Other recent projects include a new commission from the British composer David Matthews, a set of ‘Five Trees’ which Joseph premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in 2022. He also performed the new work at the Sibelius Museum in Turku as part of a collaboration with the Åbo University Foundation, recording a third album of Sibelius’ piano music which was released in 2023.

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Joseph Tong has made several critically acclaimed recordings as a soloist and chamber musician including a disc of Schumann, released in 2019 on the Quartz label, which was awarded Instrumental Choice in BBC Music Magazine. Much in demand as a collaborative pianist, his recording of Sibelius works for violin and piano with the British violinist Fenella Humphreys on Resonus Classics was selected as ‘Chamber Choice’ in BBC Music Magazine in 2022 and featured on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review programme. He has also made piano duet recordings of Schubert, Debussy and McCabe in his longstanding duo with Waka Hasegawa, with whom he performed at Wigmore Hall in London, at Music Festivals including Cheltenham, Buxton, York and Oundle as well as in Japan and USA. He also performs regularly with his brother Daniel, having appeared on Radio 3’s In Tune together and giving recent piano duet recitals at Conway Hall in London, St David’s Hall Cardiff, and the Laidlaw Music Centre at the University of St Andrews.

In 2022 he returned to Wigmore Hall to give a solo recital featuring Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy, marking 200 years since the work was written. Other recent highlights include solo recitals in Spain and Germany, including the Sendesaal in Bremen and Kloster Konzerte in St Blasien, St George’s Bristol, Chichester Cathedral, Hatchlands in Surrey and the Presteigne Festival in Wales. A passionate advocate for new music, Joseph gave the world premiere of Lara Poe’s Koivunrungot Kaarella at Presteigne last summer and has recently commissioned a new work, ‘The Willows Suite’, from the Finnish pianist-composer Terhi Dostal.

Joseph Tong was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 2008 and is a visiting teacher at Wells Cathedral School and Coordinator of the Wells International Piano Summer School. He is also an adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals.