Russian Colours

Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano excerpt
Rachmaninoff Prelude Op 23 No 5 in G minor excerpt
Stravinsky Divertimento (after The Fairy's Kiss) excerpt
Tchaikovsky Souvenir d'un lieu cher excerpt
Sam Haywood, pianist
Tang Tee Khoon, violinist
Live Recording 'Russian Colours' 2014
Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore
by Rolton Productions
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SAM HAYWOOD
Sam Haywood regularly appears in many of the world’s major concert halls. The Washington Post hailed his ‘dazzling, evocative playing’ and ‘lyrical sensitivity’ and the New York Times his ‘passionate flair and sparkling clarity’. He embraces a wide spectrum of the piano repertoire and is equally at home as soloist and chamber musician. He has had a duo partnership with Joshua Bell since 2010 and has often performed with cellist Steven Isserlis.
After his early success in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, he went on to study in Vienna with Paul Badura-Skoda. His recordings include two critically-acclaimed solo albums for Hyperion Records and an album of Chopin’s music performed on the composer’s own Pleyel instrument. He is the Artistic Director of the UK’s annual Solent Music Festival and this year curated a series of concerts, broadcast on BBC radio, for the Leeds International Chamber Music Season. He is also a composer and the inventor of memorystars®, an aid for memorising music.
TANG TEE KHOON
Described as ‘a chamber musician of the highest order’, and a ‘national treasure’, her playing as ‘truly transcendent’, Tang Tee Khoon was named one of the 40 under 40 faces to watch by Prestige Singapore. She is the second-ever violinist to be awarded the loan of a J.B. Guadagnini violin c. 1750 by the National Arts Council in Singapore from 2009-2017.
Tee Khoon performs internationally as a recitalist and a chamber musician and has collaborated with musicians such as Midori, Hsin-Yun Huang, Ian Swenson, and members of the Emerson, Takács and Borromeo String Quartets. Her festival appearances include Seiji Ozawa’s International Music Academy in Switzerland and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove U.K..
Tang Tee Khoon mentored with Donald Weilerstein in Boston and David Takeno in London U.K.