2024 CONCERTS and EVENTS
BRIGID COLERIDGE (violin)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
Alma MAHLER - Laue Sommernacht arr. for violin and piano by Merz Trio
BACH - Sonata for Violin and Cembalo in A BWV 1015
BEETHOVEN - Sonata for Piano and Violin Op.96 in G
This stunning program for violin and piano features one of Beethoven’s most elusive, stunning and original Sonatas; one of his most serene, and yet witty and extraordinarily conversational. To lead us there is an arrangement of one of Alma Mahler’s most heartfelt, timeless and rich works ‘Laue Sommernacht’; this can only be under described as ‘beautiful’! And opening this concert is one of Bach’s exciting Sonatas for violin and Cembalo.
Wine available for purchase at the event.
JAMES CUDDEFORD (violin)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
Austrailan violinist and composer James Cuddeford is the concertmaster of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and a previous member of the Australian and Grainger String Quartets. He reunites with pianist Kristian Chong in iconic works of Beethoven, Debussy and Brahms, alongside the world premiere of his work 'Fisherman's Song' with some solo piano Rachmaninoff Preludes in Shaw Auditorium, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
BEETHOVEN - Sonata for Piano & Violin Op. 12 no.2 in A
James CUDDEFORD - Fisherman’s Song (world premiere)
DEBUSSY – Sonata for Violin and Piano in G
Miriam HYDE arr. Noreen STOKES - Rhapsody for Left Hand (for Kristian Chong)
RACHMANINOFF - Prelude op.32 no. 10 in B minor
RACHMANINOFF - Prelude op.23 no. 4 in D major
BRAHMS - Sonata for Violin & Piano Op.108 in D minor
SHAW AUDITORIUM, HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, HONG KONG
SULKI YU (violin)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
BEETHOVEN - Sonata for Piano and Violin Op.30/3 in G
STRAUSS - Sonata for Violin and Piano Op.18
This stunning Sonata program for violin and piano features two virtuosic works; the first is Beethoven's sprightly and lively Sonata Op.30 no.3. This is paired with Richard Strauss's epic Sonata written in 1888 and widely considered one of the most passionate and rich works for violin and piano. 1888 was the year Strauss first met the soprano Pauline de Ahna, whom he would later marry, and it is not hard to hear suggestions of romantic ardor in the lush lyricism of the work. Joining Kristian is the concertmaster of Orchestra Victoria, Sulki Yu, an accomplished, sparkling and brilliant performer who has recently moved in Melbourne from London.
SULKI YU (violin)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
BEETHOVEN - Sonata for Piano and Violin Op.30/3 in G
STRAUSS - Sonata for Violin and Piano Op.18
This stunning Sonata program for violin and piano features two virtuosic works; the first is Beethoven's sprightly and lively Sonata Op.30 no.3. This is paired with Richard Strauss's epic Sonata written in 1888 and widely considered one of the most passionate and rich works for violin and piano. 1888 was the year Strauss first met the soprano Pauline de Ahna, whom he would later marry, and it is not hard to hear suggestions of romantic ardor in the lush lyricism of the work. Joining Kristian is the concertmaster of Orchestra Victoria, Sulki Yu, an accomplished, sparkling and brilliant performer who has recently moved in Melbourne from London.
SOPHIE ROWELL (violin)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
In this charming sonata (now usually called a Sonatina) the nineteen-year-old Schubert appears to have been channelling the style of Mozart rather than that of his contemporary hero, Beethoven. The silent desolate landscape of Stanhope builds to an intense climax before returning to a renewed and altered form of stillness, and we conclude with Ravel’s highly original work in which he accentuated what he considered to be the essential “incompatibility” of the violin and piano, using new-to-Paris American blues and jazz inspirations.
