Ryan Wang

BBC Young Musician of the Year winner takes on an all-Chopin programme that showcases extraordinary mastery of the piano.

Crowned BBC Young Musician of the Year 2024, the exceptional Ryan Wang performs four works by the Romanticist Frédéric Chopin.

Chopin’s 24 Preludes, written in the 1830s and completed in Mallorca, span the full spectrum of emotion. Some flash by in thirty seconds, while others linger in heartbreak or push the pianist to fiendish extremes.

The rest of the programme is just as varied. The Mazurkas dance between melancholy and mischief, and the stormy Sonata carries the weight of its famous funeral march. Finally, Chopin tips his hat to opera with Là ci darem la mano’, inspired by Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

Supported by Sheila Colvin and an anonymous donor