Sherri Lun in Perivale
Maturity and mastery of intelligence and refined poetry
Some remarkable playing of great maturity from this twenty two year old pianist from the class of Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy in London. A class where above all musical values are the basis for a profound study of the score, taking for granted a mastery of the keyboard but explaining the style and the very meaning behind the notes. It is only from this beginning that the true meaning of technique can be understood and mastered. It is born from a wish to delve ever deeper into the score to find the meaning of the music when still wet on the page. It was exactly this that came across in all that Sherri played today. Two Fantasies, both representing the pinnacle of the Romantic piano repertoire, and a Chaconne not by Bach but by the 93 year old Sofija Gubaidulina written for the winner of the Tchaikovsky competition in 1962. The most notable thing about Sherri’s playing is the limpet type weight that her fingers have as they cling to the keys never hitting them but sucking the sound out with an enviable concentration that denies any showmanship or eccentricities. This was a pianist who listens to every sound she was making with a mastery and intelligence that would be the envy of pianists twice her age.
