Grand Piano on the Spotlight: 9th QVB Pop-Up

25 July 2026 – The Queen Victoria Building (QVB) has long been known for its beloved community grand piano since its initial donation in the 1980's. The piano was since replaced in October 2025 through the donation of Concerts for All, and it has been the highlight of QVB's monthly Classical Pop-Up Concerts held every 4th Saturday of the month.

This time, with a piano-centric concert program, the 9th Classical Pop-Up Concert put the new grand piano under the spotlight. Several award-winning young pianists took to the stage.

Program

The afternoon's program featured the new QVB piano's versatility across different musical eras:

The concert began with Laura Lan's lively performance of Scarlatti’s Sonata in A Major K. 209 – her first ever performance with Concerts for All. Then Ian Wu followed and filled the QVB with the sweeping arpeggios and dense textures of Blumenfeld’s Étude de concert, Op. 24.

Angel Quingaiza, a returning performer of our classical pop-up series, paired the intricate, interwoven contrapuntal lines of Bach's French Suite No. 6 in E Major (VIII. Gigue) with the sustained, liquid harmonic wash of Chopin’s Étude Op. 25 No. 1. Eason Zhuo also returned to the Concerts for All stage for his second pop-up performance, delivering the bright melodies and structural elegance of the Allegro from Mozart’s Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, KV. 333.

The concert culminated in a powerful collaborative display featuring violinist Harry Wang, a frequent and valued guest artist in our community concerts, alongside acclaimed Young Steinway Artist Jack Cheng. Together, they demonstrated the piano's capacity to act as an equal, dynamic partner in chamber music. They played the rhapsodic, folk-infused themes of the Allegro ma non troppo from Dvořák’s Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53, before concluding with Chen Gang’s evocative The Golden Furnace.

Watch the performance highlights