Tiffany Poon: Alkan, Debussy, Rameau & Ravel
Sample a French music feast from a rising-star pianist known for her intelligent musicianship and winning new audiences through social media.
Tiffany Poon’s extraordinary international following brought her latest album a remarkable 10 million streams, propelling it to number one on Apple Music Classical across four continents.
The Hong Kong–born New Yorker entered the Juilliard School’s pre-college programme aged only eight. Today, she juggles her career with vlogging, giving her several hundred thousand YouTube subscribers glimpses behind the scenes of her life as a pianist, complete with the agony and ecstasy of performing.
Poon devotes today’s programme to French works, including music by one of the most eccentric and challenging pianist-composers of his day, Charles-Valentin Alkan, a contemporary of Liszt.
The dreamy world of Debussy’s Arabesques and the tremulous seascape of Ravel’s ‘Une barque sur l’océan’ (A boat on the ocean) promise to be further highlights.
Performers
Tiffany Poon piano
Repertoire
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Rameau: Les tendres plaintes from Suite in D, RCT.3; Les sauvages from Suite in G major/minor, RCT.6; La poule from Suite in G major/minor, RCT.6; Le rappel des oiseaux from Suite in E minor, RCT.2
Alkan: Le festin d'Esope (Etude, Op.39 No.12)
Interval
Debussy: 2 Arabesques; Bruyères (Préludes, Bk.2 No.5); Images, Set 1
Ravel: Une barque sur l'océan from Miroirs
Debussy: L'isle joyeuse
Need to know
A bonus event package is available to purchase as an optional add-on for £60 when you buy a ticket to this concert. The bonus package includes access to an exclusive 30-minute event after the main concert, where Tiffany Poon performs tracks from her album, chats with the audience and signs CDs. Bonus event ticket holders also receive a limited edition merch gift pack which includes the pianist’s latest album, Nature. A CD signing for all ticket holders also takes place in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer after the bonus event.
Find out more about the music with our free programme.
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Reviews
‘… one of the finest Schumann recordings I have heard in a long time … Tiffany Poon’s refined workmanship and intelligent musicality deserve respect and consideration’
Gramophone
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