Tangrenzhu
Kam Ning is a Singapore violist who has been considered a marvelous prodigy especially in interpret the contemporary music. Telegraph described Ning as a violinist with ”much flair plus a totally confident stage presence and an absolute command of the music”.
She definitely boiled the whole Yong Siew Toh conservatory concert hall last Friday and conquest the audiences with her formidable technique even far above our expectation.
The reason why we didn’t pay too much attention for her, which is she is too young and we didn’t hear her concert previously. But we definitely changed our opinions when we heard her silky sound and assured playing.
The concert programmes she provided are four contemporary pieces-“Road movies” composed by John Adams, Distant light” composed by Peteris Vasks, ”amazing grace” composed by John Newton and “café music” composed by Paul Schoenfield.
She also invited Qin Li Wei (cellist), Bernard Lanskey (pianist) and Conservatory Strings for the concert that highly promotes the concert.
I would like to say, the”road movies” shows her formidable technique and the “amazing grace” shows her composition talent, but the most great piece I appreciate which is “distant light” and I’m quite honest that I can involve this piece for accompaniment. The piece typically shows Kam Ming is absolutely a sensitive for the music and the music detail she processed is highly professional. For instance, we observed that she made few seconds silence after the climax of the piece, which is far enhancing the music.
Kam ming reflect a kind of spirit in this period which is creative and lively. Not only her assured playing but also the pieces she choose and arranged.
For young musician, they suppose to think about what kind of music that can represent our period and what are the characters these are.
The concert review
