Paino Recital with Tyler Hay "Like a man possessed with technique to spare" - Pianist Magazine

PROGRAMME

Frederic Chopin 1810 - 1849
14 Valses Op 18 in E flat Major,
Op 34 no 1 in A flat Major,
Op 34 no 2 in A minor,
Op 34 no 3 in F Major,
Op 42 in A flat Major
Op 64 no 1 in C sharp minor,
Op 64 no 2 in D flat Major Minute,
Op 64 no 3 in A flat Major,
Op 69 no 1 in A flat Major,
Op 69 no 2 in B minor,
Op 70 no 1 in G flat Major,
Op 70 no 2 in F minor,
Op 70 no 3 in D flat Major,
Op post in E minor.

INTERVAL
Carl Tausig 1842 - 1871
The Ghost Ship, op 1

Franz Liszt 1811 - 1886
Sonata in B minor, S.178

Tyler Hay was born in 1994 and first showed a prodigious talent for the piano when he won the Dennis Loveland award in Kent for his performance of Liszts Mephisto Waltz no 1 at the age of 11. He gained a place to study at the Purcell School in 2007 where he studied under Tessa Nicholson. He continued his studies with Graham Scott and Frank Wibaut at the Royal Northern College of Music and with Niel Immelman and Gordon Fergus-Thompson for a Masters degree at the Royal College of Music. Tyler has performed programmes at Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall and the Purcell Room and has played Ravels Concerto for Left Hand Alone at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Saint-Sans Piano Concerto no 2 at Symphony Hall with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In 2016, Tyler won first prize in the keyboard section of the Royal Overseas League Competition and as well as winning the RNCMs Gold medal competition, also won first prize in the Liszt Society International Competition. Tyler won 1st prize in the Dudley International Piano Competition in November, 2022. CDs of Liszt, John Ogdon, Kalkbrenner and Field are available on Brilliant Classics and an album of virtuoso piano music by contemporary British composer Simon Proctor is also available on Navona Records.