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
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~Program~
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
Divertimento in E flat, K. 563, for String Trio
Allegro
Adagio
Minuet
Andante
Minuet
Allegro
~Intermission~
Antonín Dvořák
Quartet in E flat, Op. 87, for Piano Quartet
Allegro con fuoco
Lento
Allegro moderato, grazioso
Finale: Allegro ma non troppo
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Steinway piano provided
by M. Steinert & Sons
Meet The Artists |
Nai-Yuan
Hu
胡乃元,
violinist
Since
winning the First Prize in the prestigious Queen Elisabeth
International Competition of Belgium in 1985, violinist Nai-Yuan
Hu has appeared on many of the world’s stages, including the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Avery Fisher Hall in New York and
major venues in London, Paris, Munich, Tokyo and other cities in
Europe, North and South Americas and Asia. In praise of his
playing, BBC Music Magazine wrote, “Taiwanese violinist Nai-Yuan
Hu is an awesomely capable performer whose technical facility,
musical intelligence and unfaltering verve place him among the
higher echelons of today’s string virtuosi.”
Mr. Hu’s solo engagements include appearances with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Toronto Symphony, Seattle
Symphony, Netherland and Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras,
Liège Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille in France, Haifa
Symphony, Austro-Hungarian Haydn Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo
Philharmonic and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, the National
Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Taipei City Symphony, China and
Hong Kong Philharmonic orchestras and others. With the Belgian
National Orchestra, he toured throughout Germany in such cities
as Munich, Hannover and Dortmund. He has collaborated with such
conductors as George Cleve, Adam Fischer, Leon Fleisher, Gunther
Herbig, Emmanuel Krivine, Jahja Ling, Shao-Chia Lu, Jean-Bernard
Pommier, Gerard Schwarz, Maxim Shostakovich, and Hubert Soudant,
among others.
Mr. Hu has given recitals in such venues as Alice Tully Hall and
Weill Recital Hall in New York, Cité de la Musique in Paris,
Purcell Room in London, Casals Hall in Tokyo, and Jordan Hall in
Boston where he premiered Bright Sheng’s “The Stream Flows” in
1990. Other engagements include appearances in Los Angeles,
Washington D.C., Dallas, Montreal, Toronto, Brussels, Antwerp,
Rotterdam, The Hague, Toledo (Spain), Bergen (Norway), Seoul,
Beijing and Shanghai. In Taiwan, he was the featured soloist in
the 1987 Inaugural Concert of the National Concert Hall and
performed in special concerts for two successive Presidents in
the Presidential Palace.
In summer seasons, Mr. Hu has appeared either as a guest soloist
or chamber music artist in such festivals as Mostly Mozart,
Marlboro, OK Mozart, Seattle, Grand Teton and Newport. A chamber
music enthusiast, he has collaborated with such musicians as Fou
Ts’ong, Martha Argerich, and Misha Maisky in the 1999 Beijing
Music Festival, and participated in the Lincoln Center Chamber
Music Society concerts and Brooklyn’s Bargemusic series. Mr. Hu
is the music director of Taiwan Connection Music Festival, which
he founded in 2004 to promote chamber music in his homeland. In
2007, TC String Orchestra, consisting of young talented
Taiwanese musicians, was formed. Two years later, a full
complement of winds was incorporated into the group, which
became TC Chamber Orchestra. In 2010, performing without a
conductor, the TC musicians tackled Beethoven Eroica Symphony to
critical acclaims.
