NUS Piano Ensemble's Touch '09 Concert @ Esplanade

At the Esplanade Recital Studio last night, NUS Piano Ensemble put up their annual concert to a full house. The Guest-of-Honour for the event was Mr. Richard Adams, Head of Music, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.

It was a carefully planned concert by the group, which resulted in a tight production and wonderful performance. The exciting repertoire kept the audience glued to the pianists with their fingers skilfully gliding across the keyboards.

I could tell from the smiles the pianists gave each other as signs of encouragement and acknowledgements that they have put in many hours of hard work together to achieve that kind of good teamwork. Indeed, it was breathtaking for me personally because this is probably the first double piano concert I have watched.

It was very unfortunate, though, that one of NUSPE's tutors, Ms. Soon, injured her arm and was unable to play last night as I was really looking forward to that performance. As the NUSPE members took their curtain call at the end of the show, the audience gave them a rousing applause for a good night of piano music.