Joseph Tong
Pianist Joseph Tong is a versatile player with wide experience in solo piano, duo piano, and chamber music repertory. He is also a noted educator.
Tong grew up in the English county of Somerset, where he had his first lessons at the Wells Cathedral School with Hilary Coates. His brother Daniel is also a professional pianist, and the two have performed together in duo piano literature. Joseph attended Christ's College at the University of Cambridge, studying music and graduating in 1993. He went on to the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Christopher Elton and earned a DipRAM degree in 1995. Tong also had private lessons with Piers Lane. In 1996, he won the Maisie Lewis Young Artists Award, and part of the prize was the opportunity to make his recital debut at London's Wigmore Hall the following year. In addition to his brother, Tong also frequently performs with pianist Waka Hasegawa as part of the duo Piano 4 Hands, and the pair has been in demand around Britain. They have performed at Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, and St. George's Bristol, as well as other major halls, and they have appeared at festivals in Buxton, York, Cheltenham (three times), and elsewhere. It was with Hasegawa that Tong made his recording debut in 2009 with the album Schubert: Piano Duets, released on the Quartz label.
Tong also has a flourishing career as a solo pianist. He often plays the works of Sibelius and Schumann and has performed them on tour at Sibelius' home, Ainola (on Sibelius' own Steinway piano), and in Schumann's home cities of Zwickau and Leipzig. Both as a soloist and with Piano 4 Hands, he has championed contemporary music, commissioning new works for Piano 4 Hands from Dai Fujikura, John McCabe (whose Upon Entering a Painting Tong recorded solo in 2011), and Edwin Roxburgh. In 2008, he founded the Bristol International Piano Duo Festival, and he served as its co-director until 2017. Tong was set to premiere a new set of solo piano pieces by David Matthews at the Three Choirs Festival in the summer of 2022. He recorded the complete piano works of Sibelius in two volumes for the Quartz label in 2015 and 2017 and a collection of Schumann pieces for the same label in 2019. In 2022, he moved to Resonus Classics, backing violinist Fenella Humphreys on an album of Sibelius works for violin and piano. He is a senior piano tutor at Wells Cathedral School.
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12 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Sibelius: Piano Works, Vol. 3 (CD)
Classique - Paru chez Quartz Music le 7 juil. 2023
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Sibelius: Piano Works, Vol. 2
Classique - Paru chez Quartz Music le 7 juil. 2017
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Sibelius: Works for Violin & Piano
Fenella Humphreys, Joseph Tong
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Resonus Classics le 7 janv. 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sibelius: Piano Works, Vol. 1
Classique - Paru chez Quartz Music le 1 janv. 2015
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Debussy: Piano 4 Hands
Classique - Paru chez Quartz Music le 1 janv. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
R. Schumann: Works for Piano
Classique - Paru chez Quartz Music le 7 juin 2019
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John McCabe: Upon Entering a Painting
Classique - Paru chez Quartz Music le 1 janv. 2011
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Four Pieces, Op. 78: I. Impromptu
Fenella Humphreys, Joseph Tong
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Resonus Classics le 3 déc. 2021
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Schubert: Piano Duets
Classique - Paru chez Quartz Music le 1 janv. 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Piano Duets
Classique - Paru chez Quartz Music Ltd le 20 mai 2009
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McCabe: Upon Entering a Painting
Classique - Paru chez Quartz Music Ltd le 1 janv. 2011
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Danses champêtres, Op. 106: II. Alla polacca
Fenella Humphreys, Joseph Tong
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Resonus Classics le 17 déc. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo