Joseph Tong

Pianist Joseph Tong is a versatile player with wide experience in solo piano, duo piano, and chamber music repertory. He is also a noted educator. Tong frequently performs with pianist Waka Hasegawa as part of the duo Piano 4 Hands, and the pair has been in demand around Britain. It was with Hasegawa that Tong made his recording debut in 2009 with the album Schubert: Piano Duets. Tong often plays the works of Sibelius and Schumann and has performed them on tour. Tong was set to premiere a new set of solo piano pieces by David Matthews at the Three Choirs Festival in the summer of 2022. In 2022, he backed violinist Fenella Humphreys on an album of Sibelius works for violin and piano.