Followers of the Sydney International Piano Competition (now known simply as The Sydney) will remember 12-year-old Cairns schoolboy Reuben Tsang taking the place by storm in 2016 with his performance of Chopin and Beethoven as part of the showcase for young Australians.

Then last year he took out the Nancy Weir Best Australian Prize, as well as winning multiple other awards and being the second youngest soloist to make it through to the competition’s semi-finals. Now he is giving four East Coast concerts organised by Piano+, presenters and producers of The Sydney, to show a wider audience his impressive array of talents.

Playing a wide-ranging selection of works from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic genres, the tall and confident Tsang left listeners with no doubt that he lives up to the concert flyer’s hype of being “an extraordinary performer with a stellar career ahead of him”.

Reuben Tsang. Photo © Jay Patel

The evening got off to a bright start with three Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, with some neat cross hand work in the D major K119, impressive trills in the C major K132 and a smooth handling of the...