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 10
Monday, August 22, 2022,
7:30 pm
at
NEC's Williams Hall
Qianqian Li
李倩茜,
violin
Hsin-Yun Huang
黃心芸,
viola
Nathan Vickery, cello
Yinfei Wang
王寅飛,
piano
~Program~
Franz Schubert:
String Trio D471
(12 min)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478
(26 min)
Allegro
Andante
Rondo (Allegro)
~
intermission ~
Robert Schumann:
Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47 (30 min)
Sostenuto assai – Allegro ma non troppo
Scherzo: Molto vivace – Trio I – Trio II
Andante cantabile
Finale: Vivace
“Monday at
NEC’s Williams Hall with radiant violinist Qianqian Li, Principal of the NY Phil
Second Violin Group; the inspiring cellist Nathan Vickery, who joined the NY
Phil as its youngest member back in 2013; plus, the celebrated violist Hsin-Yun
Huang, noted soloist and teacher. Well-known pianist Yinfei Wang joined them for
quartets. These are intelligently collaborative musicians came together just for
this performance, yet their playing belied that fact. Another gemütlich evening
from the Foundation.” -Julie
Ingelfinger, 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
event photos: Chung Cheng event photos: Xiaopei Xu and Chi Wei Lo
Qianqian Li
李倩茜,
violin
https://nyphil.org/about-us/artists/qianqian-li
Violinist Qianqian Li joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal,
Second Violin Group, in December 2017. An avid chamber musician, she
has performed with Donald Weilerstein, Roger Tapping, Natasha
Brofsky, Brett Dean, Gilbert Kalish, Curtis Macomber, and Anthony
Marwood. Her honors include First Prize at Kazakhstan’s inaugural
International Violin Competition, the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize
at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Ishikawa Music Academy Award,
and prizes won with the Clara Piano Trio, of which she was a member
for one year.
Ms. Li has performed at major music festivals including Aspen,
Tanglewood, Yellow Barn, and Sarasota. As a soloist, she has
performed with orchestras in major concert halls in Asia, the United
States, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. Her performances have
been broadcast live on the radio, including by WGBH Boston. Before
joining the New York Philharmonic, she served as a member of the
first violin section of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for three
years, after winning positions with the orchestras of Seattle,
Atlanta, and St. Paul in the same period. She has also performed in
the Boston, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta symphony orchestras and The
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Born in Nanjing, China, Qianqian Li received both her bachelor and
master of music degrees from the New England Conservatory, where she
studied with Donald Weilerstein and served as his teaching
assistant, and was granted the Laurence Lesser Presidential
Scholarship. Her other mentors include Malcolm Lowe and Lina Yu. Hsin-Yun Huang
黃心芸,
viola
“Superb artistry…[Hsin-Yun Huang] negotiated each phrase with
remarkable agility and expressive acumen.” – Chicago Tribune
Hsin-Yun Huang has forged a career as one of the leading violists of
her generation, performing on international concert stages,
commissioning and recording new works, and nurturing young
musicians. Ms. Huang has been soloist with the Berlin Radio
Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Bogotá Philharmonic, the NCPA
Orchestra in Beijing, Zagreb Soloists, International Contemporary
Ensemble, the London Sinfonia, and the Brazil Youth Orchestra, and
has performed the complete Hindemith viola concertos with the Taipei
City Symphony. She is a regular presence at festivals including
Marlboro, Santa Fe, Rome, Spoleto USA, Moritzburg, Music@Menlo, and
the Seoul Spring Festival, among many others. She tours extensively
with the Brentano String Quartet, most notably including
performances of the complete Mozart string quintets at Carnegie
Hall.
Recent highlights include concerto performances under the batons of
David Robertson, Osmo Vänskä, Xian Zhang, and Max Valdés in Beijing,
Taipei, and Bogota, and appearances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln
Center. She is also the first solo violist to be presented in the
National Performance Center of the Arts in Beijing. She is a regular
guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the 92nd Street Y and the Seoul
Spring Festival. The 2014-2015 season featured a series of three
chamber concerts curated by Ms. Huang and presented by the 92nd
Street Y.
