Tang Tee Khoon, violinist
Jessica Thompson, violist
Giovanni Gnocchi, cellist
Luca Buratto, pianist
Live Recording 'The Poetry in Life ~ Schumann, Adès, Brahms' 19 May 2018 Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore by Rolton Productions
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Tang Tee Khoon
Described as ‘a chamber musician of the highest order’, and a ‘national treasure’, and her playing as ‘truly transcendent’, Tee Khoon was named one of the 40 under 40 faces to watch by Prestige Singapore. She was the second-ever violinist to be awarded the loan of a J.B. Guadagnini violin by the National Arts Council in Singapore.
Tee Khoon performs internationally as a recitalist and a chamber musician and has collaborated with musicians such as Midori, Hsin-Yun Huang, Colin Carr, Ian Swenson, and members of the Emerson, Takács and Borromeo String Quartets. Her festival appearances include Seiji Ozawa’s International Music Academy in Switzerland and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove U.K..
Jessica Thompson
Violist Jessica Thompson is a passionate chamber musician who performs regularly throughout the United States and abroad as a member of the Daedalus Quartet. Praised by the New Yorker as “a fresh and vital young participant in what is a golden age of American string quartets,” Daedalus has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Library of Congress and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Abroad, the quartet has appeared in leading venues in Vienna, Cologne, Amsterdam, Paris, Tokyo, and Shanghai; and won awards including the Grand Prize of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition, and the 2007 Guarneri String Quartet Award from Chamber Music America.
In addition to her appearances with the Daedalus Quartet, Ms. Thompson has performed at the Aspen, Taos, Marlboro, Portland Chamber Music, and Newport Music Festivals. She currently teaches at Princeton University and Columbia University.
Giovanni Gnocchi
Salzburg-based Italian cellist GiovanniGnocchi made his debut as soloist in concerttogether with Yo-Yo Ma, who said: “awonderfully talented cellist, who will make avaluable contribution to music wherever he goes”.
Gnocchi’s solo engagements include performances under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, Christopher Hogwood, Carlo Rizzi, Pavle Despalj, Daniel Cohen; at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Woche Salzburg, and Essen Philharmonie.
Winner of the 1st Prize in the ‘F. J. Haydn’ Competition Vienna, and recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in London, Gnocchi’s chamber music partners of recent seasons include Leonidas Kavakos, members of the Hagen Quartet, Elizabeth Leonskaja, Pekka Kuusisto, Gordan Nikolic, Alexander Lonquich and Ilya Gringolts. Other recent engagements include his debut at the Lucerne Festival, appearances at Ark-Nova Concert Hall Japan, Ljubljana Cello Festival Slovenia, Rovigo Cello Festival, Ilumina Festival Brazil, and Delft Music Festival Holland.
Gnocchi currently serves as Professor at the Universität Mozarteum of Salzburg.
Luca Buratto
Since winning the 2015 Honens International Piano Competition, Luca Buratto’s debut recitals at Wigmore and Carnegie Halls have led him to be praised as “a name to watch” by The Guardian U.K. and a “no ordinary virtuoso” by The Telegraph. In March 2018, Buratto made his recital debut at Konzerthaus Berlin and he followed this with a performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto op. 16 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall in April.
Buratto’s season of solo engagements include performances with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi (La Scala, Milan), Toronto Symphony and Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Equally at home on the recital stage, the concert hall and in chamber music, Buratto’s festival appearances and residencies include at Progetto Martha Argerich at the Lugano Festival Switzerland, Busoni Festivals Italy, Marlboro Music Festival USA, and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival Canada.
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