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ReSounding offers two themes: voices lost to history and now revived, and the scenic and spiritual transcending musical cultures.
We begin with Debussy’s summer-winter preludes. Mendelssohn-Hensel's Easter Sonata fuses Romantic Lieder and virtuosity with an homage to Bach. Written in 1828, the Sonata was lost to the archives, then mistakenly attributed to her brother Felix, and only premiered under the right name in 2010. The finale depicts the earthquake in St Matthew Passion—an uncanny link to Buencamino’s Fantasy on the most active volcano in the Philippines. The tension between tradition and innovation is revisited in Schumann’s bold take on Beethoven’s famous symphonic theme. We conclude the evening with African-American composer Price’s Fantasie nègre No.2, written in 1932 but only premiered and published in 2020, and a triumphant celebration of her identity. |
ProgrammeClaude Debussy
Preludes Les collines d'Anacapri and Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Easter Sonata Francisco Buencamino Mayon Fantasy Robert Schumann Etudes in Variation Form on a Theme by Beethoven, WoO 31 Florence Price Fantasie nègre No.2 Programme subject to change at the artist's discretion. |
Ning Hui See |
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Photo by Anthony Cheng
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Ning Hui See is a pianist from Singapore recognised for her “refined touch” and “a keen insight and intellectual nous that is all too rare among artists” (The Straits Times). She is committed to the meaningful integration of music by underrepresented composers in her performances, research, and teaching. Ning Hui has performed across the UK in venues such as the Steinway Hall, St James’s Piccadilly, Austrian Cultural Forum, and Victoria & Albert Museum in London, as well as the Leeds International Concert Series, Yehudi Menuhin School, and Pallant House Gallery. Her international engagements include recitals in France, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Aspen Harris Hall in Colorado, and Singapore’s Esplanade. She has also featured as a concerto soloist with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and the Danube Symphony Orchestra.
Early in her career, Ning Hui was a laureate of the ‘Città di Padova’ and Cesar Franck International Piano Competitions in Italy and Belgium and a 2014 BBC Young Musician keyboard finalist. She studied with John Byrne and Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music London, where she received the Esther Fisher Prize. Currently teaching at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (University of the Arts Singapore), Ning Hui previously worked as a teaching assistant for historical studies at the RCM. Her PhD thesis (2024) examines issues of canon, value, and performer identity. She has presented her research at international conferences in the UK, US, and Europe and delivered guest seminars at the University of Freiburg and Duke University. |