Part of Piccadilly Piano Festival at St James's.
Doors 7pm. Event 7:30pm-8:45pm (no interval).
“... the most thoughtful, elegant and refined of pianists... one of those marvellous concerts where everything seemed to illuminate everything else.” THE GUARDIAN
Exploration, insight and imagination are vital ingredients in Melvyn Tan’s blend of artistic attributes. He established his international reputation in the 1980s with pioneering performances on fortepiano, and continues to cast fresh light on music conceived for the piano’s early and modern forms.
Melvyn’s work as recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist has been heard at many of the world’s leading concert halls: the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, AMUZ in Belgium, London’s Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall, New York’s Lincoln Center, and at major festivals including Salzburg, Edinburgh, La Roque d’Anthéron as well as Bath’s Mozartfest, City of London Festival and Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival.
As a concerto soloist, Melvyn has performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Camerata and Mozarteum Orchestras, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Melbourne Symphony, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, and Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Melvyn has connected with audiences across China and Southeast Asia, introducing many to their first experience of fortepiano and attracting young people to attend recitals on early and modern pianos. Others have discovered his work through his large discography, complete with ground-breaking fortepiano recordings of concertos by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert’s Impromptus for EMI Classics, and releases on the Archiv, Deux-Elles, Harmonia Mundi, NMC and Virgin Classics labels. His latest recording, ‘Miroirs’ (Onyx Classics 2019) embraces three centuries of keyboard style and traces some of the inspirations for Ravel’s ground-breaking works for piano, hailed by The Times as a “fascinating disc”. On his CD of Beethoven, Czerny and Liszt – Master and Pupil (Onyx Classics 2016), The Sunday Times commented that “The progression is from marvellousness to absolute delectation. His playing is always exquisite, but much more than that.”