Yuanfan Yang, piano

Presented by: Oxshott and Cobham Music Society

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0	CLAYGATE: Holy Trinity Church
P	Saturday 21st October, 2023
N	7:30pm

Event information

MOZART: Piano Sonata in C, K330
LISZT: Au bord d’une source
Y YANG: Waves
FAURE: Barcarolle No 1 in A minor, Op 26
DEBUSSY: Reflets dans l’eau
LISZT: Orage
**Interval**
RACHMANINOV: Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42
CHOPIN: Selections from Preludes, Op 28
Y YANG: Improvisations on themes and styles suggested by the audience

Yuanfan Yang is an exciting young concert pianist and composer who has been hailed as a prodigy. He is currently forging an international career on both fronts after winning numerous prizes from an early age. Unusually, he is also an accomplished improviser and will include this element at the end of this recital.

Born in Edinburgh, Yuanfan began learning the piano at the age of six and passed Grade 8 with distinction at eight. He was the Keyboard Category Winner and a Grand Finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition 2012, aged 15.

Since then Yuanfan has won many awards and performed in numerous venues both in the UK and abroad. Over the past year, he has won 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at the Casagrande International Piano Competition in Italy, 2nd Prize in the Hong Kong International Piano Competition, where he made his concerto debut with Marin Alsop, and 2nd Prize plus Special Prizes for Best Classical Sonata, Best Romantic Work and Best Work by Chopin in the First Ljubljana Festival International Piano Competition in Slovenia.

Yuanfan has also won awards for his compositions from a young age, and his award-winning composition "Waves" forms part of tonight's recital.

This concert is sponsored by the Tillett Trust as part of its DEBUT programme, which aims to help young musicians of outstanding talent. The concert is also supported by our Patrons.

SAMPLE REVIEW: '...exceptionally fine for a pianist of any age...brilliantly executed, beautifully organised, breathless in its excitement and deeply affecting in its sentiments'. Stephen Wigler, International Piano Magazine



VENUE: The venue is a church with comfortable seating and excellent acoustics. Please note there are some pillars and seats are not numbered. All parts are accessible for wheelchairs.

TICKETS: Adults £22
Free for members, children, students U26 (with ID), and accompanying carers
NHS staff (with ID): £5

Tickets are available at the door or in advance