Sirius Chau – flute
Kumi Matsuo – piano

JS Bach Sonata in G minor, BWV 1020 Listen
Ray Leung As the Wind Resonates
Carl Reinecke Flute Sonata (Undine) Listen
John Rutter Prelude, Ostinato, Aria & Waltz: Suite Antique Listen

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.

Winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Competition 2020, Hong-Kong-born flautist Sirius Chau has recently been named a 2021 City Music Foundation Artist. He was awarded a Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist Award, and has previously been selected as an Artist by the Tillett Trust, Talent Unlimited, Manchester Mid-Day Concerts Society and Musicus Society in Hong Kong. He received the Tagore Gold Medal from HRH The Prince of Wales and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Scholarship in 2019 and made his solo debuts at the Wigmore Hall and Bridgewater Hall in the same year. Recent orchestral experience includes working with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, English National Opera Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra. He won the Best Performance Award at Hamamatsu International Festival and first prize at the Magalif’s International Competition, Eastbourne Soloist Competition and Westbourne Orchestra Competition. Sirius studied at the Royal College of Music in London for an Artist Diploma and Master of Music (Distinction) with Katie Bedford, Emer McDonough and Sue Thomas, generously supported by the Drake Calleja Trust and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund. For more information visit www.siriuschau.com

Kumi Matsuo studied at the Toho Gakuen College of Music in Tokyo, and then at the Royal College of Music in London with John Blakely and Ashley Wass. She completed her studies there with the award of the prestigious Artist Diploma with Distinction. In 2012 she won First Prize in the 6th Isidor Bajic Memorial Piano Competition in Serbia, and in 2013 won First Prize in the 5th Louisiana International Piano Competition in the USA. She is now on the staff at RCM, working as Duo Coach to the String Faculty, as well as accompanying other instruments. Kumi has performed concerto with the Symphony Orchestras of Tokyo, Galicia, Banatul in Romania, Rapides in Louisiana, USA, Constanza in Romania, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and RCM orchestras. As soloist and chamber musician, Kumi has played extensively in the UK, the USA, France, Holland, Poland, Romania, India and Japan. She made her New York debut at Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall in 2014 and gave an extended recital tour in Louisiana in 2015.