Live at Lunch: Sebastian Congyi Wang

Tickets: £5 in advance, £6 on the day

Sebastian Wang piano

Programme to include:

Rachmaninov Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5

Liszt Étude de Concert No. 2: La Leggierezza

Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 6

Mozart Sonata No. 18, K. 576 ‘The Hunt’

Nottingham pianist, Sebastian Congyi Wang, became the youngest ever winner of the piano category at the Nottingham Young Musician of the Year in 2023, and has been a performer on our Nottingham Classics Concert Prelude stage for a number of years. For his first Live at Lunch performance, Sebastian brings a programme of some of the greatest works for solo piano.

Now a pupil at Eton College, Sebastian has already established himself on the international competition circuit, winning prizes in Germany and Belgium as well as the London Overseas League, and three consecutive First Prizes at the Leicester Music Festival.

Sebastian’s programme will include Rachmaninov’s famous Prelude Op. 23, No. 5 with its familiar heroic march-style rhythms, and is contrasted with Liszt’s second Concert Étude, titled “lightness”. Chopin’s G-sharp minor study, nicknamed “Thirds” is a virtuosic technical workout, as is Mozart’s Sonata No. 18, so-called “The Hunt” for its rollicking opening theme.