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The 26th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill
胡桃山音樂營
July 20 to August 13, 2017 |
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Concerts
and Master Classes
Admission free.
Suggested Donation $5 at door
Monday, July 31, 2017, 7:30 PM
at
Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA
Han Chen
陳涵,
pianist
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~Program~
Liszt:
Ballade No. 2, S171
Bellini/Liszt:
I Puritani, introduction et polonaise, S391
Bellini/Liszt:
Sonnambula – Große Konzert-Fantasie, S393iii
~intermission~
Liszt:
Rondeau fantastique sur un thème espagnol – El
contrabandista, S252
Liszt:
Sonata in B Minor, S178
“ … Chen’s playing, close to
superhuman, astonishes, again and again.
There seems nothing he cannot do, and with grace, musicality,
even bounce. … “
-David Moran, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
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Steinway piano provided by M. Steinert &
Sons
Meet The Artists |
Han Chen
陳涵, pianist
www.anchenpiano.com
Hailed
by the New York Times as a pianist with "a graceful touch...
rhythmic precision... hypnotic charm” (2012) and "sure, subtle
touch," (2014) Han Chen is a distinctive artist whose
credentials at a young age already include important prizes in
competitions of traditional music as well as increasing respect
in the avant-garde.
Mr. Chen’s debut CD with Naxos Records, which consists of
all-Liszt operatic transcriptions, was released in January 2016
as the first prize winner of the 6th China International Piano
Competition. Gramophone complimented Mr. Chen’s “brilliant
performance” in the CD as “impressively commanding and
authoritative.” The website Classics Today also praised for his
“assured, elegant and totally effortless technique” by scoring
10 out of 10 in both artistic quality and sound quality.
International Piano magazine (UK) described Mr. Chen’s
performance in the competition as “[Chen] displayed
extraordinary strength, talent and flair.” In addition to the
recent champion, he was the winner of the International Russian
Music Piano Competition, the Hong Kong International Piano
Competition, the Jinqiao National Piano competition in China,
among others. Mr. Chen was also awarded the Mieczyslaw Munz
Piano Scholarship and 26th Chimei Art Prize Piano Category.
As a soloist, Mr. Chen has appeared with many orchestras,
including Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (under Maestro
Vladimir Ashkenazy), the Aspen Music Festival Brass Ensemble,
the China Symphony Orchestra, Macao Orchestra, Juilliard
Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic
Orchestra, Shanghai Conservatory Middle School Orchestra,
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, and Xiamen National
Orchestra.
Being an enthusiastic advocate for modern music, Mr. Chen
actively performs both 20th-century classics and works by
emerging composers. His close collaboration with the Juilliard
modern music ensemble AXIOM led him to the performance of music
by composers such as Pierre Boulez, Toshio Hosokawa, Gyorgy
Kurtag, Magnus Lindberg, Steve Reich, Charles Wuorinen. He was
appointed as one of the soloists in John Adam’s Pianola Music in
the 2012-2013 season, the soloist in the John Cage’s Concerto
for Prepared Piano in the 2014-2015 season, and now on the
roster of the New York-based contemporary music group Ensemble
Échappé.
As a recitalist, Mr. Chen programs music with highly creative
themes and strong belief in promoting living composers. In the
summer of 2016, he created an all-transcription program to honor
the great technical aspect of the piano as a musical instrument.
He celebrated John Cage’s centennial birthday in 2012 by
performing his complete Sonatas and Interludes. His
all-New-York-based composer program in the new music performance
venue, Spectrum, was on the critic’s pick of Time Out New York
magazine and the website I Care If You Listen. In the summer of
2014, he attended the Lucern Festival Academy founded by Pierre
Boulez, and worked with conductors such as Simon Rattle,
Matthias Pintscher and Heinz Holliger. At the same time, he
himself is also an avid composer, studying with professor Philip
Lasser. His works have been performed in National Taiwan
Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, Taiwan Classical Music Society,
Paul Hall in Juilliard, Klaiverhaus / Unity Church, Greenwich
House Music School, Aspen Chapel, Altered Stages 2, The Dolphin
Cafe, to name a few.
Native of Taichung, Taiwan, Mr. Chen attended the Taichung
Municipal Guang Fu Elementary School and later on the Shanghai
Conservatory Elementary & Middle School. His teachers included
Meng-hua Wu, Tsuifong Hung, Siyi Wu, Christopher Zhong and
Kuan-wen Wang. After his study in Shanghai, he moved to New York
and received his accelerated Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree of
Music at The Juilliard School with professor Yoheved Kaplinsky
under the C/Kaplan Piano Scholarship, Susan W. Rose Piano
Fellowship and Van Cliburn Alumni Scholarship. He has also
worked with Thomas Ades, Jonathan Biss, Misha Dichter, Leon
Fleisher, Richard Goode, Gilbert Kalish, Robert Levin, Jerome
Lowenthal, Robert McDonald, Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Peter
Oundjian and Arie Vardi in masterclasses. He is now studying
with Ms. Wha Kyung Byun in the New England Conservatory.
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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 2017 |
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