Piano 4 Hands Joseph Tong (piano) Waka Hasegawa (piano)
Andante and Variations in G, for piano 4 hands K 501 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Variations on a theme of Handel, for piano 4 hands Op 144 - David Matthews
Fantasie in F minor for piano 4 hands D 940; Op 103 - Franz Schubert
Petite Suite, for piano 4 hands L 65 - Claude Debussy
Symphony No 1 in D, 'Classical' Op 25 - Sergey Prokofiev, arranged for piano 4 hands by Waka Hasegawa
La valse - Maurice Ravel, arranged for piano 4 hands - Lucien Garban
Widely regarded as one of the U.K.’s leading piano duos, Piano 4 Hands are regular performers at London’s Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre. Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa were prize winners at the 2003 Tokyo International Piano Duo Competition and at the Schubert International Competition in the Czech Republic. The duo has given recitals in Japan, Germany, Spain and the USA as well as live broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and WFMT Radio in Chicago.
Since their acclaimed London debut in 2002, Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa have given a number of successful Wigmore Hall recitals. They have performed at many of the major concert venues around the UK including Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, St David’s Hall Cardiff, St George’s Bristol and the Turner Sims Hall in Southampton and also at festivals such as Buxton, Cheltenham, Bury St Edmunds, Chichester, Dulwich, Guildford and York. Their debut CD of Debussy piano duets for Quartz was chosen as Album of the Week in The Independent and received 5 stars in BBC Music Magazine. Subsequent recordings of Schubert duets and piano music by John McCabe have met with similar critical acclaim including highly positive reviews in the Sunday Times, Gramophone and International Record Review.
Joseph and Waka were elected Associates of the Royal Academy of Music in 2008. A number of composers have written works for the duo including Dai Fujikura, Robert Keeley, Nicola LeFanu, Edwin Roxburgh and John McCabe
