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Widely Regarded As One Of The U.K.’s Leading Piano Duos Piano 4 Hands Are Regular Performers At London’s Wigmore Hall And South Bank Centre. Joseph Tong And Waka Hasegawa Were Prize Winners At The 2003 Tokyo International Piano Duo Competition And At The Schubert International Competition In The Czech Republic. The Duo Has Given Recitals In Japan Germany Spain And The USA As Well As Live Broadcasts For BBC Radio 3 And WFMT Radio In Chicago. Since Their Critically Acclaimed London Debut For The Park Lane Group In 2002 Joseph Tong And Waka Hasegawa Have Given A Number Of Successful Wigmore Hall Recitals Promoted By The Kirckman Concert Society. Piano 4 Hands Has Performed At Many Of The Major Concert Venues Around The UK Including Bridgewater Hall In Manchester St David’s Hall Cardiff St George’s Bristol And The Turner Sims Hall In Southampton And Also At Festivals Such As Buxton Cheltenham Bury St Edmunds Chichester Dulwich Guildford And York. Piano 4 Hands Debut CD Of Debussy Piano Duets For Quartz Was Chosen As Album Of The Week In The Independent And Received 5 Stars In BBC Music Magazine. Subsequent Recordings Of Schubert Duets And Piano Music By John McCabe Have Met With Similar Critical Acclaim Including Glowing Reviews In The Sunday Times Gramophone And International Record Review. A Number Of Composers Have Written New Works For The Duo Including Dai Fujikura Robert Keeley Nicola LeFanu Edwin Roxburgh And John McCabe Whose Piano Duet Upon Entering A Painting They Premièred At Wigmore Hall In 2009 And Duet Version Of ‘Two Scenes From Edward II’ They Also Premièred For City Music Society At Bishopsgate Hall In March 2013. Their Most Recent Collaboration Is A Co-Commission With The Cheltenham Music Festival Funded By The Britten-Pears Foundation Of A New Work For Two Pianos By Dai Fujikura Which Piano 4 Hands Will Première This Summer. Joseph Tong And Waka Hasegawa Were Elected Associates Of The Royal Academy Of Music In 2008 And Have Been Selected For The Making Music Concert Promoters’ Group Scheme This Season. They Are Founders And Artistic Directors Of The Bristol International Piano Duo Festival Held Biennially At St George’s Bristol And The University Of Bristol. The Next Festival Will Be Held In March 2014. Other Upcoming Engagements Include A Return To Wigmore Hall In July 2013 With A Two Pianos Programme Featuring Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring To Mark The Ballet’s 100th Anniversary And Performances At The Oundle International Festival Cheltenham Festival Fairfield Halls The Wiltshire Music Centre Leeds University And Music Societies Across The UK. read less