Friday, 6 October 2023
7.30pm, Kelso Old Parish Church, TD5 7BH
Jia Ning Ng Piano
Beethoven
Sonata no 17 in D minor op 31 no 2 (The Tempest)
Schumann
Bunte Blätter op 99
Schubert
Sonata in G D894
Jia Ning is a recent graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS), where she was a multi-award winning student including the Governors' Recital Prize for Keyboard and the RCS Concerto Competition. As a result of the latter, she performed with the RSNO. An active chamber musician, she was an Oxford Lieder Young Artist and Leeds Lieder Young Artist in the 2022-2023 season. With the soprano Karla Grant she has performed across Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium. A recent collaboration with the Resol String Quartet has seen her perform Mozart and Beethoven concertos in chamber format in concerts throughout Scotland.
She is appearing tonight as part of a sponsored tour resulting from her RCS Governors' Recital Prize for keyboard.
'Jia Ning was clearly alive to all the nuances of Schubert's famously illustrative accompaniments, whether turning the great Steinway into a gently plucked lute [An die Laute] or rippling seamlessly as the flowers swayed in the breeze [Die Blumensprache]'
Daily Info Oxford Lieder Festival: A Schubertiade