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ABC News
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Superstar pianist Lang Lang
A piano superstar equally at home playing in front of billions at the Beijing Olympics, or a few hundred children at a local school. Tamara managed to steal some time with Lang Lang in between rehearsals and asked him where his love of the piano comes from, why he values music education so highly, and how he manages to keep innovating after achieving so much. Discovering that Elena Kats-Chernin's Eliza Aria was the first Australian piece Lang Lang had ever played, Tamara invited him to perform a two-piano version with her, and he enthusiastically agreed.
Times
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Her Ensemble review — Jess Gillam leads the charge in a crowded programme
Too many ideas, none of them fully followed through — that's why this concert by Her Ensemble at Milton Court in London didn't hang together as a whole. At first, it seemed dance was going to unite the four stylistically diverse pieces. The subtitle, after all, was 'The Three Dancers', after the painting by Picasso, which in turn inspired Elena Kats-Chernin to compose a dance score. And there was one real-life dancer on stage, Julian Nichols. Confusingly, however, he was dancing not to Kats-Chernin but to an atmospheric trio, Insight, by Dobrinka Tabakova. Worthwhile as that was, I'd love to have seen him return elsewhere. Perhaps another of the programme's stated themes, visual art, might provide the glue. But again, the idea petered out
