Tomos Boyles at Steinway Hall
Intelligence and poetic artistry combine
An artist is known by his programmes and it was clear from the very first notes of Tomos Boyles recital why he had recently been made a bicentenary scholar at the Royal Academy. He joins the ranks of three pianists of 12 musicians ,Tomos together with Milda Daunoraite and Kasparas Mikuzis all pianists from the Keyboard Trust Stable.
Tomos with already a first at Oxford is now perfecting his quite considerable pianistic skills at the RAM having been a student of Rustem Hayroudinoff (an emeritus KT ) for the past six years. He is now with the Head of Keyboard ,Joanna MacGregor, as he prepares for his Advanced Artist Diploma.
Caress would be more to the point as he played three of Liszt’s recreations of Schubert songs with a warmth and ravishing sense of balance that allowed these wondrous songs to hypnotise a very full Steinway Hall before embarking on the greatest song ever written for the piano.
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