Concert 1
Burnes Hall
7:30 pm
Hsiang John Tu 涂祥,
piano
Animal Style—Piano Music Inspired by the Animal
Kingdom
~Program~
Le Cygne (The Swan)
from Le
carnaval des animaux
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Camille
Saint-Saëns
(1835-1921)
Transcribed by Leopold Godowsky
(1870-1938) |
Poissons d’or (Goldfish),
from Images II
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Claude
Debussy
(1862-1918) |
Oiseaux tristes (Sad Birds),
from Miroirs
La Colombe (The Dove),
from Préludes pour piano
Le Loriot (The Golden Oriole),
from Catologue d’oiseaux
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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Olivier Messiaen
(1908-92) |
Noctuelles (Night Moths),
from Miroirs
Butterflies, hummingbirds, from 12 New Etudes for Piano
From the Diary of a Fly,
from Mikrokosmos #142/Vol. 6
The Night’s Music & The Chase,
from Out of Doors |
Maurice
Ravel
(1875-1937)
William Bolcom
(b. 1938)
Béla Bartók
(1881-1945)
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~Intermission~
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Vogel als Prophet (Bird as
Prophet), from Waldszenen
Quejas ó la Maja y el Ruiseñor
(Laments, or The Maiden and the Nightingale),
from Goyescas
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Robert Schumann
(1810-56)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
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St. François d’Assise. La
prédication aux oiseaux
(St. Francis of Assisi. The Sermon to the Birds),
from Légendes
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Franz Liszt (1811-1886) |
O Boizinho de chumbo…(The
Little Lead Bull)
From A Prole do bebê, II (Baby’s Family, II)
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
(1887-1959) |
Tiger
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Henry Cowell (1897-1965) |
Tabby Cat Walk
The Serpent’s Kiss – Rag Fantasy,
from The Garden of Eden |
William Bolcom
(b. 1938) |
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Hsiang John Tu 涂祥, pianist
https://hsiangjohntu.com
The
New York Times
has praised the
“eloquent sensitivity” in pianist Hsiang John Tu’s performance.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Mr. Tu debuted in New York at Alice
Tully Hall in Lincoln Center as the winner of the Juilliard
School Concerto Competition, and he returned to the same
venue in 2013 as a soloist with the World Civic Orchestra. A
recipient of the Doctoral of Musical Arts degree in Piano
Performance from Juilliard, Hsiang will begin his new
appointment as an Assistant Professor in Piano at Virginia Tech
in the fall of 2019.
Since 2018, Mr. Tu has embarked upon a four-recital series
comprising the complete piano-solo works by Debussy. The fourth
and final recital will take place in 2020. Hsiang’s love of
thematic programming has resulted in recitals featuring all
animal-themed music and all Opus-1
compositions. As an active chamber musician, Hsiang has
premiered new chamber works at the Museum of Modern Art in New
York and collaborated in sold-out performances at the Joyce
Theater in NYC with the renowned modern dance company Rioult.
His other collaboration partners have included members from top
orchestras in New York, New England, and Utah.
Mr. Tu was prize winners at the New Orleans International Piano
Competition, the Iowa International Piano Competition, the Texas
Kingsville International Piano Concerto Competition, and the
American Paderewski Piano Competition. Hsiang has appeared as a
soloist with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Lake
George Chamber Orchestra, Snow College Orchestra, Boston
University Symphonic Orchestra, the New England Conservatory
Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, and the University of New
Hampshire Wind Symphony and Symphony Orchestra. He has been
presented in recitals by the Foundation for Chinese Performing
Arts in Boston, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in
New York, the Banff Centre in Canada, and the Park City Music
Festival.
Mr. Tu has given master classes at Cardiff University in Wales,
University of Southern California, Penn State University, Loyola
University New Orleans, Utah Valley University, and Colorado
Mesa University, and he has adjudicated in the NHMTA Fall
Competition, US International Music Competition of the Chinese
Music Teachers' Associations of Northern California, US New Star
Piano Competition, and SummerArts Competition at University of
Utah. Hsiang was a Lecturer in Music at the University of New
Hampshire from 2016-2019 and held adjunct positions at Utah
Valley University and Snow College.
After winning Taiwan’s National Youth Piano Competition as a
teenager, Mr. Tu moved to the U.S. and studied with HaeSun Paik
and Hung-Kuan Chen at the Walnut Hill School in Natick, MA.
Hsiang then continued with Mr. Chen at Boston University and the
University of Calgary, earning a Bachelor’s degree in piano
performance and winning the Canadian Music Festival Competition.
Thereafter, he studied at the Juilliard School with Jerome
Lowenthal, earning a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance
in addition to the DMA.
An avid baseball fan and foodie, Mr. Tu enjoys fantasy baseball,
cooking, and visiting breweries.
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