Lunchtime Concert Series | Mengyang Pan
Lunchtime Concert Series from the Great Hall of Imperial College London
Hosted by the Blyth Centre for Music and Visual Arts
Streamed live on 29 October 2020
Mengyang Pan piano
Acclaimed Chinese born British pianist Mengyang Pan began her piano studies in China, eventually becoming a junior student at the Central Conservatory of Music Beijing. Having been offered a full scholarship, she accepted an invitation to study at the Purcell School in the UK before completing her musical education at the Royal College of Music, London. Famed for her graceful charm and wonderful communicative stage presence, Mengyang performs repeatedly in some of the best venues throughout the UK such as the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, St. John’s Smith Square and Royal Albert Hall amongst many others. In 2011, she was presented to HM Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace for her contribution to the British music and art industry. She is currently a professor of piano at Royal College of Music, Imperial College’s Blyth Centre for Music and Visual Arts and St Paul’s School for boys. Her programme celebrates Beethoven’s anniversary with his Op 10 No 3, dedicated to Countess Anne Margarete von Browne, and the famous ‘Appasionata’, one of Beethoven’s greatest and most technically challenging piano sonatas.
PROGRAMME
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No 7 in D major Op 10 No 3
I. Presto
II. Largo e mesto
III. Menuetto: Allegro
IV. Rondo: Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor Op 57 ‘Appassionata’
I. Allegro assai
II. Andante con moto
III. Allegro ma non troppo
Live Notes is presented by Dr Maria Razumvskaya (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
Books: Heinrich Neuhaus: A Life beyond Music
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Recordings: Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op 37a; Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
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