'Visions Virtuosic' - Julian Chan's Interview Concert

Name: 'Visions Virtuosic' - Julian Chan's Interview Concert
Start: 2026-05-24T14:45:00+01:00
Location: St Symphorian's Durrington Hill

Schedule

Sun, 24 May, 2026 at 02:45 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

St Symphorian's Durrington Hill | Worthing, EN

St Symphorian’s Durrington Hill – Worthing BN13 2PU
2.45pm (doors 2.15, concert duration 2½ hours) finish 5.15pm
Parking is free everywhere – on site, surrounding streets, Manor Parade precinct for 3hrs
(scroll down for venue information, directions, public transport)
Sunday 24 May
£15 Adult / £13 Adult with Under-19(s) / £2 Under-19 / £5 Under-36 / £13 members of Worthing Symphony Society, Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra, Worthing Choral Society or Boundstone Chorus
Tickets online or at the door (cash preferred)
Seating is unreserved – do arrive in good time to choose your seat
To prevent disruption, latecomers may have to wait for admission
Wheelchair access. Users: do book online, adding (Wh) to your name, so we can prepare your space. If you are booking for a carer, please add (Ca) to their name.
Sips ’n’ Nibbles available pre-show and interval
OUR EVENT
Full live performance, In The Round, interviewing conversations, audience interaction in the ‘Ask A Question’, ‘Mystery Music’ and ‘What's The Story?’ features
Guest Interviewer
‘Visions Virtuosic’ programme, but not in running order:
Schubert – Piano Sonata in C minor D958
Beethoven – Piano Sonata in F# major Op78
Chopin – Ballade No 2 in F major
Godowsky – Java Suite selection
Alkan – ‘Aesop’s Feast’
‘VISIONS VIRTUOSIC’
Virtuosos need to be poets as well as performers on the high wire, at the edge of what’s humanly possible. Julian’s also bringing verse, rhythm, nuance and beauty, in music of multiple vision, purpose and expression.
You thought Lang Lang and Yuja Wang were the daring ones? (or Marc-André Hamelin, or Bruce Liu?) Then meet Julian Chan! By the time he’s with us on 24 May, he’ll have played Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concertos No 1 and No 2 with Worthing’s marvellous two orchestras, the Philharmonic and the Symphony.
WHERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE MUSIC
In the posts to come in the ‘Discussion’ section of this event page and on our main Facebook page, check out more about
Julian’s biography
His ‘Visions Virtuosic music
Reviews of his solo and concerto concerts
Here's a general review clip for starters:
from SE Asian tour recital and masterclass, October 2025
• “What an inspiring evening with pianist Julian Chan! Such accuracy, depth, and elegance in every note — music that lingers long after the final note.” – Johor Bahru, Malaysia
LOCATION
St Symphorian’s is on the left-hand side, immediately north of the mini roundabout at the New Road/Salvington Road/Durrington Hill crossroads. There’s acres of parking, all of it free – on site, on surrounding streets, and also in and behind Manor Parade shops precinct off Salvington Road (for 3hrs).
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Our 2.45pm start time (doors 2.15) and 5.15 finish enables bus travellers to catch the Stagecoach No 5 back to Worthing at 5.38pm and 6.33pm from the Manor Parade bus stop 3 minutes away. It’s a 20min ride from Worthing town centre in a half-hourly service. Outward journey from Worthing town centre: from South Street stop J.
Train travellers can pick up the No 5 at Worthing station. Or from Durrington station the No 700 (four buses an hour) goes from nearby Strand Shops (the stop on The Boulevard) to the Durrington Health Centre stop. This leaves you an 800m walk north along Durrington Lane to St Symphorian’s Durrington Hill, just beyond the crossroads mini-roundabout by Pond Lane Recreation ground.
WHAT ACTUALLY IS AN INTERVIEW CONCERT?
• It’s a full concert musical performance – plus conversations with the Host and a Guest Interviewer, meaning you meet the artistes, discovering their views and thoughts – and not just musical ones.
• There are our own added features. If you like, you can ‘Ask A Question’, submitting it during the interval. Others exercise your imagination: you can make a suggestion in ‘Give It A Title’. Or they exercise your memory or intuition, such as Mystery Music’ or ‘Guess The Composer’. This time we’ve a new feature called ‘What’s The Story?’
• ‘Set In The Round’ means everyone’s closer to the action, connected – and inspired. Including the attentive children you can bring for just £2 each. More seats viewing the piano keyboard. You can pick your own seat once you’re in. Unlike normally seated concerts, the back row is very much nearer the action.
• You’ll feel a kindred spirit in the interaction among everyone there ,sharing this concert experience just like you.
See how recent concerts have looked on our Facebook page posts after the May and November ones
https://www.facebook.com/TheInterviewConcerts
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The International Interview Concerts are a very small non-profit organisation under its own charity - ‘International Music in Performance and Education Foundation’. (Reg no 1185748)