From The Workshop will be hosting it's second Piano recital at 11.00am on Sunday 24th June as part of Macclesfield's Barnaby Festival following the sucess of the last piano recital which was featured in April's Cheshire Life!
Pianist Matthew Kam, Pianist Matthew Kam is a graduate of Melbourne University. He performed Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with the University Symphony Orchestra. After winning the Australian National Piano Award and numerous other significant prizes, as well as generous sponsorship from the John Tallis Foundation, he moved to England for further training at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he completed a Masters and Postgraduate Diploma, followed by a two-year Junior Fellowship in Solo Piano in 2009. He studied with Max Cooke, Helen Krizos and Nelson Goerner. Matthew's performances of Rautavaara's FirstPiano Concerto with the RNCM Symphony Orchestra for the RNCM and Lancaster International Concert Series won praise from the composer himself, who later wrote to say: "Your rendering of the concerto is perfect. Your playing is full of drama and also with great lyrical expressiveness." He gave his debut solo recital at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, and has also performed as a chamber musician at the St Martin in the Fields and Wigmore Hall in London. To date, Matthew has performed in numerous solo and chamber music recitals for various music societies and festivals throughout the UK.
The piano recital is kindly sponsored by Schulze Pollmann pianos, Shackleford pianos and Marburae Art Gallery.
The website for the From the Workshop piano recitals is www.sitespecificmusic.co.uk
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