Piano 4 Hands - Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa

Widely regarded as one of the UK’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.

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's fascinating programme brought a large and appreciative audience to Wigmore Hall, an audience well rewarded with consistently excellent musicianship and playing of high technical accomplishment. (Robert Matthew-Walker in Musical Opinion November 2013).

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.