Sept.18, 2025 - 7:30pm
(doors open 6:45pm)
Vincent Ong
Chopin Piano Recital
VINCENT ONG
Winner of the 2024 Schumann Competition
Vincent Ong, one of the great talents of the young classical music scene, opens the 2025/26 season.
Born in Malaysia in 2001, Vincent Ong began playing the piano at the age of four and discovered his passion for classical music at an early age and was encouraged by the renowned Malaysian pianist and composer Ng Chong Lim. He is currently continuing his musical education with Prof. Eldar Nebolsin at the HfM Eisler in Berlin.
His international breakthrough came in 2018 when he won the Taipei International Maestro Piano Festival. The following year, he performed Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto at the Taipei National Concert Hall, accompanied by the Taipei Philharmonic Youth Orchestra under the direction of Yao-Yu Wu. In 2020, he was awarded in the concert artist category at the Singapore International Piano Competition.
Vincent established himself as an outstanding artistic personality by winning 1st prize at the Maurice Ravel Piano Prize in 2023 and the 19th International Robert Schumann Competition in 2024.
This year, he was a guest at the Nohant Festival Chopin in France and a participant at the Lieven International Piano Foundation in Vienna.
Program:
A piano recital with works by Frédéric Chopin
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Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat major, op. 61 B.159
A late work by Chopin that oscillates between free fantasy and dance-like polonaise - at once poetically enraptured and full of inner drama. Music like an inner monologue: tender, searching, triumphant.
Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” from DON GIOVANNI
by W.A.Mozart in B flat major, op. 2 B.22
Chopin's youthful brilliance meets Mozart's operatic melody: virtuoso fireworks on the duet from Don Giovanni, which even Robert Schumann exclaimed enthusiastically: “Hats off, gentlemen, a genius!”
Fantaisie in F minor, op. 49
A passionate, visionary work that unites inner struggles and triumph in one great musical breath. Chopin's Fantasia in F minor is like an emotional drama without words - powerful, gloomy, stirring.
Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, op. 58
Chopin's last piano sonata is a masterpiece full of contrasts: from the songlike melody in the first movement to the spirited Scherzo in the second and the intimate beauty of the Largo in the third movement to the highly demanding whirlwind of the finale - a grand pianistic panorama - emotionally profound, technically demanding, musically overwhelming.