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 8, 2014, 7:30 PM
at Keiter Center
Mr. George Li,
piano
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~Program~
Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky
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Méditation, op.
72 no. 5
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Ludwig
van Beethoven
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Piano
Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed
appassionato
Arietta: Adagio molto, semplice et cantabile
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~Intermission~
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Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Variations on a
Theme of Corelli, op. 42
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Maurice Ravel |
La
Valse
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Steinway piano provided
by M. Steinert & Sons
Meet The Artists |
George Li,
pianist
 Praised
by the Washington Post for combining “staggering
technical prowess, a sense of command and depth of expression,”
18-year-old pianist George Li possesses brilliant virtuosity and
effortless grace far beyond his years. In 2012 alone, Mr. Li won
the Gilmore Young Artist Award and received the Tabor Foundation
Piano Award at the Verbier Academy.
First Prize Winner in the 2010 Young Concert Artists
International Auditions, Mr. Li’s highly acclaimed New York
debut at 16 opened the 51st Young Concert Artists Series at
Merkin Concert Hall. YCA also presented his debut in Washington
DC at the Kennedy Center, both to rave reviews. Mr. Li has
appeared in recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in
Boston, the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival,
and the Gilmore Rising Star Series, the Vancouver Recital
Society, Music Toronto, at Shriver Hall and the Festspiele
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, among others.
As First Prize winner of the inaugural Cooper International
Piano Competition, Mr. Li appeared as soloist with the Cleveland
Orchestra. He has also performed as soloist with orchestras
worldwide, including the Spartanburg Philharmonic, the Akron
Symphony, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony
Orchestra, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Venezuela
(Gustavo Dudamel being its former conductor), Hilton Head
Symphony Orchestra, the Nordic Chamber Orchestra in Sweden. Mr.
Li also performed as the soloist with the Boston Philharmonic
Youth Orchestra at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
In 2011, Mr. Li performed for President Obama at the White House
in an evening honoring Chancellor Angela Merkel. He has
performed for members of US Congress at the Senate Office
Building in Washington, DC. Mr. Li also performed as guest
artist at the famous TV shows, such as the Martha Stewart, and
Liz Walker Show and performed at “Drive Time Live with Cathy
Fuller” on Classical New England 99.5 FM in Boston.
In May of 2015, Mr. Li will play the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto
No.1 with Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the YCA Gala concert at
Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center.
In July of 2014, Mr. Li won second prize from the 2014 Vendome
Prize at the Verbier Festival.
Mr. Li started piano lesson at age four with Mrs. Dorothy Shi.
He studied piano with Ms. Wha Kyung Byun since he was twelve.
Currently, Mr. Li is a student at the dual degree program of
Harvard/NEC and continues his study in piano with Ms.Wha Kyung
Byun.
(August 2014)
Masterful Playing at Young Age
Pianist George Li, 16, makes a powerful debut at the Kennedy Center
“Li’s performance left no doubt that he combines staggering technical
prowess, a sense of command and depth of expression.”
- The Washington Post
“Perched on the edge of the piano stool to allow him to reach the
pedals, Li ripped off technical passages with a quicksilver ease, arched
the melodies with the expressivity and soul of a romantic poet and
knocked off one masterpiece after another like an artist decades older.”
- Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)
“Mr. Li seized your attention from the beginning. His first chords were
unforgettable, even I would say, astonishing. He took command of our
ears in a moment and he kept that command throughout. Mr. Li knew how to
play Chopin’s wonderful heroics, but he also knew how to whisper.”
- Clevelandclassical.com
“His dreamy lyricism – notes like pebbles dropping into a pond –
alternated with a Romantic turbulence that gave meaning and soul to
Chopin’s signature musical swirls of notes.”
- Clevelandclassical.com
“There was mind-boggling fluency in Li’s fingerings, an effortlessness
to his playing, a beguiling fluidity to his phrasing, a precision to his
crisp attacks. It seemed the audience experienced the incredible impact
the young Mozart must have had on audiences in France and Italy when he
toured at the same age as Li.”
- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester,
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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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