonies.
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Concert at Home

If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the video buttons below:
Nikolai Medtner
Sonata Romantica in Bb minor Op 53 No 1

The performer in our opening work is Boris Berezovsky, playing a Steinway in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire:
 
Alexander Scriabin
Etude in B flat minor Op 8 No 11

Semra Amiraslan is the pianist in this next short piece. She comes from Azerbaijan and, after gaining her Bachelors' degree at Manhattan School of Music is currently pursuing her Masters at New York University Steinhardt:

Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin (b1937)
Piano Sonata no 6 Op 62 (1991)

I hope you'll forgive the visuals on this one, because the performer is the composer himself, Nikolai Kapustin.
Hold tight for a jazzy ride:

We hope you have enjoyed your  Concert at Home.
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