Zack Teo
Pianist · Educator · Pedagogue · Artistic Director
Sat, 19 Sept
|BECHSTEIN MUSIC WORLD
The Ballades: A Dialogue in Four Tales
Four Ballades. Two Pianists. One Evening. This September, Bryan Soo and I invite you to The Ballades: A Dialogue in Four Tales — featuring all four of Chopin’s Ballades, alongside works by Liszt, Scriabin, Kapustin, and Chopin.
Time & Location
19 Sept 2026, 7:30 pm
BECHSTEIN MUSIC WORLD, 7 Shenton Way , #02-01 Singapore Conference Hall, Singapore 068810
About the event
The Ballades: A Dialogue in Four Tales
An evening of poetry, passion, and storytelling through the piano
Pianists Teo Zhen Yi and Bryan Soo present The Ballades: A Dialogue in Four Tales — a recital centered around one of the pinnacles of the Romantic piano repertoire: Frédéric Chopin’s four Ballades.
Widely regarded as some of the most profound and revolutionary works ever written for solo piano, the Ballades transcend the boundaries of traditional form. Each unfolds like a narrative without words, at times intimate and reflective, at times turbulent and heroic, drawing listeners into worlds of longing, conflict, tenderness, and triumph. Presented together in a single evening, the four Ballades form a larger journey: four distinct tales united by a shared spirit of imagination and emotional depth.
Surrounding these monumental works is a carefully curated programme exploring different shades of Romantic and post-Romantic expression. Liszt’s Sonetto 104 del Petrarca offers a deeply…