Alexander Yau Plays Beethoven Ravel and Liszt
May 24 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
2025 marks an important year for Alexander in which he has commenced his position as Associate Lecturer in Collaborative Piano Faculty at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Alexander has performed major concertos including those of Rachmanninpf and Brahms in with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the SBS Youth Orcgestra and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. He has performed chamber music and solo recitals at the Lincoln Centre NYC, Villa Reale and Teatre Commune di Atri in Italy, in Grieg’s home in Bergen, Oslo, Takamatsu, Canberra Music Festival, the Phoenix Central Park and City Recital Hall in Sydney. In 2022 he released his first album in collaboration with clarinettist Deborah de Graff, featuring his own compositions and works by other Australian composers. Alexander is also a fine clarinetist, vocalist, composer, music arranger and conductor. He and pianist Ching Pong (Dono) Ng, co-founded the Nikolai Medtner Chamber Orchestra, where Alexander conducted the Shostakovich Piano Concerto no. 1 and Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings at its inaugural concert.
The program: Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata no. 13 in E-flat major Op. 27 no. 1 “Sonata quasi Fantasia” / Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor Op. 27 no. 2 “Moonlight” / Maurice Ravel Gaspard de la nuit /
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Franz Liszt Harmonies Poétiques et religieuses, S. 173 – Funerailles, – Benediction de dieu sans la solitude, Années de pèlerinage, Year 2 Italy, S. 161, – Sonetti 104 del Petrarca, – Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata
Alexander Yau, piano.
The performance runs for approximately 100 minutes, inclusive of a 15-minute interval