Sunday, August 8, 1999
A Piano/Composition recital
by Felice Kuan

Program


Suite pour le piano Claude Debussy
Prélude
Sarabande
Toccata

Etude, Op.25, No.7 Frederick Chopin
Ballade No.4, Op.52

Prelude, Op.34, No. 10 Dmitri Shostakovich

Mephisto Waltz No.1 Franz Liszt

Felice Kuan, Piano

"To a Very Young Lady" (Edmund Wallace) Felice Kuan
"Grass" (Carl Sandburg)

Piano Trio Felice Kuan

Felice Kuan, Cello
Aaron Kuan, Violin
Flora Lu Kuan, Piano


Felice Kuan, an honors scholarship student at the Julliard Pre-College
Division, started piano studies with her mother at age three. At seven she
made her debut as piano soloist with the Westchester Conservatory Orchestra,
and at the age of eight she won First Prize in the International Young
Artist's Competition in Washington D.C. She has been a guest artist at the
Arcade Music Festival in Mine in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, and 1999, and she
has performed at the 1994 International Children's Festival in St.
Petersburg, Russia. She was featured as concerto soloist with the Empire
State Youth Orchestra in Troy Music Hall in 1998 and will be featured as
soloist with the Sage City Symphony in Vermont this October. Her piano
teachers include Oxana Yablonskaya, Elena Tatulyan, and Dr. Flora Lu Kuan.
Her recent piano awards include a scholarship to the 1998 Tanglewood Piano
Institute and first prizes in the 1998 Parillo Piano Competition sponsored by
the Schenectady Symphony, and the 1997 Lyman Concerto Competition sponsored
by the Empire State Youth Orchestra.

She is also principal cellist of the Empire State Youth Orchestra, which
performed in Carnegie Hall and at Tanglewood last season. She is a member of
the Arcade Youth Quartet, which will be featured on Maine Public Radio and in
the Arcade Music Festival this summer.

When Felice was 10, she won First Prize in the International Children's
Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia for her piano compositions. Currently she
studies composition with Ira Taxin at the Juilliard School. Her
Compositions, "Spring" for chorus, "Piano Trio", and her art songs have all
been premiered at the Juilliard School. Her "Piano Trio" will be featured at
the Arcade Music Festival in Maine this summer.

Felice Kuan was recently awarded as the first prize winner of the Concurs
International de Piano, at the Festival de Música Clàssica in Puigcerdà,
Spain, in July 1999. Felice is one of the students at the 9th Annual Summer
Festival at Walnut Hill receiving lessons from Mr. Yin Cheng-Zong, Ms.
Pi-Hsien Chen, and Mr. Hung-Kuan Chen.

Summer Music Festival