Robin Michael – cello
Daniel Tong – piano

Beethoven 7 Variations on Mozart’s Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen
Beethoven Sonata in C, Op. 102, No. 1
Beethoven Sonata in D, Op. 102, No. 2

Robin Michael and Daniel Tong have performed the Beethoven cycle throughout the UK and in France. Robin is principal cellist with Les Siècles and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Daniel is pianist of the London Bridge Trio and director of the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival. Their CD of the complete Beethoven works for cello and piano, recorded with a copy of an 1805 Walter fortepiano, is due for release by Resonus early in 2020.

Daniel Tong was born in Cornwall and studied in London. His musical life is spent performing as soloist and chamber musician, as well as directing two chamber music festivals. He has appeared at many of the foremost British venues and festivals – Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre, St Georges Bristol, Birmingham Town Hall, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh as well as the Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and Edinburgh Festivals.

Robin Michael studied at the Royal Academy of Music with David Strange and Colin Carr and later with Ferenc Rados. Recent concert highlights include complete Bach and Britten suite cycles in France and London, the South Korean premier of Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Advaya’ for cello and electronics, both Haydn concertos at the Spier festival in South Africa as well as festival appearances in Buenos Aires, Library of Congress, Washington, and European festivals including Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and St. Magnus.