
The Age
'Kristian Chong is a pianist of impressive talent and sensitivity...'
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'...a true chamber musician at work...'
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Limelight Magazine
'The soloist, Kristian Chong, was nothing short of brilliant, giving a heartfelt performance of extraordinary beauty and sensitivity with finely controlled expression, tempi and touch.
The Adelaide Advertiser
'This was playing with finesse and strength in the best proportions' -
LATEST REVIEWS and ARTICLES
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Review: THE AGE: Majestic Celebrations: Kristian Chong & Friends 9 November 2024 NEW
Review: MAGAZINE: Kristian Chong & Sophie Rowell (Musica Viva Tasmania) 31 Oct 2023
Review: MAGAZINE: Caitlin Hulcup, Fiona Sargeant and Kristian Chong 3 Oct 2023
Review: ADELAIDE ADVERTISER: Li-Wei Qin & Kristian Chong - 9 July 2023
Review: INDAILY: Coriole Music Festival 2023
Meet the performers! Interview for Coriole Music Festival in May 2023
Review: MAGAZINE: War and Peace, Canberra Symphony Orchestra - 15 Sept 2022 - Malcolm Williamson's Piano Concerto No.2
Australian pianist, Kristian Chong announced as YAMAHA Artist - 19 April 2022
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Review: THE AGE: Great Performers Series lives up to its name - 14 Feb 2022
Composing the Future; Sydney International Piano Competition - panel announced
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UPCOMING CONCERTS
THURS 12 AUGUST 2021
SUN 9 FEBRUARY 2025 - 11am
Don BANKS - Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano
KOECHLIN - Quatre petites pièces
BRAHMS - Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano Op.40
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The combination of French horn, violin and piano creates a versatile sound-world, radiating robust warmth, impressive power and delicate subtlety.
This intimate performance features three works for this delightful trio in a program inspired by the late Barry Tuckwell, a Melbourne-born horn player who became one of the world’s most recorded horn soloists.
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SAT 15 MARCH 2025 - 7pm
SCHUBERT - Sonata for Violin and Piano in A D 574
YSAYE - Poème élégiaque for Violine and Klavier op.12
DEAN, Paul - new work (world premiere)
MENDELSSOHN - Songs without Words No 1 op.19 (arranged for Violin & Piano by Hermann)
MENDELSSOHN - Sonata for Violin and Piano in F
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UK violinist Jack Liebeck is one is the leading violinists worldwide, and is artistic director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. He is the Émile Sauret Professor of Violin at the Royal Academy of Music, and has performed with many leading orchestras as soloist including all of the major UK orchestras, as well as the Melbourne Symphony, Queensland Symphony. He reunites with pianist Kristian Chong in iconic works of Schubert, Ysaye, Mendelssohn alongside a world premiere by Paul Dean, written for Jack.
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PRIMROSE POTTER SALON
SAT 22 MARCH 2025, 730pm
BEETHOVEN PIANO CONCERTO NO.3 in C MINOR
ZELMAN MEMORIAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
KRISTIAN CHONG - piano
RICK PRAKHOFF - conductor
BEETHOVEN - Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor
SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony No. 5 Op.47
Kristian returns to the Zelman Symphony with conductor Rick Prakhoff in Beethoven's dramatic C minor Piano Concerto. This is the youthful Beethoven at his most spiritual and profound, with the key of C minor already definitively connected as a key related to foreboding and angst.
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JAMES TATOULIS AUDITORIUM, METHODIST LADIES COLLEGE, MELBOURNE