BEETHOVEN Sonata for Piano and Violin in G major Op. 96 Poco Allegretto

Tang Tee Khoon, violinist
Luca Buratto, pianist
Live Recording 'Beethoven Heroic Years' 28 May 2017 Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore by Rolton Productions
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LUCA BURATTO
Following 2015 Honens Prize Laureate Luca Buratto’s Wigmore Hall debut recital in London this January, The Guardian wrote: “Graceful, analytical, meticulous, Buratto is a name to watch”.
In addition to his success at Canada’s Honens Piano Competition, Buratto was awarded third prize at the International Robert Schumann Competition (Zwickau) and the special ‘Acerbi’ prize, awarded to a distinguished Finalist at Milan’s Shura Cherkassky Competition, both in 2012. He took inspiration from Italian tennis player Roberta Vinci’s upset over Serena Williams at the U.S. Open just hours before his Honens win. “There are many similarities between the psyches of tennis players and pianists,” he says, referring to David Foster Wallace’s epic novel, Infinite Jest.
Recent and upcoming orchestral engagements include Milan’s La Scala with Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Edmonton Symphony and Symphony Nova Scotia. In 2016 Buratto performed for the Progetto Martha Argerich at the Lugano Festival (Switzerland), Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival (Canada), Busoni Festival (Italy) and was a resident artist at Marlboro Music Festival (USA). This summer he returns to the Marlboro Music and Ottawa International Chamber Music Festivals and, in October, gives his Carnegie Hall recital debut.
Buratto has been featured on national radio broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, CBC Radio 2, Radio Classica, Radio 3 RAI, WFMT and WQXR. A live recording of his performances from the 2015 Honens Piano Competition is available on the Honens label. His debut studio recording of works by Schumann will be released on the Hyperion label in April and is available to pre-order on iTunes.
Buratto’s affinity for the music of Robert Schumann is balanced by his curiosity for works of today’s composers such as Thomas Adès. He enjoys jigsaw puzzles and table tennis and has an interest in physics and American post-modern literature. Buratto lives in Milan.
TANG TEE KHOON
Tang Tee Khoon has been described as ‘a chamber musician of the highest order’, and a ‘national treasure’, her playing as ‘truly transcendent’ and where an ‘unfailingly singing tone co-exist with an iron-clad technique and razor-keen responses’.
Tang Tee Khoon, named one of the 40 under 40 faces to watch by Prestige Singapore, is the second-ever violinist to be awarded the loan of a J.B. Guadagnini violin by the Singapore National Arts Council.
Tang first made her concerto debut with the NUS Symphony Orchestra in Singapore at age 12 and has since performed as a soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Singapore Arts Festival Orchestra, the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, and other orchestras in the U.S., Europe and Japan.
After being awarded the violin loan in 2009, Tang performed as soloist and recitalist at Kioi Hall Tokyo, Banff Centre for the Arts Canada, St. John Smith’s Square London and at Singapore’s celebration of 40 years of diplomatic ties with Philippines as soloist with the Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra.
Some of Tang Tee Khoon's appearances at high profile events include private performances for the late Singapore President Ong Teng Cheong, a Tsunami Benefit Concert by the ASEAN Women’s Circle in Washington D.C., and the World Trade Organization Closing Ceremony in Singapore.
Tang has won numerous awards for her work, including being named the 2004 winner of the East and West International Artists Auditions in New York, which led to her successful debut recital at Carnegie’s Weill Hall the following year. Prizes and awards also include 2nd prize at the Klein International Competition U.S.A., 1st prize at Kocian International Violin Competition Czech Republic and the Myra Hess Award U.K.
As a chamber musician, Tang Tee Khoon has collaborated with the members of Emerson String Quartet, Takács String Quartet, Borromeo String Quartet, Peabody Piano Trio, San Francisco Piano Quartet, Wu Han, Colin Carr, Hsin-Yun Huang, Midori and Ian Swenson. Tee Khoon Tang directs a chamber music series in Singapore that works actively to maintain an international level of chamber music performance in her home country, and presents important educational activities and experience-centered events in the community.
Tang Tee Khoon mentored with Donald Weilerstein in Boston and David Takeno in London U.K.