25 September 2025

Passage of time

The gig was called Passage of time, apparently highlighting early to later French piano, but really just a varied mix: Rameau, Haydn, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy.  It was a first personal concert but not a first competition performance for Shreyas Sunkaraneni, a student of Marie Cull.  He was good.  Plenty of commitment, musical responsiveness, some errors but nice recoveries and worthy interpretations, generous dyunamics and volume responses, nicely expressive with some drama along the way, firm and loud and played from memory.  It's interesting to see the developing players and Shreyas had some slips, but there's a certainty of tone and strong interpretation here that was warmly received by the audience.  Nice gig, much enjoyed.

Shreyas Sunkaraneni (piano) performed at Wesley.

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