Yidong Lin – Playing Love in Jazz
  • Tuesday 20 December 2022, 7:30pm
  • Carole Nash Hall
  • £20 - £11
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‘He demonstrates a genuine poetic instinct, artistic stature, and musical receptivity, that is conspicuously rare among young pianists who have such technical gifts’Benjamin Martin

A young pianist from Canton, China, and currently a PhD student in Musicology at the University of Manchester. He won the first prize of individual music all-round award from the Ministry of Education of China in 2018 and graduated with First Class honours from the University of Melbourne in 2021 to further his development as a wonderful musician. He has participated in nearly 150 concerts, and this is his sixth solo concert.

The theme of this concert is jazz and film, from classic jazz music to classic film soundtracks, including Kapustin; Bill Evans; La La Land; Disney Animation and The Legend of 1900, will be performed in piano solo.

Yidong Lin – Playing Love in Jazz
  • Carole Nash Hall
  • £20 - £11

Programme

Programme

Cheek to Cheek
Misty
Taking A Chance On Love
Waltz for Debby
En avril à Paris
Kapustin Variations Op.41

When You Wish Upon A Star
A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes
Moon River
Autumn Leaves
Fly Me to the Moon
Playing Love
Over the Rainbow
La La Land Suite
Christmas Jazz Suite

Subject to the performance on the day.

‘He demonstrates a genuine poetic instinct, artistic stature, and musical receptivity, that is conspicuously rare among young pianists who have such technical gifts’Benjamin Martin

A young pianist from Canton, China, and currently a PhD student in Musicology at the University of Manchester. He won the first prize of individual music all-round award from the Ministry of Education of China in 2018 and graduated with First Class honours from the University of Melbourne in 2021 to further his development as a wonderful musician. He has participated in nearly 150 concerts, and this is his sixth solo concert.

The theme of this concert is jazz and film, from classic jazz music to classic film soundtracks, including Kapustin; Bill Evans; La La Land; Disney Animation and The Legend of 1900, will be performed in piano solo.