August 22, 2005
Monday, 3:00 PM
Piano Master Class
Mr. Russell Sherman
Program
Beethoven: Sonata Op. 27, No. 1
David Ta-Wei Tsai, piano
Schubert: Piano Sonata D.959 in A major
Allegro
Andantino
Scherzo - Allegro vivace
Rando Allegretto
Jannie Lo, piano
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz
Grace Shu-Hui Yang, piano
Mr. Russell Sherman
An active recitalist internationally, pianist Russell Sherman celebrated
his 75th birthday year and the 2000-2001 season with critically and publicly acclaimed
engagements highlighted by performances at New York's Alice Tully Hall, Sarasota's Van
Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a concert series at
Boston's Jordan Hall, and concerts in Spain and Korea. During the 2001-2002 season, his
Boston performances have included appearances with the Pro Arte Orchestra and on the
Celebrity Series In the spring of 2002, Mr. Sherman repeated his all Beethoven recital and
performed Liszt's Transcendental Études at the University of Texas at Austin, before
embarking on a recital tour in Australia. His recording with Monadnock Music of the
Beethoven Piano Concertos was released late in 2001 by GM, which has also released his
recordings of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas. He has also recorded on the Albany
label. He has performed with major orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of
St. Luke's, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony and the San Francisco
Symphony. Abroad, Mr. Sherman has played in the major cities of Austria, Canada, the Czech
Republic, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Korea, Russia and South America. In
recital, Russell Sherman has appeared on Carnegie Hall's Keyboard Virtuosos Series,
California's Ambassador Foundation Series, the Distinguished Artists series at New York's
Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd St. Y, the Bank of Boston Celebrity Series, at
Columbia University's Miller Theatre, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Chicago's
Orchestra Hall. He has also appeared at the Ravinia Festival, the Hollywood Bowl and the
Mostly Mozart Festival. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and is currently
a Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at the New England Conservatory.
Mr. David Ta-Wei Tsai from Taiwan is a rising junior at Walnut Hill
School majoring in piano under Ms. Sylvia Chambless. He was the 2nd prize winner of the
2005 Steinway Society of Massachusetts Piano Competition, and the first prize winner of
the 2000 Taiwan National Yamaha Piano Competition.
Miss Jannie Lo began to learn the piano at the age of three. A sophomore
at Peabody Conservatory of John Hopkins University, she currently studies with Boris
Slutsky. Her past principal teachers include Rui-Xing Li and Mack McCray. She has received
first prizes from the Ross McKee Piano Foundation, the Pacific Musical Society, the San
Francisco Young Pianists Competition, the Stravinsky Awards International Piano
Competition. From 2001-2003, she was keyboardist of the San Francisco Symphony Youth
Orchestra. She appeared in San Francisco Noontime Concerts since the age of ten, and
performed with the Fremont Symphony Orchestra, and at the Junior Bach Festival. In New
York City, she appeared in a Young Virtuosos Gala Concert in Weill Recital
Hall in Carnegie Hall. In 2004, she was selected and attended the TCU/Cliburn Piano
Institute in Forth Worth, TX. She has been coached by Leon Fleisher, Vladimir Feltsman,
Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jerome Lowenthal, and the Peabody Trio.
Miss Grace Shu-Hui Yang is a freshman at National Taiwan Normal
University majoring in piano and minor in violin. She was the top prizes winner of the
2001 Taipei City Piano Competition, and the 2000 Chang-Hua City Piano Competition in
Taiwan. She was chosen to play at the master class by Professor Boris Berman of Yale
University in 2005. Miss Yang was selected as the soloist this year, together with Mr. Ita
Wang, to perform with Longwood Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Jonathan McPhee.
Summer Music Festival