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Piano 4 Hands - Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa

When
Wednesday April 11, 2018 at 19:30
Where
Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Sixth Form Centre, Clitheroe
Tickets
£15, full time students and accompanied children, free
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  1. Andante and Variations in G, for piano 4 hands K 501 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  2. Variations on a theme of Handel, for piano 4 hands Op 144 - David Matthews
  3. Fantasie in F minor for piano 4 hands D 940; Op 103 - Franz Schubert
  4. Petite Suite, for piano 4 hands L 65 - Claude Debussy
  5. Symphony No 1 in D, 'Classical' Op 25 - Sergey Prokofiev, arranged for piano 4 hands by Waka Hasegawa
  6. La valse - Maurice Ravel, arranged for piano 4 hands by Lucien Garban

Widely regarded as one of the U.K.’s leading piano duos, Piano 4 Hands are regular performers at London’s Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre. Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa were prize winners at the 2003 Tokyo International Piano Duo Competition and at the Schubert International Competition in the Czech Republic. The duo has given recitals in Japan, Germany, Spain and the USA as well as live broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and WFMT Radio in Chicago.

Since their critically acclaimed London debut for the Park Lane Group in 2002, Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa have given a number of successful Wigmore Hall recitals promoted by the Kirckman Concert Society. Piano 4 Hands has performed at many of the major concert venues around the UK including Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, St David’s Hall Cardiff, St George’s Bristol and the Turner Sims Hall in Southampton and also at festivals such as Buxton, Cheltenham, Bury St Edmunds, Chichester, Dulwich, Guildford and York.

Piano 4 Hands debut CD of Debussy piano duets for Quartz was chosen as Album of the Week in The Independent and received 5 stars in BBC Music Magazine. Subsequent recordings of Schubert duets and piano music by John McCabe have met with similar critical acclaim including glowing reviews in the Sunday Times, Gramophone and International Record Review.

A number of composers have written new works for the duo including Dai Fujikura, Robert Keeley, Nicola LeFanu, Edwin Roxburgh and John McCabe, whose piano duet 'Upon entering a painting' they premièred at Wigmore Hall in 2009 and duet version of ‘Two scenes from Edward II’ they also premièred for City Music Society at Bishopsgate Hall in March 2013.

Their most recent collaboration is a co-commission with the Cheltenham Music Festival, funded by the Britten-Pears Foundation, of a new work for two pianos by Dai Fujikura which Piano 4 Hands premiered in July 2013 and at Wigmore Hall as part of a special programme celebrating the centenary of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa were elected Associates of the Royal Academy of Music in 2008 and have twice been selected for the Making Music Concert Promoters’ Group Scheme. They are Founders and Artistic Directors of the Bristol International Piano Duo Festival, held biennially at St George’s Bristol.


Venue
Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Sixth Form Centre
York Street
Clitheroe
Lancashire
BB7 2DJ
England

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