Hanover Square Lunchtime Concert: Yuanwei Ping

Today's Hanover Square Lunchtime Concert is given by Yuanwei Ping, piano, who will perform the following programme.

Busoni - Orgelchoralvorspiele von Johann Sebastian Bach:

No. 7a 'Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt' BWV 637

No. 7b 'Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt' Fuga BWV 705

JS Bach arr. Alan Weiss - Prelude & Fugue in D minor BWV 539

Busoni - Orgelchoralvorspiele von Johann Sebastian Bach No. 5 'Ich ruf‘ zu dir Herr Jesus Christus' BWV 639

Liszt - Praeludium nach J. S. Bach 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen‘ S. 179

Liszt - Variationen über das Motiv von Bach S. 180

As ever admission is free with a retiring collection.

Yuanwei is an RCM studentship holder, working towards his PhD degree in the Royal College of Music. In 2017 Yuanwei obtained his Master of Performance degree from the Royal College of Music and the Artist Diploma in Piano Performance in the following year, under the guidance of Norma Fisher and Ashley Wass. Yuanwei is a Leverhulme Arts Scholar and was supported by Ms Jean Cater and Professor Gordon Marshall during his Artist Diploma study at the Royal College of Music. In 2019 Yuanwei obtained his Master of Arts in Musicology degree from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Yuanwei started on the undergraduate programme at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht in the Netherlands studying with Alan Weiss, receiving maximum honours in his final exam in 2015. As a pianist, Yuanwei has given concerts in The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, UK, USA, and China. Following an audition in 2012 at the Utrecht Conservatory, Yuanwei played for Maestro Arcadi Volodos who praised him as ‘a very fine young pianist’ after the masterclass.

When he was younger, Yuanwei studied the Suo’Na (a Chinese folk instrument) and jazz percussion with his father. In recent years Yuanwei has also enjoyed a career as a freelance photographer.

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