Foundation for Chinese
Performing Arts
Summer FREE Concert @ NEC 2022
夏日系列音樂會
at New England
Conservatory,
Boston,Massachusetts August 11 - 27,2022
All concerts Admission Free,suggested donation $10 at door
Age 6 and under not admitted
CONCERT 5
Monday, August 15, 2022, 7:30 pm
at
NEC's Williams Hall
Kuok-Wai Lio
廖國瑋,piano
~Program~
Joseph Haydn :
Andante and Variations in F minor
Hob XVII 6 (10 min)
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Piano Sonata in D minor,Op.31,No.2
" The Tempest"
Largo - Allegro
Adagio
Allegretto (24 min)
~
intermission ~
Franz Schubert :
Sonata in A Major D. 959
Allegro
Andantino
Scherzo
Rondo (42 min)
"Last
night’s concert at NEC’s Williams Hall was one of those
rare transcendent moments in music that moves the
audience to a different reality. Kuok-Wai Lio held us
spell-bound with the overwhelming beauty of his
performances of three pieces from the classical
repertoire." -
Sibylle Barrasso, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Admission Free,suggested donation $10 at door.
Age 6 and under not admitted.
中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln,Massachusetts
Praised
by the Vancouver Sun as a "musician's musician" and for his "sensitive
playing" by the New York Times,Macau-born pianist Lio Kuok-Wai is active
as a soloist and chamber musician worldwide. He has performed at venues
such as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall,Tonhalle Zürich,and
Herkulessaal in Munich.
Kuok-Wai is a recipient of a Commendation of Merit given by the Chief
Executive of Macau,the prestigious 2013 Avery Fisher Career Grant,and
the 2016 Career Advancement Award by the Musical Fund Society of
Philadelphia.
Born in 1989,Kuok-Wai studied at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing
Arts with Gabriel Kwok,and the Curtis Institute of Music with Gary
Graffman. Kuok-Wai was invited by Sir András Schiff to take part in his
masterclasses in Europe,and by Leon Fleisher to his mentorship program
at Caramoor in upstate New York. He is currently pursuing an Artist
Diploma at the International Centre for Music at Park University with
Stanislav Ioudenitch.