The 23rd Annual Music
Festival at Walnut Hill
胡桃山音樂營
July 24
to August 17, 2014
Concerts
and Master Classes
Admission free.
Suggested Donation $5 at door
Friday, August 1st, 2014, 7:30 PM
at Boswell Recital Hall
Hung-Kuan Chen陳宏寬, piano
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~Program~
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart Fragment of a Suite, KV. 399
A little Gigue, KV. 574
Rondo in A minor, KV. 511
Sonata in A minor, KV. 310
Franz Schubert Sonata in C
minor, D. 958
Allegro
Adagio
Menuetto: Allegro ・ Trio
Allegro
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Steinway piano provided
by M. Steinert & Sons
Meet The Artists |
Hung-Kuan Chen
陳宏寬, Pianist
“This
man plays music with uncommon understanding and the instrument with
uncommon imagination…” -- Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
“…rarely have I heard such eloquence and musical understanding. Is
anyone listening?” -- Ruth Laredo
Hung-Kuan Chen has been described as one of the great
personalities of the music world: enigmatic, brilliant, and
versatile. And he is admired both as a performer of
uncompromising individuality and as a remarkably inspiring
teacher.
Born in Taipei and raised in Germany, Chen's early studies
fostered strong roots in Germanic classicism, which he tempered
with the sensibility of Chinese philosophy: the result is a
dynamic and imaginative artistry. He is regarded as an
extraordinary interpreter of Beethoven’¦s music.
Chen’¦s career was launched when he won First Prize in the Young
Concert Artist’¡¦ Auditions, which presented him in his New York
debut on the Young Concert Artists Series and followed it with a
second major New York concert at Lincoln Cent’r¡¦s Alice Tully
Ha One of the most decorated pianists of his generation, Mr.
Chen won top prizes in the Arthur Rubinstein, the Busoni and the
Geza Anda International Piano Competitions, along with prizes in
the Queen Elisabeth, Montreal, Van Cliburn, and Chopin
International Competition. He is a recipient of the prestigious
Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Chen has performed in the major cities of Asia, Europe, and the
Americas, where he has appeared with many important orchestras,
including Houston, Baltimore, Israel, Montreal, Pittsburgh, the
Tonhalle, San Francisco, and Shanghai. He has performed with
such highly esteemed conductors as Hans Graf, Christoph
Eschenbach, George Cleve, Joseph Silverstein, Andrew Parrott,
and Sui Lan, and colleagues including Yo-Yo Ma, Cho-Liang Lin,
Roman Totenberg, Denes Zsigmondy, Bion Tsang, Anthony Gigliotti,
David Shifrin, Laurence Lesser, and pianists Tema Blackstone and
Pi-hsien Chen.
Chen was chair of the piano department of Shanghai Conservatory
and continues to co-direct the International Piano Academy in
Shanghai. Previously he was on the faculty of Boston University
and was a Distinguished Artist in Residence at Mount Royal
University in Canada. He has been a Professor at New England
Conservatory of Music and the Yale University. He will start
teaching at the Juilliard School starting September of 2014.
Chen has adjudicated International Piano Competitions such as
the Van Cliburn, Busoni, and Honens, and is known as a brilliant
and devoted teacher.
In 1992, Chen suffered an injury to his hand that caused
neurological damage and eventually resulted in Focal Dystonia.
Through Qi Gong meditation and his own unique research, he was
able to heal and return to his life as a concert artist. In
1998, his first post-accident solo recital received rave
reviews, and he was described as a transformed artist. Following
his 2006 Jordan Hall concert, Richard Dyer wrote in The Boston
Globe: "Hung-Kuan Chen is back in prime technical form after
years of struggle following an injury, but those years have made
him a different pianist, and a better one. This man plays music
with uncommon understanding and the instrument with uncommon
imagination."
Hung-Kuan Chen recently completed a concert tour playing in San
Francisco, Boston, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other major cities
worldwide. This followed his 2008 concert in Stern Auditorium of
New York's Carnegie Hall and major engagements in Asia in 2009.
His Jordan Hall recital was the first in a series of live
recordings he is projected to complete in 2016.
Hung-Kuan Chen is represented by Opus 3 Artists & Blackstone
Artist Management.
Artist Diploma, New England
Conservatory. Studies with Russell Sherman. Current director of
the International Piano Academy in Shanghai. Former
Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Mount Royal Conservatory in
Canada. Former piano chair of Shanghai Conservatory, former
faculty of Boston University and New England Conservatory.
Current professor at the Juilliard School and the Yale
University.
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Thank you
for your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts
updated 2014 |
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