Kenny Fu's International Interview Concert

There’ll be Beethoven, Grieg, Brahms, Medtner, Stravinsky. More? See below.
But wait . . .
An Interview Concert keeps secret some of what our artiste will perform, for your surprise, thrill and delight. You’re drawn in further to the intrigue of music with our trademark listener features. And if you’ve got one, you can throw your own burning question into the mix. At this absorbing event coming, you’ll meet our next Guest Interviewer.
Our own special ‘In The Round’ layout has already given people the close-up concert experience of their lifetime – with the chance to return for more!
Be extra ready this time. Kenny Fu is going to do two things you’ve likely never witnessed at a classical concert.

Kenny Fu has the repertoire width, the virtuosic skill and artistic insight to capture and enervate anyone with anything. He sweeps from baroque Bach, on through the great keyboard classicalists and romantics - particularly Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov – to the mould-smasher Stravinsky, provocative Prokofiev, and the mindful Medtner.

So, what CAN we officially reveal that he’ll perform?

Nikolai Medtner – Sonata Reminiscenza Op38 No 1 ‘From Forgotten Memories’. This Sonata will open up this composer for you. ‘He’s better than me’ was what Rachmaninov said about him.

Johannes Brahms – Intermezzi Opus 117 Nos 1 & 2; and from Six Pieces Op118, Nos 2 & 3. There’s a clue in our concert title about the wonderful deep-welling emotion in this music – and of Brahms’ time of life.

Ludwig van Beethoven – the audience’s choice of movement from Sonata No 29 Op106 ‘Hammerklavier’. Each packs its own punch of greatness.

Grieg, Stravinsky, others? Ah, these are wrapped-up surprises to be opened on the day!

Early on, Kenny Fu made the last eight in the BBC Young Musician. Later, he was the only Briton among the six exciting semi-finalists in the last Sussex International Piano Competition in 2018. He also made the semis in Brescia, second prize in Cyprus. Now at last we all have the chance to meet Kenny interviewed – as well as in a full-length music concert. Discover the young man behind his bristling musical offerings.

The Kenny Fu pedigree? After four years at London’s Purcell School, at 18 he was the sole pianist selected at the two Royal Academy of Music entry auditions to receive the four-year Elton John Scholarship (watch out for a picture on our Facebook page). Then Kenny added his two-year Masters degree and the one-year Advanced Diploma at the Academy – who now, between his outside concert appearances, have him teaching some students in their Piano Department.