“With outstanding collaboration from Patrick Hahn and the Philharmonia Orchestra I can’t recall a better account of the piece than this.”
“Leong’s generosity of phrase and tone, for instance, comes unashamedly from the chest in the songful reaches of the slow movement, and in the finale where the big tune bears down on the G string he really tugs at our emotions.”
Read the full article here.
Kerson spoke to host Hans Haffmans about his new album and gave an in-studio performance.
Listen back here.
Kerson’s episode will be broadcast live on Saturday, April 8 at 10 am to noon ET on CBC Music/Radio 2 as well as streamed live here.
Audio from the episode will already be available from Friday morning, April 7, here.
Kerson’s 2nd album for Alpha Classics, featuring the violin concertos of Benjamin Britten and Max Bruch and recorded in London, UK with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Patrick Hahn, will be released next month. Single and pre-order now available.
An article featuring Kerson ahead of his performances of Tchaikovsky concerto with l’Orchestre Métropolitain and l’Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke next month – read here.
Kerson joins violinist Livia Sohn and NY Philharmonic oboist Ryan Roberts as well as the Rockport Chamber Orchestra for a program of Bach and Arvo Pärt among others. Details can be found here.
Application deadline is April 11. Details can be found here.
A virtual conversation between Kerson and Eric Friesen for Ottawa Chamberfest’s ‘Chamber Chats’ on Oct 14 is now available to view in full here.
A virtual solo recital given this past June at Montreal’s Salle Bourgie is now available on demand on medici.tv as part of their ‘The best of violin’ playlist. Link here.
“[Kerson] Leong, who is relatively new on the scene, has been memorably described by his fellow fiddler [Jonathan] Crow as not just one of Canada’s greatest violinists but “one of the greatest violinists, period”…”
Read the full article here.