Recitals Australia Presents
Lunch Hour Spring Series
North Adelaide Baptist Church Hall – Tynte Street, North Adelaide
Program
Esmond Choi (piano)
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
Sonata in G Major, op.37 no.2
i. Allegro
Ii. Adagio ‘In the Solemn Style’
iii. Allegro con spirito
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Impromptu in Bb op.142 no.3 D 935
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Voiles from Preludes Book I
An-lun Huang (1949-)
Chinese Rhapsody no. 2
ABOUT ESMOND 
Esmond Choi is an Australian pianist/composer who has completed his undergraduate studies and continue studies with Lucinda Collins. He is currently studying Master of Philosophy in Performance with the supervision of Stephen Whittington and Konstantin Shamray; Esmond is researching Charles Ives’s artistic approach on being a musician and the preparation for performing the First Piano Sonata. For this project, he travelled to New England Conservatory in Boston and had a short intensive study with Stephen Drury on Charles Ives. Esmond is also the current pianist for the Novus ensemble with Jenny Hu (flute) and Jack Overall (Cello).
Under the name of Elder Music Lab, Esmond premiered the complete cycle of George Crumb’s Metamorphoses. Furthermore, he participated in PianoLab (2022) performing Crumb’s Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik and received a review from Limelight saying, “…Choi’s captivating performance was a revelation…”.
In 2023, Esmond made his solo debut at Tempo Rubato, Melbourne and received great success. Furthermore, under Dr Luke Dollman’s leadership, Esmond and a few other musicians were selected to be part of a collaboration project with Yong Siew Toh Conservatory’s new music ensemble OpusNovus and performed in Adelaide and Singapore. During the same year, Esmond was chosen to participate in the Recitals Australia’s fellowship program. In early 2024, Esmond performed Julia Wolfe’s East Boardway for solo Toy Piano at She Speaks Festival. And with the help of the fellowship program. Esmond presented two solo fringe recitals focusing on George Crumb’s complete Metamorphoses cycle and received a 5-star review from Barefoot Review: “Choi’s accomplished readings of these diverse and demanding works, combined with his thoughtful programming, made these recitals unforgettable.”
Recently, Esmond travelled back to the United States, San Francisco to attend the experimental music festival, The Other Minds Festival and Charles Ives conference in Bloomington, Indiana. The festival featured composers like Trimpin and Annea Lockwood, Jan Martin Smørdal, many more.