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63, Cambridge Street • London • SW1V 4PS
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7976 5041 • email: info@tashmina.co.uk
Daniel Tong
Piano
Described as a “complete pianist” with “uncommon panache, fluidity and spontaneity” and “hypnotically sensitive playing”, Daniel Tong’s recitals and concerto appearances are always memorable and illuminating. His solo engagements have taken him to concert halls and festivals throughout the UK and also to Portugal, France and Sweden.
Earlier this year Daniel performed Schubert's last sonata at St John's Smith Square, appeared as soloist in Beethoven's Emperor Concerto at St Martin-in-the-Fields and launched Beethoven Unravelled, a series of lectures and recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas with broadcaster Richard Wigmore. Further events in this series are planned for 2010. A CD recording of solo piano works by Debussy and Bartok is also planned for 2010, on the new Sonimage label and Daniel will record Bridge’s 3 Sketches for Dutton Epoch as part of the London Bridge Ensemble’s next disc.
Daniel has also given solo recitals for Cheltenham Festival, the Park Lane Group at the South Bank, for the Keyboard Trust at Steinway Hall and at St Martin-in-the-Fields. To celebrate Elgar’s anniversary in 2007, Daniel gave a recital of his rarely-heard piano works at the composer’s birthplace and he has performed concertos by Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov and Gershwin.
As a chamber musician, Daniel is a regular performer at major concert halls and festivals in the UK and on BBC Radio 3. Recent performances have included Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square and Purcell Room in London, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Kerry Festival as well as the Salisbury, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Brighton, Newbury, Warwick and City of London festivals. He has also played at St. David's Hall in Cardiff, St. Georges Bristol and Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.
Daniel's performances of works by Beethoven have been enthusiastically received and his affinity with the composer's works has led him to develop an ongoing project, exploring Beethoven's solo and chamber output. Recitals of the piano sonatas and Beethoven Unravelled with Richard Wigmore have been complemented by performances of the complete cycles of sonatas for violin and piano (with Fiona McNaught) and cello and piano (with Pierre Doumenge).
Daniel founded The London Bridge Ensemble in 2003 and the group is now firmly established as one of Britain’s most exciting and brilliant chamber groups. In the spring of 2008 they released a CD of works by Frank Bridge to critical acclaim, including glowing reviews and recommendations by both Gramophone and International Record Review. The disc is part of the Epoch series for the Dutton label; part two in their survey of Bridge's early works for Dutton Epoch will be released in 2010. The London Bridge Ensemble’s recent Schumann recording for Sonimage Classics is also scheduled for release in 2010, to be followed by a recording of works by Fauré on the same label.
In 2004, Daniel performed Dvořák’s Piano Quartets with the Picander Ensemble at a range of venues, which included Wigmore Hall, the South Bank and Aldeburgh Festival, to commemorate Dvořák’s centenary; they subsequently recorded these works for Merlin Classics.
Daniel regularly appears in recitals with baritone Ivan Ludlow. They have appeared together at the Wigmore Hall and in recitals in Belgium, France and Portugal. Available recordings include works by Frank Bridge and Schumann. Daniel has also worked with Stephan Loges and Valerie Gabail, as well as Charles Daniels and Andrew Staples with the London Bridge Ensemble. He collaborated with Paul Agnew and the Allegri Quartet in works by Vaughan Williams and Michael Stimpson, the latter subsequently recorded and available from Riverrun records.
He gives regular recitals with Jennifer Pike, including several performances at the Wigmore Hall and live on BBC Radio 3, and also performs with violinist Florence Cooke
Daniel first came to attention as a finalist in the BBC Young Musicians competition in 1992; his other early successes included selection by the Tillett, Tunnell and Craxton Trusts, the Worshipful Company of Musicians (Maisie Lewis Award), the BBC Radio 3 Young Artists' Forum and the Park Lane Group.
Daniel studied with Irina Zaritskaya at the Royal College of Music and Paul Roberts at the Guildhall in London. He won the Edith Vogel award and was supported by the Countess of Munster Trust.
Daniel founded and directs the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival, now in its eleventh year, and is Co-Artistic Director of the Winchester Chamber Music Festival.