Tales From the Piano by Bernardo Santos

Bernardo Santos arrives in Thailand not with fanfare but with force – the quiet, deliberate kind that only a piano can deliver. Hailing from Portugal, and carrying the weighty title of WPTA president like it’s just another Tuesday, he’s played on stages in over 20 countries. But numbers barely scratch the surface. This is not about technical precision or polite applause. It’s about Beethoven’s brooding, Liszt’s swagger, Villa-Lobos’ wild nostalgia. Fragoso and Granados slip in like ghosts – familiar, if you know where to listen. Santos doesn’t perform so much as unearth. Keys become confessions. Every note stretches time a little thinner. And in a world oversaturated with noise, he reminds us what it means to really hear something – to sit still and be ruined, beautifully, for a moment. Jun 8. B500-2,500 via here. Sala Sudasiri Sobha, 4pm onwards