Bocheng Wang at St Mary’s Perivale
The clarity and refined intelligence of a true poet
I have heard Bocheng play many times over the past years when he was an undergraduate at the Royal Academy and have always been impressed by his highly professional playing of intelligent musicianship and technical clarity. He is now a post graduate having been awarded all the highest prizes and is being mentored – maybe on a fellowship?- by Tessa Nicholson that renowned trainer of some of the finest pianists of their generation – Alim Beisembayev, Mark Viner, Tyler Hay etc .It was very interesting to hear an all ‘French’ programme culminating in three of Chopin’s masterpieces that were the work of a young Polish emigré who had come to seek out an aristocratic audience in Paris that could appreciate his refined genius.’Hats off Gentlemen a Genius’ penned Schumann on hearing the teenager playing his op 2 Variations. Chopin, though, was destined never to return to the homeland that he always had in his heart. It was this same refined elegance and glowing clarity that Bocheng brought to all he played.
Read more here at Christopher Axworthy’s blog
