20. 9th October 2019

David Soo performing at the Grosvenor Chapel 

This evening, I went to The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London Annual Charity Concert.

The Concert was held at the Grosvenor Chapel in South Audley Street, Mayfair.

By a stroke of good fortune, I managed to sit in one of the” best seats in the House“, which afforded me a wonderful view of the pianists’ hands as they danced across the keyboard I was struck by the emotion with which they played , at times caressing the keys to coax sound out of them , and at times playing more assertively.

David Soo

The music was sublime –  Australian pianist ,David Soo , the Glass Sellers Beethoven Piano Prize Winner 2018 , treated us to a most accomplished performance of a Beethoven Sonata , followed by a Prokofiev Sonata . After the interval he was joined by Zhu Sun , another pianist who has studied at The Guildhall School  of Music, and they played four duets  from Bach , Ravel , Faure and Dvorak, before David Soo completed the programme with two compositions from Lizt , the last being a brilliantly played Rhapsodie Espagnole . I was most impressed by David Soo playing all his pieces from memory.