About MODI DENG

Modi is a pianist and writer from Aotearoa New Zealand.
 
Her solo performances have included a Wigmore Hall appearance and concerti with several of New Zealand’s major orchestras. As a chamber musician, Modi performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2018) and collaborated in a Thomas Adès quartet with Adrian Brendel at Wigmore Hall (2022). In London, she gave the world premiere of Yuka Takechi’s Nofretete and directed a multimedia production with award-winning contemporary dancer Matthew Rawcliffe.
 
In 2018, she received first prize in the NZ National Concerto Competition, performing Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 3 with Benjamin Northey. Other awards include first in the Royal Overseas-League Arts Scholarship (NZ, 2018) and second prizes in the Lilian Davies Beethoven Sonata Competition (UK, 2021); Wallace National Piano Competition (NZ, 2015).
 
Modi’s teachers have included Joanna MacGregor (Royal Academy of Music), Rae de Lisle, Stephen De Pledge and Tom McGrath. Her performance of Clara Schumann’s concerto was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, ABC Radio, and RNZ Concert.
 
As a writer, her first poetry collection is part of AUP New Poets 8 (2021).

MODI DENG IN SOLO RECITAL - ‘ON DISTANCE’
SATURDAY 26TH JULY 8PM
TICKETS $27 | CONCESSION $22

PROGRAM

Franz LISZT Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S. 171

Claire COWAN Shadow Hands (2005)

Gillian WHITEHEAD Outlines Through Rising Mist (2009)

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Franz LISZT Transcendental Etude No. 12 ‘Chasse-Neige’

Frédéric CHOPIN Sonata No. 3 in B minor