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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
Sunday, August 6, 2017, 7:30 PM
at
Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA
Eric Lu
陸逸軒,
pianist
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~Program~
Mozart: Rondo in A Minor, K. 511
Chopin: Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60
Brahms: 6 Klavierstucke, Op. 118
No. 1. Intermezzo in A Minor
No. 2. Intermezzo in A Major
No. 3. Ballade in G Minor
No. 4. Intermezzo in F Minor
No. 5. Romanze in F Major
No. 6. Intermezzo in E flat Minor
~Intermission~
Handel: Chaconne in G Major, HWV 435
Chopin: Mazurkas Op. 33
No. 1 in G-sharp Minor
No. 2 in D Major
No. 3 in C Major
No. 4 in B Minor
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83
Allegro inquieto
Andante caloroso
Precipitato
" ... And then that powerfully insistent
Prokofiev. Lu relishes it, I’d say,
and all of it: the unquiet opening, the warm Andante, the
precipitous finale,
which he took neither too fast nor too slow but just right.
...." -David Moran, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
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Steinway piano provided by M. Steinert &
Sons
Meet The Artists |
Eric Lu 陸逸軒,
pianist
www.ericlupianist.com
19-year
old pianist Eric Lu is rapidly building an international
reputation as a young pianist with enormous promise, and a
distinctive musical voice.
A native of the Boston, Massachusetts area, Eric Lu won the 1st
prize at the 2015 US National Chopin Competition in Miami, and
recently, won the 1st prize and audience award at the 2017
International German Piano Award in Frankfurt. In October 2015,
at 17 years old, Eric won the 4th prize at the 17th
International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw, becoming
one of the youngest laureates in the history of the prestigious
competition. Following these recent successes, Eric received
invitations to perform in many important venues around the world
in just the past two years, including Carnegie Hall in New York,
Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Alte Oper Hall in Frankfurt,
Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw, Jordan Hall in Boston,
Taipei National Concert Hall, Beijing Concert Hall, Strathmore
Music Center, the International Chopin Festival in Duszniki,
Poland, NOSPR Concert Hall in Katowice, Krakow Philharmonic
Concert Hall, Nohant Chopin Festival, and a tour of Japan and
Korea following the Chopin Competition, performing in halls such
as Seoul Arts Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Hall, Osaka Symphony
Hall, Sapporo Arts Center, among others. Described by the New
York Classical Review as a musician of “exceptional musical
sensitivity”, as well as by Michael Moran from the Duszniki
Festival proclaiming, “The tone he produced was luminous, the
articulation spellbinding and exciting, the legato and bel canto
desperately moving.” Following his performance of Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3 during the final of the International Piano
Award, the Darmstadter Echo wrote, “Lu received thundering
applause after a sheer unbelievable performance of the work.
Oscillating between melancholy and turmoil, he follows the
expressive themes of the work with sensitivity, peeling out
melodies with fascinating clarity from the virtuosic,
densely-written piano part.”
Paving the way included earlier achievements of 1st prizes at
the Moscow International Chopin Competition for Young
Pianists(2014), the Minnesota International e-Piano Junior
Competition(2013), and the XII Ettlingen International
Competition in Germany(2010). Eric has collaborated with
orchestras such as the Warsaw Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra,
Staatskapelle Halle, National Philharmonic, Arthur Rubinstein
Philharmonic, Orchestra of the 18th century, Orquestra Clasica
Santa Cecilia, New Jersey Symphony, Sinfonietta Cracovia,
Rzeszow and Kielce Philharmonics, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra,
etc.
Eric Lu started piano studies at the age of 6 with Mrs. Dorothy
Shi. While at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School,
he studied with Alexander Korsantia, and Mr. A. Ramon Rivera. In
2013, Eric entered the Curtis Institute of Music in
Philadelphia, where he currently studies with Profs. Robert
McDonald and Jonathan Biss. He is also a pupil of pianist Dang
Thai Son. His debut CD was released under the Chopin Institute
in Warsaw, recorded from the Chopin Competition 2015.
*Updated as of April 2017.
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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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