Mr. Hu’s recording of Goldmark’s Concerto and Bruch’s Concerto
No. 2 with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony on Delos
label, garnered “Critics’ Choice” from Gramophone as well as
praises from many publications including BBC Music Magazine, The
Times of London, and The Washington Post. His solo violin album
Unaccompanied… on EMI label (with cover and art work by the
popular Taiwanese cartoonist Jimmy) received two Golden Melody
Awards in Taiwan for the best classical album and
instrumentalist categories. A recording of much beloved music
from the fin-de siècle city, Vienna Revisted, was released in
2003. Mr. Hu has made recordings for Koch and Sunrise.
In 2001, Mr. Hu appeared in a cameo role as the rooftop
violinist serenading Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman in the Miramax
romantic comedy, Kate & Leopold. In that same year, he
collaborated with Lin Hwai-min and his Cloud Gate Dance Theater,
performing Taiwanese composer Hsu Tsang-Houei’s Five Preludes
for Solo Violin in an outdoor presentation that was attended by
over ten thousand people.
Born in Taiwan, Mr. Hu began studying the violin at age five and
was soloist with the National Youth Orchestra of Taiwan three
years later. He came to the United States in 1972 to continue
his studies, first with Broadus Erle and later with Joseph
Silverstein. At Indiana University, he studied with Josef
Gingold and also served as Gingold’s assistant after graduation.
Mr. Hu and his wife June Huang currently live in New York City.
(2013)
Scott Lee,
viola
Scott
Lee has established himself as one of the most exciting and
unique violists. His exceptional musicality and virtuositic
playing distinguish him as one of this generation's
quintessential artists. New York Times described his playing as
“flawless technical resources combines them with an assured
sense of musicianship, a remarkable and auspicious talent.”
Also, hailed as “the superstar of his generation” by the String
Magazine.
Winner of the 1996 Concert Artists Guild Competition, he became
the youngest winner in the Competition’s 50 year history. Mr.
Lee has been a top prize winner in the Lionel Tertis
International Viola Competition, the William Primrose Viola
Competition, and the Corpus Christi (TX) Young Artists
Competition. Scott Lee has appeared as soloist with numerous
orchestras, including, the Kansas City Symphony, San Diego
Symphony and L.A Chamber Orchestra. Other orchestral
performances include the Longmont Philharmonic, and the
International Sejong Soloists. In recital, he has performed at
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Hall in New York,
Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Scott Lee has been a featured
soloist at the International Hindemith Viola Festival and at the
22nd and 24th International Viola Congresses.
Scott Lee is also an extremely active chamber musician. Recent
highlights of Mr. Lee’s chamber music concert schedule include
performances at the El Paso Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber
Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, OK Mozart Festival,
Newport Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Ravinia
Festival, Savannah Music Festival, New York City’s Bargemusic,
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Musicians from
Marlboro, Merkin Concert Hall, and Taiwan’s National Concert
Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Gardner Museum in Boston and the
Metropolitan Museum, the Marlboro Festival and in numerous
chamber music venues across the United States. He has also
collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Orion, and
Miami String Quartets, and performed with members of the Beaux
Arts and Mannes Piano Trios. His chamber music partners have
included such renowned artists as Cho-Liang Lin, Nai-Yuan Hu,
Gil Shaham, Hilary Hahn, Ralph Kirshbaum, David Soyer, Peter
Wiley, and Gary Hoffman.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Mr. Lee began his music studies on the
violin at age eight studying with Chia-Rong Lin. He took up the
viola at age thirteen, and came to the United States the next
year to study at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California, where
his viola teacher was Donald McInnes and his violin teacher was
Alice Schoenfield. He has studied with Michael Tree at the
Curtis Institute of Music and at The Juilliard School where he
studied with Paul Neubauer.
He is now Professor of Viola at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music and a faculty
member at the Idyllwild Chamber Music Festival and Workshop in
California. Besides performing and teaching, Scott is also an
obsessed golfer, he is always looking for a game, carrying his
clubs.
(2012)
Bion Tsang
章雨亭, Cellist
www.biontsang.com
Cellist
Bion Tsang has been internationally recognized as one of the outstanding
instrumentalists of his generation: among his many honors are an Avery
Fisher Career Grant, an MEF Career Grant and the Bronze Medal in the IX
International Tchaikovsky Competition. Mr. Tsang earned a Grammy
nomination for his performance on the PBS special A Company of Voices:
Conspirare in Concert (Harmonia Mundi).
