The kids return

I write in jest as I always do for the students of Jinbo Huang.  This is the third outing that I have attended and I remain quite in awe.   It's still that the younger ones don't have that adult emotional awareness but they have skills and chops which will support their emotional interpretations as they grow older.  They take on Bach and Haydn and Beethoven and the rest with real competence at all ages, then on to a first year university student (Michael Anufriya) and we hear delightful delicacy and clarity in the playing.   And the ages do vary.  Charles Huang is not one of the older players, but he is impressive and capable and verging on that mature interpretation of the adults.  And the range of works is another pleasure.  Bach and Beethoven are popular, but also Faure and Sibelius and Bartok and something more obscure, Michael Carmichael.  And agian, they mainly played from memory.  One advantage of a young age, perhaps?  Just another Wesley Wednesday concert, and just another great pleasure.

The Piano studio of Jinbo Huang performed at Wesley.  On the day, the performers were Frank Huang, Charles Huang, Naomi Feng, James Jin, Charlie Sanoubane, Michael Anufriyeva and Damien Ruan (piano).

Kids today

Well not all kids can play piano like this crew.  They are students from the piano studio of teacher Jinbo Huang and they played a Wesley Wednesday lunchtime concert.  It's amusing how they go on stage, all of 10 years or so, but ranging in age, all dressed to the nines, looking very presentable, very young and quite small, at a grand piano, perhaps paired for a four handed duet, then you listen.  They were good, some very good.  I still notice adults with their depth of emotions, but the older ones here are showing that and the younger still present very satisfying youthful compositions (titles included The puppet and T-Rex hungry, no less!) through simpler Brahms and Beethoven and Strauss Snr to the movements from the Pathetique and Schubert Impromptu.  This is a mightily impressive crew and a pleasure to hear.  We can only look forward to some lovely playing around town.

Charles Huang, James Jin, Arabella Lu, Frank Huang, Naomi Feng, Angelia Lee, Khloe Chen, Charlie Sanoubane, Damien Ruan and Michael Anufriyeva  from the studio of Jinbo Huang played at Wesley.