2025 CONCERTS and EVENTS
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FREYA FRANZEN (violin)
SAUL LEWIS (french horn)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
BANKS - Horn Trio
KOECHLIN - Quatre petites pièces
BRAHMS -Trio for Violin, French Horn and Piano Op.40
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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Saturday 15 MARCH 2025
KRISTIAN CHONG and FRIENDS - Concert 1
Liebeck and Chong
PRIMROSE POTTER SALON
MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE
JACK LIEBECK (violin)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
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.
SCHUBERT - Sonata for Violin and Piano in A D 574
YSAYE - Poème élégiaque for Violine and Klavier op.12
DEAN, Paul - new work
MENDELSSOHN - Songs without Words No 1 op.19 (1809-1847) (arranged for Violin & Piano by Hermann)
MENDELSSOHN - Sonata for Violin and Piano in F
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THURSDAY 10 APRIL 2025, 11am
AMEB SOUND INSIGHTS
PIANO RECITAL & LECTURE
PRIMROSE POTTER SALON
MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE
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Sound Insights offers learners the opportunity to hear Level Two piano syllabus favourites performed by concert pianist Kristian Chong. Enjoy in-depth discussions on the pieces, featuring descriptions by composer Elena Kats-Chernin, along with valuable insights designed to support and inspire developing musicians.
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Oxford May Music is a music, science and arts festival that celebrates culture and human achievements in a truly unique way. The festival's ethos of combining the very cutting edge of science alongside world-class concerts has for the last 15 years attracted visitors from all over the world. They come for the wide ranging and fascinating programmes put together by artistic director and award winning violinist Jack Liebeck and renowned particle physicist Prof. Brian Foster.
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SUNDAY 18 MAY 2025
SHOSTAKOVICH PIANO CONCERTO NO 2
CORPUS MEDICORUM,
CONDUCTOR: FABIAN RUSSELL
ELISABETH MURDOCH HALL,
MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE, AUSTRALIA
Kristian returns with Corpus Medicorum after his performance of Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 in 2023 to play Shostakovich's charming second piano concerto under the baton of Fabian Russell. The piece was written as a birthday present for Shostakovich’s nineteen-year-old son Maxim – himself an accomplished pianist. The middle movement is a heart-wrenching Andante, and on either side are two vivacious movements, both full of style and an overwhelming sense of fun. Shostakovich apparently hid all sorts of family references within the music – jokes that only he and Maxim would truly understand.
GLINKA - OVERTURE to RUSLAN and LYUDMILA
SHOSTAKOVICH PIANO CONCERTO No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY - SYMPHONY NO. 4
SUNDAY 22 JUNE 2025
SOUTH COAST MUSIC SOCIETY
CELLO and PIANO SONATAS on ICE
BATEMANS BAY, AUSTRALIA
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SIMON COBCROFT (cello)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
Simon Cobcroft is the new Associate Principal Cellist of the Sydney Symphony, former principal cellist of the Adelaide Symphony and current artistic director of the Coriole Music Festival in SA. He partners again with Kristian Chong in Sonatas by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Barber, alongside a new prize winning work for solo piano by Australian composer Tristan Coelho 'Ice Monuments', which Kristian picked as his judges choice in the Sydney International Piano Competition's 'Composing the Future' Award in 2021.
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BEETHOVEN - Sonata for Piano and Cello Op.69 in A major
BARBER - Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 6
Tristan COELHO - Ice Monuments (2021) for solo piano
MENDELSSOHN - Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2
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SATURDAY 16 AUGUST 2025
KRISTIAN CHONG and FRIENDS - Concert 2
PRIMROSE POTTER SALON,
MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE
TRIOS WITH DALE & ELINA
DALE BARLTOP (violin)
ELINA FASKHI (cello)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
REPERTOIRE TO BE CONFIRMED
The outstanding Dale Barltop (former Melbourne Symphony Concertmaster and 1st violin, Australian String Quartet) and wonderful Russian cellist Elina Faskhi (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) join Kristian in this program of exhilarating piano trios​
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SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER 2025
KRISTIAN CHONG and FRIENDS - Concert 3
PRIMROSE POTTER SALON
MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE
TRANSCRIBED SONATAS WITH TIPI
BEETHOVEN - Sonata for Piano and Horn in F (transcribed for cello and piano)
SCHUBERT - Arpeggione Sonata
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​The legendary Timo-Veikko Valve from the Australian Chamber Orchestra reunites with Kristian in these two sonatas that were not intended for performance by the cello. Beethoven's Sonata for Piano and Horn was written for the Natural Horn, and Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata was for the Arpeggione - essentially a bowed guitar! The Schubert in particular is revered and played by many other instruments, and Beethoven an early masterwork that shows vitality and vibrancy.
TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2025
SOLO PIANO RECITAL
HOBART TOWN HALL
WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2025
SOLO PIANO RECITAL
PRINCESS THEATRE, LAUNCESTON
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
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REPERTOIRE TO BE CONFIRMED
THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2025
SOLO PIANO RECITAL
BURNIE ARTS CENTRE, BURNIE, AUSTRALIA
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
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REPERTOIRE TO BE CONFIRMED