Seattle Chamber Music Society: Bion Tsang & Anton Nel
$200 (includes cost of admission, food, & drinks)
- Bion Tsang, cello
- Anton Nel, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19
Longtime SCMS favorites Bion Tsang and Anton Nel perform at the picturesque Magnolia home of Susan Detweiler! Tsang and Nel have been awarded a plethora of individual awards including an Avery Fisher Career Grant and numerous awards in international competitions spanning the globe. Purchase your tickets today before the concert sells out!
Included in the $200 ticket price is a $125 tax-deductible donation and a $75 fair market value ticket which includes the cost of admission, food, and drinks. The address of the concert and information on parking will be sent to ticket buyers a week before the performance. If you are bringing a guest or have dietary restrictions, please list them in the comments section of the order form or send them to tickets@seattlechambermusic.org.
This concert is generously hosted by Susan Detweiler.
For inquiries about the series, you can contact SCMS at rsvp@seattlechambermusic.org or at (206) 283-8710.
About Bion Tsang, cello
About Anton Nel, piano
Anton Nel, winner of the first prize in the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall, continues to enjoy a remarkable and multifaceted career that has taken him to North and South America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Following an auspicious debut at the age of twelve with Beethoven’s C-major concerto after only two years of study, the Johannesburg native captured first prizes in all the major South African competitions while still in his teens, toured his native country extensively, and became a well-known radio and television personality. A student of Adolph Hallis, he made his European debut in France in 1982, and in the same year graduated with the highest distinction from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He came to the United States in 1983, attending the University of Cincinnati, where he pursued his Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees under Bela Siki and Frank Weinstock. In addition to garnering many awards from his alma mater during this three-year period, he was a prizewinner at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition in England and won several first prizes at the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition in Palm Desert in 1986.
Highlights of Mr. Nel’s four decades of concertizing include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, the symphonies of Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, and London, among many others. An acclaimed Beethoven interpreter, Anton Nel has performed the concerto cycle several times, most notably on two consecutive evenings with the Cape Philharmonic in 2005. Additionally, he has performed all-Beethoven solo recitals, complete cycles of the violin and cello works, and most recently, a highly successful run of the Diabelli Variations as part of Moises Kaufman’s play 33 Variations.
As a recitalist, he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum, the Frick Collection in New York, the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, Davies Hall in San Francisco, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Internationally, he has performed recitals in major concert halls in Canada, England (Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls in London), France, Holland (Concertgebouw in Amsterdam), Japan (Suntory Hall in Tokyo), Korea, China, and South Africa.
https://www.antonnel.com/