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A CELEBRATION OF KEYBOARDS

MERVYN LEE Piano Recital

Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestral Hall

Thursday (13 November 2014)

Chang Tou Liang

The Straits Times Singapore

It is always fascinating to follow the progress of child prodigy musicians, because few if any actually realise their enormous early potentials in adult years. Many fizzle out and lose interest along the way, or are lost to competing professions and preoccupations.  Sixteen-year-old pianist Mervyn Lee, who at 10 was the youngest ever soloist to perform at the President’s Young Performers Concert in 2009, looks to be making good progress. A student of both Yio Chu Kang Secondary School and the Young Artist Programme at the Conservatory, he also pursues early music performance, musicology and composes.  In an 80-minute long recital that reflected the broad palette of his interests, he performed first on a Carey Beebe harpsichord. Music by 16th and 17th century masters Johann Froberger and Jan Sweelinck usually resides in the domain of baroque specialists, but Lee displayed a natural flair and sensitive touch. In the former’s Toccata in G major, certain liberties taken with tempos and exactness in fugal passages found a happy medium, while a robust humour inhabited the latter’s pastoral variations on More Palatino.

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