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Toru Oyama (piano) and Gwendolyn Mok (piano) play Beethoven

When
Monday February 3, 2020 at 13:10
Where
St James's Church, Piccadilly, London
Tickets
Free admission – no ticket required

  1. Sonata for Piano No 1 in F minor Op 2 No 1 - Ludwig van Beethoven
  2. Sonata for Piano No 2 in A Op 2 No 2 - Ludwig van Beethoven

Toru Oyama is a Japanese pianist who has been continually expanding his musicality and musicianship. He earned a BA in Letters (English Literature) from Keio University in Tokyo before moving to Europe, where he studied with Professor Julian Jacobson at Royal College of Music in London and at Utrecht Conservatory with Professor Alan Weiss. He is active as a recitalist, chamber musician,accompanist and concerto soloist. Toru performs all across Europe and in his native country, Japan. He also has regular concert tours in Indonesia and Malaysia. Toru performs a broad spectrum of Classical and Romantic composers, but specializes in French repertoire such as Fauré, Debussy and Ravel. While Toru is an active performer, he is dedicated to teaching talented young pianists.

He was appointed as ‘Artist in Residence’ at the Jakarta Conservatory of Music and taught the best young Indonesian pianists from October 2014 to January 2015. His artistic activities have been covered by a wide range of media, including BBC TV and The Jakarta Globe.

Gwendolyn Mok is a leading pedagogue, lecturer, soloist and highly acclaimed recording artist

Born in New York City, Ms. Mok has appeared in many of the world's leading concert halls, including the Barbican, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Davies Symphony Hall, and the Hong Kong Performing Arts Center. She is frequently invited to play and record with major international orchestras, such as the London Symphony, the Philharmonia, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra and the Residency Orchestra of the Hague.

Ms. Mok is a recording artist for Nonesuch/Elektra, Musical Heritage Society, Musician Showcase Recordings, Cala Records, and EMI. Her highly acclaimed debut CD with the Philharmonia of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G on the Cala label was nominated for an Alternative Edison award. A second Cala recording of Saint-Saëns’s 'Africa—Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra' with the London Philharmonic has been equally applauded. Three solo CDs, 'Ravel Revealed' (Ravel’s piano works) and 'Brahms: Late Piano Works' and 'Legacy, The Spirit of Beethoven' were recorded on historic pianos for the Musicians Showcase Recording label. All (3)CDs received outstanding reviews and are broadcast frequently around the world. Recently two new CDs have been released: Poldowski Art Songs with soprano Angelique Zuluaga and pianist Gwendolyn Mok on the Delos label and Ekta Trilogy, featuring Mok as soloist on Ekta II, a concerto written for her by composer Brent Heisinger.

As a chamber musician, Ms. Mok appears regularly in the San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music Series, as well as in the San Jose Chamber Society and the Sacramento Chamber Society series. She collaborates often with members of the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. A popular soloist with the Symphony Silicon Valley, Ms. Mok co-produced and appeared in four sold-out performances of The Gershwin Radio Hour. In 2016 Ms. Mok was named President’s Scholar by San Jose State University, the highest honor given to an outstanding faculty member for their scholarship and research. Mok was also presented with the Artistic Acheievement Award by the College of Humanities and the Arts in 2008.

Ms. Mok began her studies at the Juilliard School of Music, completed her undergraduate work at Yale University, and earned her Masters and Doctorate at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is currently Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at San Jose State University and maintains a busy performing and recording schedule.

Free recital with retiring collection.


Venue
St James's Church, Piccadilly
197 Piccadilly
London
London
W1J 9LL
England
@StJPiccadilly

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