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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 |
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 event photos: Xiaopei Xu and Chi Wei Lo |
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Evren
Ozel,
piano https://www.evrenozel.com/  American
pianist Evren Ozel began his musical studies at age 3 in his
hometown of Minneapolis, MN. He has won numerous honors and awards
including scholarships from the U.S Chopin Foundation and Young Arts
Foundation, first prize at the 2016 Boston Symphony Concerto
Competition, second prize at the 2016 Thomas and Evon Cooper
International Competition, and second prize as well as Mozart and
Chopin special prizes at the 2018 Dublin International Piano
Competition. Most recently, he received second prize and special
prizes for Best Mazurka and Best Polonaise at the 2020 U.S. National
Chopin Competition securing the honor of representing the U.S.A in
the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland in October
2021, where he was a quarter-finalist. Ozel has performed with orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, RTE National Symphony and Boston Pops among others. In 2018, as a freshman at New England Conservatory, Evren won both the Honors Piano Competition and the NEC Chamber Concerto Competition which garnered him an opportunity to play on the Jordan Hall stage with the school’s conductor-less orchestra. An avid chamber musician, Ozel was selected by Mitsuko Uchida to participate in the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival. There he performed with Jonathan Biss, Alice Neary, Marcy Rosen and Joseph Lin, among others. Three of his performances at the festival have already been featured in the archived Historic Recordings from Marlboro. In 2019, he participated in Chamber Fest Cleveland, featured in their Rising Star program, performing along side artists such as Franklin Cohen, Peter Wiley and Hsin-Yun Huang. Of his performance of Franck Sonata with Nathan Meltzer, Cleveland Classical wrote “Meltzer and Ozel attended to every contour of the music with care, crafting a longform melodic idea that flowed effortlessly from phrase to phrase and movement to movement. It was a privilege to witness.” Other chamber experiences include invitations to play with Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and Chamber Music Live! at Queen’s College. He was also a member of Gruppetto Trio which was selected as a New England Conservatory Honors Ensemble in the 2018/2019 school year. Other summer festival experiences include the International Mendelssohn Akademie Leipzig in 2018 as a Mendelssohn Fellow, taking masterclasses with Pavel Gililov and Matti Raekallio, and the Oxford Philomusica Piano Festival in 2015, where he had masterclasses with Ferenc Rados, Menahem Pressler, and Andras Schiff. He has also been selected to perform in masterclasses for Richard Goode, Paul Lewis, Mitsuko Uchida, Garrick Ohlssohn, Robert Levin, Hugh Wolff, Lang Lang and others. His 2022/2023 Season includes solo recitals for Chamber Music Detroit and the Asheville Symphony Recital Series, as well as Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Midland Symphony Orchestra, and duo recitals for Washington Performing Arts and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society with violinist Geneva Lewis. Ozel is currently in the Master of Music program at New England Conservatory in Boston, MA where he has been studying with Wha Kyung Byun since 2014. He is represented by Concert Artists Guild, as one of the Ambassador Prize winners of their 2021 Victor Elmaleh Virtual Competition.  |
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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  |