Ben-San Lau

We are welcoming back our alums to the Studio for a series of free recitals. This is an opportunity for them to try out new programmes, repertoire, or even styles – and for our audiences to follow their journeys since leaving the Studio.

Ben-San Lau

San was born in Manchester and trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, the National Opera Studio, and the Opera National de Paris. He is currently a freelance pianist and repetiteur, working regularly for Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera. As a recitalist he has performed at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Centre, the Oxford Lieder and Buxton Festivals, Snape Maltings, and the lnternationaal Lied Festival Zeist. He was a recipient of a Musician’s Company Concert Award supported by the Concordia Foundation, a prize winner in the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform, and a Britten-Pears Young Artist.

Recent projects include Tales of Apollo and Hercules for the London Handel Festival, Judith Weir’s woman.life.song for Birmingham Opera Company, and Glyndebourne’s first-ever production of Wagner’s Parsifal. In autumn 2025 he returns to Glyndebourne for Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and to the Oxford International Song Festival for John Casken’s The Shackled King alongside Rozanna Madylus and Sir John Tomlinson.

Programme

Debussy Préludes

Selection

Szymanowski Mazurkas Op.50

Vivace (Junacko)

Allegretto dolce (Naiwnie i sentymentalnie)

Allegramente (Vigoroso)

Chopin Sonata No.3 in B minor Op.58

1. Allegro maestoso
2. Scherzo (Molto vivace)
3. Largo
4. Presto non tanto