Mr. Tsang has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the New York,
Moscow and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, the National, American,
Pacific, Delaware and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras, the Saint Paul and
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, the Louisville Orchestra and the Taiwan
National Orchestra. In recent seasons, he made solo debuts at Orchestra
Hall in Chicago with Zubin Mehta and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, at
the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and
at the Esplanade in Boston with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra. He also
gave the U.S. premiere of the Enescu Symphonie Concertante, Op. 8 with
Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall,
the U.S. premiere of Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger Concerto for Cello Solo
and Chamber Orchestra at Atlanta’s Symphony Hall, the Boston premiere of
the Korngold Cello Concerto, Op. 37, and the world premiere of a new
concerto written for him by Noam David Elkies.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Tsang has collaborated with such artists as
violinists Pamela Frank, Jaime Laredo, Cho-¬‐Liang Lin, Anne Akiko
Meyers, Kyoko Takezawa and Chee Yun, violist Michael Tree, cellist Yo-¬‐Yo
Ma, bassist Gary Karr and pianist Leon Fleisher. He has been a frequent
guest artist of the Boston Chamber Music Society, Brooklyn Chamber Music
Society, Chamber Music International of Dallas, Da Camera of Houston,
Camerata Pacifica of Los Angeles and Bargemusic in New York and
performed at such festivals as Marlboro Music Festival, the Cape Cod,
Tucson, Portland and Seattle Chamber Music Festivals, the Bard Festival,
Bravo! Colorado, Music in the Vineyards and the Laurel Festival of the
Arts, where he served as Artistic Director for ten years.
Mr. Tsang’s discography includes the 2010 release from Artek Recordings,
Bion Tsang and Anton Nel: Live in Concert, Brahms Cello Sonatas and Four
Hungarian Dances, featuring original transcriptions of Joseph Joachim’s
violin arrangements of Brahms’ iconic Hungarian melodies. His
discography also includes the Kodaly works for solo cello as well as a
forthcoming set of the complete Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Cello
recorded on the 1713 “ Bass of Spain” Stradivarius. In an unusual twist,
he performed the Kodaly Op. 8 Solo Sonata in a production of There,
After... and the Bach Solo Suites in Plaza X, both by the Hong Kong City
Contemporary Dance Company. He has performed all six Bach Suites in one
sitting first in Austin and later in Seattle at Nordstrom Recital Hall
at Benaroya Hall. In addition, Mr. Tsang has toured the complete
Beethoven works for cello and piano with pianist Anton Nel in, among
other venues, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and Jordan Hall in Boston,
with the latter performance recorded by WGBH and commercially released
on the Artek label.
A versatile collaborator, Mr. Tsang was featured on the soundtrack to
Recapturing Cuba, a PBS documentary by Trinity Films, winning two Gold
Medals —Director’s Choice and Artistic Excellence—at the Park City Film
Music Festival, coincident to the Sundance Film Festival. He was also a
featured guest artist on the KLRU-¬‐TV and PBS television production, A
Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert, filmed in Dell Hall at the
Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, and aired nationally on
PBS stations during their March 2009 pledge drives.
Mr. Tsang made his professional debut at age eleven in two concerts with
Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic. That same year he returned to
perform two more concerts with Mehta and the Philharmonic. One of these
performances was broadcast worldwide on the CBS Festival of Lively Arts
television series. While still in his teens, he became the youngest
cellist ever to receive a Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Prize and the
youngest recipient ever of an Artists International Award. He was also
chosen as a Finalist of the NFAA’s Arts Recognition and Talent Search
and subsequently as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. At age nineteen,
Tsang became the youngest cellist to win a prize in the VIII
International Tchaikovsky Competition. He has been featured on America
Online as CultureFinder’s “Star Find of the Week,” on the Internet Cello
Society as “Artist of the Month,” and most recently in print in the book
21st-¬‐Century Cellists.
