Chan Man-chi Clarinet Recital - Unfinished Realm 2026

After years based in Europe, Taiwanese clarinettist Chan Man-chi returns home for a recital that pairs the German and French clarinet traditions with a deliberately feminist lens. Joined by Swiss-based pianist Hu Rong, the programme moves from Brahms's autumnal Second Clarinet Sonata - one of the last works of a composer at the end of his life - through the fierce solo demands of Bruno Mantovani's Bug and Clara Schumann's Three Romances, re-arranged for clarinet and piano. The second half opens with Debussy's Première Rhapsodie, all shimmering French colour, before Pei-Lin Wu's The Heron Maiden weaves in a Taiwanese contemporary voice, and Max Reger's Third Sonata closes the night with late-Romantic breadth. It is a programme that holds the clarinet's full expressive range - lyrical, virtuosic, intimate, orchestral - within a single evening. The recital is held in the Recital Hall of the National Theater and Concert Hall, the same intimate venue used for chamber recitals across the National Performing Arts Centre season. Tickets start at NT$400, an accessible entry point for a programme of this calibre.