Sam Ou
歐維聖,
cellist
Praised
for his "impassioned performance" (Boston Globe) and playing "with
remarkable ease and clarity, while maintaining a graceful—if
vociferous—line that fit well into the narrative" (The Boston Musical
Intelligencer), cellist Sam Ou enjoys an active musical life in the
Greater Boston area. A recipient of the Rosemary Scales Prize for best
cello concerto performance at the Kingsville International Young
Performers Competition, Mr. Ou has performed at several prestigious
summer venues including Tanglewood, Sarasota, Musicorda, Santa Fe, and
La Jolla music festivals. In 2012, he gave the world premiere
performance of Larry Bell’s Cello Concerto entitled The Triumph of
Lightness with the Boston Civic Symphony at New England Conservatory’s
Jordan Hall (NEC). An avid chamber musician, Mr. Ou has collaborated and
performed with the Borromeo String Quartet, James Buswell, Hung-Kuan
Chen, Pi-Hsien Chen, James Dunham, Thomas Hill, Patricia McCarty, Paul
Neubauer, Heiichiro Ohyama, Lois Shapiro, and Marcus Thompson. He
performed Yehudi Wyner's Tanz and Maissele with violinist Lucy Chapman,
clarinetist Bruce Creditor, and the Pulitzer prize-winning composer at
the piano at The Center for Jewish History in New York.
Mr. Ou came to the United States from Taiwan at age 4, and began his
cello studies at age 9. He has been a pupil of several renowned cello
teachers, including Gretchen Geber, Eleanore Schoenfeld, and Aldo
Parisot. After completing his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Music
degrees in New York from Columbia University and The Juilliard School in
their double degree program, Mr. Ou moved to Boston to study with
Laurence Lesser at NEC, where he graduated with a Doctorate of Musical
Arts. His dissertation was entitled "In Felix's Footsteps: An
Examination of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's Approach to Her Chamber
Music."
While a student at NEC, Mr. Ou founded the NEC String Trio, which won
the NEC Honors Ensemble Competition, was featured on Boston’s WGBH radio
station, and was the resident chamber ensemble at the Musicorda Music
Festival. As a former member of the Huntington Piano Trio, he performed
extensively throughout New England and traveled to Poland, giving
concerts in Poznan and Zakopane. He has studied with several inspiring
chamber music coaches including Toby Appel, Emanuel Ax, Neil Black,
James Buswell, Earl Carlyss, Lucy Chapman, Norman Fischer, Felix Galimir,
Christoph Henkel, Lewis Kaplan, and Emma Tahmisian.
In addition to being a prize recipient at the Kingsville International
Young Performers Competition, Mr. Ou has also been awarded the Rome
Festival Concerto Soloist Award, the Chi-Mei Music Scholarship from
Taiwan, the ARTS Level II Award from the National Foundation for the
Advancement in the Arts, and the Joseph Schuster Memorial Cello
Scholarship from the Young Musicians' Foundation.
Mr. Ou has been a visiting lecturer, performer, and cello teacher at
Fu-Jen University in Taiwan, where he conducted solo and chamber music
masterclasses and performed with Fu-Jen faculty musicians. As a
participant of Fu-Jen’s 18th Century Piano Literature Symposium and the
International Strings Literature Symposium, he presented papers on the
chamber music of Beethoven and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Mr. Ou has also
coached undergraduate chamber ensembles and orchestral cello sectionals
at Tufts University. Most recently, he was invited to México City to
conduct masterclasses and give a solo recital at the National University
of México's School of Music as part of the School's "5th National Cello
Encounter" Conference.
A faculty member and assistant string chairperson at NEC’s Preparatory
School and School of Continuing Education, Mr. Ou also teaches at Powers
Music School and maintains a private teaching studio. In the summer, he
has taught at Music on the Hill in Belmont, MA, the Vianden
International Music Festival in Luxembourg, the Walnut Hill Music
Festival in Natick, MA, and Point Counterpoint in Leicester, VT. Mr. Ou
released a CD entitled With String & Pipe, in which he collaborated with
the late organist Harry Lyn Huff. He was also featured in Larry Bell’s
CDs entitled In a Garden of Dreamers, where he collaborated with
recorder player Aldo Abreu and harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa.
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