Saturday, August 7, 1999
Faculty Recital
Lynn Chang, violin
Bion Tsang, cello
Hung-Kuan Chen, piano

Program

The Stream Flows for violin solo (1990)* Bright Sheng

Sonata for violin and piano Poulenc
Allegro con Fuoco
Intermezzo
Presto Tragico

Variations on a Theme of Paganini Brahms

- Intermission -

Sonata No.10, Op.70 Scriabin

Sonata No.1 for cello and piano Debussy
Prologue: Lent
Serenade: Moderement anime
Finale: Anime

* (Commissioned by Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts, 1990.
World premiere: October 20, 1990 by violinist Nai-Yuan Hu
at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston)

The Faculty Members who are performing tonight (in alphabetical order):
Lynn Chang, violin. The top prize winner of the 1975 International Paganini
Competition, has appeared at Wolf Trap, the Great Woods Festival, the
Marlboro Music Festival, and at Tanglewood. He is a founding member of the
Boston Chamber Music Society. He has performed as soloist with numerous
orchestras around the world, including those in Atlanta, Miami, Salt Lake
City, Oakland, Seattle, Honolulu, Beijing, Taipei, and Hong Kong. He has
appeared several times on the PBS television series "Live from Lincoln
Center." He frequently collaborates with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, their recording
of Leon Kirchner's "Triptych" for violin and cello was recently released on
Sony Classical. He performed with Dawn Upshaw on her Grammy Award-winning
album, "The Girl with the Orange Lips." His recording on New World Records
of William Grant Still's "Suite" has been highly acclaimed. Mr. Chang also
recorded Ivan Tcherepnin's Grawmeyer Award winning Double Concerto which was
commissioned for and premiered by Mr. Chang and cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1995.
The sold-out performance was hailed as "world class." Currently, Mr. Chang
teaches violin and chamber music at MIT, the New England Conservatory, Tufts,
Boston Conservatory, and Boston University. Mr. Chang Began his musical
studies at the age of 7 under Mr. Alfred Krips. He continued his studies at
the Julliard School under the Tutelage of Ivan Galamian. A native of Boston,
Mr. Chang received his BA in Music from Harvard University 1975.

Hung-Kuan Chen, piano. A native of Taiwan, Mr. Chen went to Germany as a
young teenager, where he attended German state music schools. Later he
continued his musical training at Boston University and New England
Conservatory where he received his Artist Diploma. Mr. Chen has won gold
medals in two of the most prestigious international piano competitions in the
world: the Busoni Competition in 1982 and the Arthur Rubinstein Competition
in 1983. He was also awarded top prizes of the Geza Anda, the Van Cliburn,
the Chopin International Competition, the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, and the
Montreal Competitions. He received the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1991.
Mr. Chen's achievements have taken him throughout the world in numerous
concert engagement. He has appeared as soloist with many orchestras,
including the Pittsburgh , the Baltimore, the Houston, the Tonhalle, the
Jerusalem Symphony, among others. In 1992, Mr. Chen withdrew from the
concert world due to an external accident to his right hand. After a long
period of absence, he is making his comeback. Mr. Chen has been a member of
the piano faculty at Boston University since 1985. Currently, he also teaches
at the New England Conservatory.

Bion Tsang, cello. Mr. Tsang has been internationally recognized as one of
the outstanding instrumentalist. Among his many honors are a 1992 Avery
Fisher Career Grant, a 1990 MEF Career Grant, and the Bronze Medal in the IX
International Tchaikovsky Competition. He has appeared with such orchestras
as the New York Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the National
Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic,
the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and the Taiwan
National Orchestra. His career as a chamber musician has been equally
distinguished, marked by collaborations with violinists Jaime Laredo,
Cho-Liang Lin, Anne Aikiko Meyers, and Kyoko Takezawa, violist Michael Tree,
cellist Yo-Yo Ma and double bassist Gary Karr. He is a frequent guest artist
of the Boston Chamber Music Society and performs at festivals such as
Marlboro Music, the Portland and Seattle Chamber Music Festivals, and Bravo!
Colorado and the Laurel Festival of the Arts, where he serves as Artistic
Director. Mr. Tsang made his professional debut at age eleven in two
concerts with Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic and the performance
was broadcast world wide on the CBS "Festival of Lively Arts" television
series. He was the youngest cellist ever to receive a Gregor Piatigorsky
Memorial Prize and the youngest recipient ever of an Artists International
Award. Mr. Tsang began piano studies at age six and cello at age seven. The
following year, he entered the Juilliard School to study cello with Ardyth
Alton. He received his BA from Harvard University and his Master of Musical
Arts from Yale University.
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