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
 


Tuesday, August 12, 2014,  7:30 PM
at Keiter Center
Ms. Pi-Hsien Chen 陳必先, pianist
 
 
   
~Program~
 
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)
 		 Six Bagatellen, op.126
Andante con moto, cantabile e con piacevole
Allegro
Andante, cantabile ed expressive
Presto
Quasi allegretto
Presto, andante amabile e con moto
Franz Schubert 
(1797-1828)		 Sonata in D major, D.850
Allegro vivace
Con moto
Scherzo: Allegro vivace – Trio
Rondo: Allegro moderato

~Intermission~
 
Domenico Scarlatti
(1685-1757)		 Three Sonatas
Sonata in C major, K.132
Sonata in E major, K.162
Sonata in G major, K.427
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)		 Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appassionato
Arietta: Adagio molto, semplice et cantabile
 
Steinway piano provided by M. Steinert & Sons

 Meet The Artists
Pi-hsien Chen,  陳必先 pianist
Ms. Pi-Hsien Chen was born in Taiwan and came to Cologne when she was nine years old. One year later, she was admitted in the class of Hans-Otto Schmidt-Neuhaus. At the age of 21, she won the first prize at the ARD-International-Piano-Competition in Munich, later on the first prizes at the A.Schönberg-Competition in Rotterdam and at the J.S.Bach-Competition in Washington D.C.

She performed with important orchestras, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC-Symphony-Orchestra, the Concertgebouw-Orchestra, the Zurich-Tonhalle-Orchestra and all German Radio-Symphony- Orchestras. Conductors, with whom she has worked, were Bernhard Haitink, Paul Sacher, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowsky, Hans Zender and Peter Eötvös. She was partner of Hermann Baumann, Pierre-Laurant Aimard, Wolfgang Meyer and Augustin Dumay a.o.

Ms. Pi-hsien Chen took part in numerous music-festivals: she gave performances in the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the London Prom's, Huddersfield Festival, the Osaka Festival, the Hong-Kong-Arts-Festival, the Festival d'Automne Paris, Musica Strasbourg, the Festival Wien Modern, the Triennale Cologne, in the German Pavillon of the EXPO 2000 in Hannover, the L'Antheron Piano Festival in France and at the Sao Raimundo Nonato in Piavi, Brasil.

Her increasing interest and engagement for contemporary music grew in the co-operation with composers as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Kurtág, John Cage and Elliott Carter. Since 1983, Pi-hsien Chen was a professor for the piano at the Musikhochschule, Köln and continues teaching at the Musikhochschule Freiburg since 2004. Regularly she is giving international master classes like in Boston, US (Walnut Hill Festival) or Helsinki, Finland (Sibelius Academy).

In 2012, she performed Music of Changes by John Cage and Second Sonata by Pierre Boulez to celebrate Cage’s 100 year anniversary in Berlin. In 2013, she performed the all Schoenberg piano works and works by Lei Liang in Ultraschall Festival in Berlin. She was artist in residence in the 2nd Contemporary Music Festival in Taipei, where she premiered four programs of contemporary music. She appeared in Lucerne Festival with George F. Haas.

Published on CD are:
- J.S.Bach, "Goldberg Variations" (Naxos)
- P.Boulez, "Notations" and "Structures II", with B.Wambach (Sony)
- O.Messiaen, "Harawi", with S.v Osten (ITM)
- Jean Barraqué and Pierre Boulez; Sonatas (Telos)
- Arnold Schönberg; Complete Piano Music for Two Hands (hat now art)
- Xiaoyong Chen, “Invisible Landscapes” (Radio Bremen)
- York Höller, Piano Works (CPO)
- J.S.Bachs Art of Fugue (CFM Berlin )
- P.Boulez release "Three Sonatas" (hat now art)
- P.Boulez, "Structures I & II", John Cage “Music for Piano” (hat now art)
- W.A. Moart “All Sonatas, Several Variaions and Piano Pieces” (Sunsrise Records)
- J.S.Bach “Six Partitas” (Phil. Harmonic Berlin)
   - D.Scarlatti/John Cage “Sonatas and Music of Changes” (hat now art)
   - Stockhausen Klavierstucke I-VI and Beethoven Sonata Op. 101, Op. 111 (hat now art)

(8-2014)



Thank you for your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
 
中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts
updated 2014