Born in Michigan of Chinese parents, Bion Tsang began piano studies at
age six and cello at age seven. The following year, he entered The
Juilliard School. Tsang received his Bachelor of Arts degree from
Harvard University and his Master of Musical Arts degree from Yale
University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot. His other principal
cello teachers have included Ardyth Alton, Luis Garcia-¬‐Renart, William
Pleeth, Channing Robbins, and Leonard Rose.
Mr. Tsang resides in Austin, TX where he is on the faculty of the Sarah
and Ernest Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin.
He was the recipient of the Texas Exes Teaching Award after just his
first year of service and soon after was named "Instrumentalist of the
Year" by the Austin Critics Table. He has also served as visiting
professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. In his spare time, Bion
helps his family run the Paul J. Tsang Foundation, a nonprofit
organization named in honor of Bion's father and formed to help
facilitate educational or career opportunities for promising students
and professionals in the arts and sciences. He also enjoys coaching NFL
Flag and i9 Sports flag football and, especially, trying to keep up with
his three children: Bailey (11), Henry (8) and Maia (5).
(August 2013)
Meng-Chieh Liu,
劉孟捷 piano
A
recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Meng-Chieh Liu
first made headlines in 1993 as a 21-year-old student at The Curtis
Institute of Music when he substituted at last minute's notice for André
Watts at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. The concert earned high
acclaim from critics and audience alike, and was followed by a number of
widely praised performances, including a recital at the Kennedy Center
and a concert on the Philadelphia All-Star Series. Already an
accomplished artist at the time, Mr. Liu had made his New York
orchestral debut two years earlier.
Following Mr. Liu's triumph in Philadelphia, an appearance with the
Philadelphia Orchestra was immediately scheduled, but it was not to be.
The stellar beginning of his career was abruptly halted by a rare and
debilitating illness that affected his connective tissues. Hospitalized
and almost immobile for a year, doctors believed his chances for
survival were slim and, should he survive, playing the piano would be
"absolutely impossible." With arduous determination and relentless
physical therapy, Mr. Liu has been restored to full health and is now
once again performing on the concert stage. Since then, he has performed
throughout the world as a soloist in recitals and with orchestras under
conductors Christoph Eschenbach, Gustavo Dudamel and Alan Gilbert. In
2002, Liu received the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Philadelphia
Musical Fund Society Career Advancement Award. A sought-after musician
and strong advocate of chamber music, Liu performs in music festivals
across the globe and has worked with international musicians Shmuel
Ashkenasi, David Soyer, Bernard Greenhouse, James Buswell, Wendy Warner
as well as the Borromeo and St. Lawrence Quartets. Liu also collaborates
with artists in varied disciplines, such as Mikhail Baryshnikov and the
White Oak Dance Project, among other dance companies. His concerts have
been heard over the airwaves around the world, and a biography on his
life was broadcast on Taiwanese National Television.
Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Meng-Chieh Liu began his piano studies early,
and at age thirteen was accepted by The Curtis Institute of Music to
study with Jorge Bolet, Claude Frank, and Eleanor Sokoloff, and received
first prizes in the Stravinsky, Asia Pacific and Mieczyslaw Munz piano
competitions. Since 1993, Liu served on the piano and chamber music
faculties at The Curtis Institute of Music where he coordinated the
piano chamber music program from 1999-2009, and in 2006, he joined the
faculty at Roosevelt University. Liu also joined Chicago Chamber
Musicians in the fall of 2009, and now serves as Artistic Director of
the ensemble, where performances have already been acclaimed for his
"faultless, discreetly balanced pianism" (Chicago Classical Review).
Starting in the fall of 2014, Mr. Liu will join the piano faculty at the
New England Conservatory of Music.
(7-2014)
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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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