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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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Max
Tan,
violin https://www.maxtanviolin.com/  Praised
as "eloquent" by The New York Times and "warmly rhapsodic" by The
Boston Globe, Taiwanese American violinist Max Tan has appeared on
stages across the United States, Europe, and Asia, forging a varied
career as performer and educator. A founding member of the
diplomacy-centered Versoi Ensemble and a tenured member of the
Sarasota Orchestra, Mr. Tan is committed to community-building
through the arts. Past projects involve connecting musicians to
isolated audiences and recovering Covid-19 patients during the
pandemic, producing a monthly livestream concert series, and
organizing chamber music residencies. Mr. Tan will also launch a new
salon concert series at the Sarasota Art Museum in the coming
months.Mr. Tan is the recipient of the Richard F. French Award, the Sylff Fellowship, the Kovner Fellowship from The Juilliard School, and the Arthur Foote Prize from the Harvard Musical Association. Radio broadcasts include WNYC/WQXR and Belgian radio Musiq3 and Canvas as a semifinalist at the 2019 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition. Past festival appearances include the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn, Four Seasons Winter Workshop, Pacific Music Festival, and the Perlman Music Program. Mr. Tan is on the roster of the Si-Yo Foundation. Recent performances include recitals and chamber music in Taipei, Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York at the Chelsea Music Festival where he gave the North American premiere of Phylogenie by Japanese composer Misato Mochizuki. Committed to the music of our time, Mr. Tan works with young composers at Juilliard and Sunset Chamberfest (Los Angeles) in performance, writing, and public speaking. He has performed works by notable composers including Sarah Gibson, Sang Tong, Virgil Thomson, Stefano Gervasoni, and Jean-Frédéric Neuberger. A Harvard graduate with a major in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology and a minor in Music, Mr. Tan is pursuing his doctorate at Juilliard, where he also received his Master's and Artist Diploma degrees. His dissertation research centers on the provenance of unpublished arrangements of Chausson’s Poème and other notable works by Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe, the first recordings of which will be released in the coming months. Mr. Tan begins an assistant faculty position at The Juilliard School Pre-College this fall. Marisa Gupta, piano https://www.marisagupta.com/  Born
in the USA of Thai and Indian parentage, pianist Marisa Gupta made
her debut performing Prokofiev’s 1st Piano Concerto with the Houston
Symphony. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including top
prizes at the Concours Maria Canals (Barcelona), the Viotti
Competition (Vercelli, Italy), Corpus Christi and Kingsville
International Music Competitions, a Solti Foundation Award, a
Fulbright scholarship for study in the UK, and many others. She was
an Edison Visiting Fellow at the British Library, and was named a
finalist by the BBC for its New Generations Thinkers initiative,
inviting leading British thinkers to broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She has appeared at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Palau de la Música (Barcelona), South Bank Centre, Kings Place (London), The Bridgewater Hall (Manchester), LSO St. Luke’s, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Bucharest’s Ateneul Român, Zipper Hall (Monday Evening Concerts - Los Angeles), LACMA (Los Angeles), Tokyo Opera City, Munetsugu Hall (Nagoya) and other venues throughout Europe, Japan, and the USA. Radio broadcasts include those on BBC Radio 3, BBC TV 4, Radio 4 (Netherlands), Radio Catalunya, KUSC (LA) and KUHF (Houston). She has appeared at numerous festivals including Rockport, Ravinia, Three Choirs Festival, Prussia Cove, Yellow Barn, and many others. Marisa has worked closely with a number of composers, notably Jörg Widmann, Brett Dean, Philippe Hersant, and David Matthews, and has given the US and UK premieres of works by Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, European premieres of major works by Aaron Jay Kernis and Ned Rorem at the Wigmore Hall, and the world premiere of Rhapsodie by Philippe Hersant. Chamber music collaborations include those with Anthony Marwood, Philippe Graffin, Stephen Kovacevich, Nicolas Dautricourt, Lynne Dawson, Tom Meglioranza, members of the Berlin Philharmonic, COE, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the RPO, LPO, Hallé, the Verona, Calder, Rolston, and Doric Quartets, Nash Ensemble and many others. Marisa received the Diplôme de Soliste from the HEM Genève in Switzerland, where she studied with Pascal Devoyon. She received her Doctorate at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, focused on the performance of approximately 50 recently discovered solo piano works by the Catalan composer Frederic Mompou. Other important mentors include Richard Goode, Horacio Gutierrez, and John and Nancy Weems. She will be visiting faculty at the Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin this autumn. |
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