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Foundation for Chinese
Performing Arts Summer FREE Concert @ NEC 2024 夏日系列音樂會 at New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts Aug 8 to 24, 2024 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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Yao, Jialin 要佳林, China FIRST PRIZE WINNER  Pianist Jialin Yao has been hailed for his “mature, sensitive and polished
playing with serious attitude towards music making and a strong mindset for
interpretive details” (Dmitri Alexeev). His love of bringing warmth, passion,
and magic to audiences has led to performances throughout North America, Asia,
and Europe. Being a multi-dimensional musician, Jialin Yao not only appears on
the stage as a chamber musician and collaborator, but is also committed to piano
teaching. He served as a secondary piano course teacher and college staff
pianist at the Juilliard School. He is a firm believer that the most moving
music can only come from the most open-hearted and truthful human beings.Jialin Yao has been a Prize-winner in numerous competitions such as Málaga City International Piano Competition, Friuli Venezia Giulia International Piano Competition, Teresa Carreño Master Piano Competition, IKOF International Piano Competition, Singapore International Piano Competition, Steinway Piano Competition, Shigeru Kawai International Piano Competition, Santa Cecilia International Piano Competition, and many others. Jialin Yao has been invited to perform at today’s most important music festivals such as PianoFest in New York, Gilmore Festival in Kalamazoo, Ravinia Festival in Chicago, and Verbier Festival in Switzerland. Jialin Yao was born in China in 1999. He began to play piano at the age of 4. In 2011 Jialin Yao entered the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing where he studied with Hong Fu. Since 2020, he received guidance from pianist Ruoyu Huang. After finishing his bachelor’s degree in China, Jialin Yao moved to the United States to earn his Master’s degree at the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied with Maestro Sergei Babayan. Now he is continuing his studies with Maestro Babayan at SMU Meadows School of the Arts pursuing an Artist Diploma. |
Zhang, Sunny Lin Kai 張霖鍇, Canada SECOND PRIZE WINNER  19-year-old pianist Sunny Lin Kai Zhang has performed in some of the foremost
venues in the
world, including New York Carnegie Hall Weill and Stern auditoriums, Steinway
Hall, Benaroya
Hall in Seattle, Beijing Concert Hall, Van Cliburn Concert Hall, Vancouver Queen
Elizabeth
Theatre, Chan Centre, and Orpheum Theatre. He has performed numerous concertos
with the
Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet in Canada, and the Grosseto Symphony Orchestra in
Italy. He
has performed with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and Brahms’ First Piano
Concerto with the
Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra. In February 2024, he performed Rachmaninoff’s
Third Piano
Concerto in Vancouver Metropolitan Opera’s concert season, to a sold-out
2800-seat Vancouver
Orpheum Theatre.Sunny has participated in many competitions: He won First Prizes at the Seattle International Piano Competition, the Carmel Clavier International Piano Competition in solo and concerto categories, the Orbetello International Piano Competition for Young Artists, and the Pacific International Piano Competition. He won top prizes at Steinway, San Jose, Sviatoslav Richter, Lancaster, and Enkor International Piano Competition, among many others. In Canada, he won second prize in the Canadian Music Competition, First prize at Provincial Arts BC, received RCM’s Gold Medal for the highest grade in the LRCM certificate and became a Steinway Young Artist at the age of 16. Frequently participating in International Masterclasses around the world, Sunny has worked with renowned professors such as Gary Graffman, Dang Thai Song, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Lydia Artymiw, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Robert Levin, Rena Shereshevskaya, Vadym Kholodenko, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Jon Nakamatsu, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Susan Starr, Eleanor Sokoloff, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, and Alexander Braginsky. Sunny’s main teachers have included long-time mentor Eugene Skovorodnikov and renowned professor Matti Raekallio. He is currently a sophomore at the Juilliard School of Music, studying with Hung-Kuan Chen. |
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中華表演藝術基金會 Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Lincoln, Massachusetts |