Ms. Huang has in recent years embarked on a series of major
commissioning projects for solo viola and chamber ensemble. To date,
these works include compositions from Shih-Hui Chen (Shu Shon Key,
which Ms. Chen also arranged for orchestra) and Steven Mackey
(Groundswell), which premiered at the Aspen Festival. Ms. Huang’s
2012 recording, titled “Viola Viola,” for Bridge Records, included
those works along with compositions by Elliott Carter, Poul Ruders,
and George Benjamin; the CD has won accolades from Gramophone and
BBC Music Magazine. Her most recent release is the complete
Unaccompanied Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach, in partnership with
violist Misha Amory.
A native of Taiwan and an alumna of Young Concert Artists, Ms. Huang
received degrees from The Juilliard School and The Curtis Institute
of Music. She has given master classes at the Guildhall School in
London, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, the San
Francisco Conservatory, Yong Sie Tow Conservatory in Singapore, and
the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University. She served on
the jury of the 2011 Banff International String Quartet Competition.
Ms. Huang first came to international attention as the gold medalist
and the youngest competitor in the 1988 Lionel Tertis International
Viola Competition. In 1993 she was the top prize winner in the ARD
International Competition in Munich, and was awarded the highly
prestigious Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. Ms. Huang was a member of
the Borromeo String Quartet from 1994 to 2000.
She is currently on the Viola Faculty at the Juilliard School and
the Curtis Institute of Music and most grateful for her teachers
David Takeno, Peter Norris, Michael Tree and Samuel Rhodes. She is
married to Misha Amory, violist of the Brentano String Quartet. They
live in New York City and have two children Lucas and Leah. She
plays on a 1735 Testore Viola.
Lauded as a “formidable cello soloist” (The New York Times), cellist
Nathan Vickery appears regularly in solo and chamber music recitals
and at music festivals around the country. In a 2016 performance of
Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, he was celebrated for his “talent and
artistry” and his “fresh and appealing account” of the work (The New
York Times).
Vickery joined the New York Philharmonic in September 2013 as its
youngest member, and has since performed and toured with the
Orchestra at home in New York and throughout the world. He also
appears frequently in the New York Philharmonic Ensembles chamber
music series at Merkin Hall, and in the NY Phil’s new-music series.
Nathan Vickery is a member of the Rosamunde String Quartet, in which
he joins with violinists Noah Bendix-Balgley and Shanshan Yao and
violist Teng Li. He has appeared as a soloist with the Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra and as a recitalist and chamber musician at
festivals including the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival, Summer
Music at Indiana University, and the Steans Music Institute at
Ravinia. He has served on the faculty of the Indiana University
Summer String Academy, teaches privately in New York City and with
the Shanghai Orchestra Academy, the New York Philharmonic’s
professional training partnership with the Shanghai Symphony
Orchestra and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and enjoys presenting
masterclasses.
Yinfei Wang
王寅飛,
piano
https://www.nymusicschool.org/yinfei-wang
Pianist
Yinfei Wang made his first public appearance at the age of seven in
the Shanghai Concert Hall. Since then, he has performed throughout
China, Singapore, Spain, Australia and the United States. He has
been a prizewinner of many national and international piano
competitions, including Washington International Piano Competition,
Gershwin International Piano Competition, Five Towns Piano
Comeptition in New York, Jacob Flier Piano Competition, Shande Ding
Piano Competition in Shanghai, Chopin Piano Competition in
Connecticut and many others. As a soloist, Mr. Wang has performed
with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, the MSM Symphony
Orchestra, with conductors Vladimir Feltsman, Phillipe Entremont,
among others.
An
avid chamber musician, Mr. Wang has performed in many music
festivals and concert series, including The Perlman Music Program,
PianoSummer at New Paltz, Summer Concerts at NEC in Boston, Walnut
Hill Music Festival, the Concerts on the Slope series in New York,
and many others. He has collaborated with musicians such as Thomas
Hill, Nai-Yuan Hu, Nicholas Kitchen, Kenneth Radnofsky and Cong Wu.
His recordings could be found in the Shanghai Conservatory of
Music: Seventieth Anniversary Gala Album.
Mr.
Wang received his Bachelor’s degree from the Shanghai Conservatory
of Music, his Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the
Manhattan School of Music. His Principle teachers include Phillip
Kawin, Yanxin Chen, Christopher Zhong and Chongfang Zhang.
Thank you for your
generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts