Piano sensation Tom Borrow performs in Vancouver, April 23
International Piano Magazine calls the 22-year-old Israeli artist “the very definition of ‘one to watch’”
Tom Borrow.
Vancouver Recital Society presents Tom Borrow on April 23 at 3 pm at the Vancouver Playhouse
PIANIST TOM BORROW’S upcoming Vancouver performance is one that could earn local viewers bragging rights. “Tom Borrow will become a major star,” says La Scena Musicale, while Gramophone and International Piano Magazine have both called him “one to watch”. The 2021 BBC New Generation Artist is “sensational”, according to The Cleveland Plain Dealer: “In a world teeming with gifted young pianists, Borrow stands out with a touch that's both light and powerful, and supremely incandescent."
Born in Tel Aviv, Borrow studies at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University. He has won every national piano competition in Israel, including first prize at the Israeli Radio & Jerusalem Symphony Young Artist Competition, and performed as soloist with all of the major orchestras of his home country.
In 2019, Borrow stepped in to replace renowned pianist Khatia Buniatishvili in a series of 12 concerts with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. With only 36 hours’ notice, he performed Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G to critical acclaim.
Since then, Borrow has been invited to play with major orchestras around the world, including London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Sao Paulo Symphony, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Basque National Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony, among others.
At the Vancouver Recital Society concert, Borrow perform Bach’s Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971; Franck’s Prélude, Choral et Fugue, FWV 21; Scriabin’s Sonata No. 5, Op. 53; and Rachmaninov’s Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42.
See Vancouver Recital Society for more information.