SCHUBERT - Sonatina for Violin & Piano in G minor D384
Paul STANHOPE - Agnus Dei (After the Fire)
RAVEL - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 (Blues)
ELDER HALL, ELDER CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA
23 July 2024
HANSON DYER SERIES - UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Beethoven, Boulanger and Britten with Narroway and Chong
RICHARD NARROWAY (cello)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
BEETHOVEN - Sonata for Piano and Cello Op.5 No. 2 in G minor
Nadia BOULANGER - Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
BRITTEN - Sonata for Cello and Piano Op.65
Accomplished Australian cellist Richard Narroway teams up with Kristian in works by Beethoven, Boulanger and Benjamin Britten. The Beethoven is one of the most virtuosic and dramatic Sonatas that exists, and is paired alongside French composer Nadia Boulanger, who was teacher, conductor, early music pioneer and trusted adviser to the likes of Stravinsky and Poulenc amongst many others. And Benjamin Britten is a fitting conclusion as an exciting, energetic and wonderful work not heard enough.
HANSON DYER HALL, MELBOURNE CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC, AUSTRALIA
5 SEPTEMBER 2024
KRISTIAN CHONG and FRIENDS - Concert 2
QUARTET FOR THE END OF TIME
DALE BARLTOP (violin)
PHILIP ARKINSTALL (clarinet)
JOSEPHINE VAINS (cello)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
MESSIAEN - Quartet for the End of Time
An all star cast of Dale Barltop (former Melbourne Symphony Concertmaster and 1st violin, Australian String Quartet), Philip Arkinstall (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra) and wonderful cellist Joesphine Vains with Kristian go through one of the most extraordinary works written in the twentieth century, Messian's Quartet for the End of Time. Composed in a prisoner of War camp in World War II, the musical journey of this encapsulates every gamut of human emotion, from elation, love, death and despair, along with everything else inbetween.
10 SEPTEMBER 2024
GEELONG COLLEGE - SOLO RECITAL
Schubert's Last Sonata
CHOPIN - Nocturne Op.15 No.2 in F sharp major
SCHUBERT - Sonata in B flat major D960
KEITH HUMBLE CENTRE, GEELONG COLLEGE, GEELONG, AUSTRALIA
A solo recital featuring one of the greatest works written for solo piano by Schubert, his last piano sonata.
14 SEPTEMBER 2024
WAMA DUNKELD
Violin and Piano Recital with Sulki Yu
SULKI YU (violin)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
MOZART - Sonata for Piano and Violin K454 in B flat
RAVEL - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 (Blues)
BRENT MILLER (percussion)
LOUISE DEVINISH (percussion)
ROBERT COSSOM (percussion)
LARA WILSON (percussion)
DONALD NICHOLSON (piano)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
CRUMB - Makrocosmos III
STRAVINSKY - Rite of Spring
HANSON DYER HALL, MELBOURNE CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC, AUSTRALIA
Join pianists Donald Nicolson and Kristian Chong and percussionists Brent Miller, Louise Devenish, Lara Wilson, Robert Cossom, and percussion students from the Conservatorium, as they bring you a thrilling double bill of music for pianos and percussion. George Crumb's fantastical Makrokosmos III is paired with Stravinsky's four hand transcription of his Rite of Spring, superimposed with the original percussion parts to provide a freshly scintillating experience.
9 NOVEMBER 2024
KRISTIAN CHONG & FRIENDS Concert 3
MAJESTIC CELEBRATIONS
BRIGID COLERIDGE (violin)
NICOLAS FLEURY (french horn)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
LIGETI - Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano
BRAHMS - Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano Op.40
Ligeti wrote his formidable trio in 1982, as a companion to Brahms’ Horn Trio - one of the few other examples in the genre, marked Hommage à Brahms, and is a wild journey through its four movements, delivering every gamut of human emotion like its counterpart. Brahms’ trio is one of the canonic works of the chamber music repertoire, showing the vulnerability of human emotion in every way from love, despair, grief and triumph over all.
Principal Horn of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Nicolas Fleury, acclaimed Melbourne born violinist Brigid Coleridge from the US-based Merz Trio and Kristian provide a rare chance to hear these companion works played by three consummate musicians.
16 DECEMBER 2024
BRAHMS
CHRISTOPHER MOORE (viola)
PHILIP ARKINSTALL (clarinet)
KRISTIAN CHONG (piano)
BRAHMS - Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Op. 120 No. 1 in F minor
BRAHMS - Sonata for Viola and Piano Op. 120 No. 2 in E flat major
TEMPO RUBATO, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
