Larry Weng,
Pianist
Winner
of the 2019 NYCA Worldwide Debut Audition and a laureate of the 2016
Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition, Larry Weng has been
described in The New York Times as playing with “steely power and
incisive rhythm.” Of his 2014 New York debut at Weill Hall, the New York
Concert Review described him as “an extremely sensitive musician and
mature interpreter,” and “mature beyond his years.” Of his Alborado del
Gracioso, Harry Rolnick of ConcertoNet exclaimed, “Radiant and
transparent, picturesque and picaresque, wild but with the artistic
perfection of wildness.” Mr. Weng is also a laureate of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition, the Tchaikovsky International
Piano Competition for Young Musicians, The New York International Piano
Competition, the Kosciuzsko Foundation Chopin Competition, and the
Wideman International Piano Competition.
Mr. Weng has been featured in concert in France, Switzerland, Belgium,
the Netherlands, China, Japan, Brazil, and Venezuela, and has performed
in many of the world’s renowned concert halls, including Boston’s
Symphony Hall, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Weill Recital
Hall, Merkin Hall, SubCulture, the Salle Cortot, and the Sala Sao Paolo.
An avid chamber musician and collaborator, Mr. Weng has participated in
the Ravinia Steans Institute and the Verbier Academy, and has worked
with renowned musicians such as Claude and Pamela Frank, Gabor Takacs,
David Shifrin, David Soyer, amongst others. He is a frequent
collaborator at the Lisker Music Foundation concert series in Chicago,
as well as the Downtown Music at Grace in White Plains. Recent
highlights include an extensive Midwest tour with violinist Kerson Leong
and Mr. Weng’s Berlin debut at the Berliner Philharmonie. Mr. Weng is a
full-time of the award winning two piano, two percussion ensemble,
Icarus Quartet.
In 2009, Mr. Weng graduated from the highly selective joint degree
program between Columbia University and The Juilliard School with a BA
in Economics and an MM in Piano Performance under the tutelage of
Professors Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio. He continued his
studies with Professor Boris Berman at the Yale School of Music, and in
2019, received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree.
During his time at Yale, Mr. Weng served as an instructor in
undergraduate piano and secondary piano. As of the 2021-2022 academic
year, Mr. Weng will serve on the faculty of the Wake Forest University
Department of Music.
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