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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: Calvin Hsieh 
The team that made the 2024 summer series run as smoothly as it did! It was a great season, and we loved meeting new friends and audiences.
Til next time!! |
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Yao, Jialin 要佳林, China 傅聰國際協奏曲比賽 2024 concerto competition 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. Mercury Orchestra MERCURY ORCHESTRA WINS 2010 AMERICAN PRIZE COMPETITION www.mercuryorchestra.org  (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—June 18, 2010) The Mercury Orchestra has been selected
as the national winner of the 2010 American Prize in Orchestral
Performance, community orchestra division, in a competition including
orchestras from 26 states and the District of Columbia.The American Prize is a series of new non-profit national competitions designed to recognize and reward the very best in the performing arts in the United States. Founded in 2009, the American Prize rewards the best recorded performances of music by individuals and ensembles in the United States at the professional, community/amateur, college/university, church and school levels. The 97-member Mercury Orchestra, directed by the young American conductor Channing Yu, brings together some of the most talented amateur musicians in the Cambridge/Boston area to perform some of the most challenging works in the symphonic repertoire. Now in its third season, the orchestra will perform two highly colorful and evocative works—Stravinsky’s Petrushka (1911) and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique—on July 17 in Sanders Theatre at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In their evaluations, the competition judges praised the orchestra’s "excellent interpretations" and made special mention of the orchestra’s "thrilling rendition of the Rondo-Finale from the Mahler Symphony No. 5," taken from a live recording of the orchestra’s performance in July 2009. "What an incredible honor for the Mercury Orchestra," says Maestro Yu, who is also a finalist in the 2010 American Prize for Conducting competition. "The musicians in our orchestra are some of the most dedicated, serious, and expressive artists I have ever worked with, and it is a thrill to make music together." The Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra of West Windsor, N.J., took second prize, and the Auburn University/Community Orchestra of Auburn, Ala., won third prize. The judges’ decision was announced on June 18, 2010, on the American Prize website, where the three orchestras were congratulated "for their outstanding achievement, ranked among the finest community orchestras in the country." Justin Albstein, Mercury Orchestra’s general manager, says, "it’s wonderful that our orchestra has received this recognition in only its second year. The musicians deserve tremendous credit for taking on some of the most challenging pieces in the repertoire and succeeding brilliantly." Adds Brian Van Sickle, principal flutist: "This is really an honor to receive such recognition. What I love most about playing in this orchestra is how sensitively all of the players work together and listen to one another. It’s a thrill to be a part of it all." Channing Yu music director and conductor  American
orchestra and opera conductor Channing Yu is Music Director of the
Mercury Orchestra in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Music Director of Bay
Colony Brass in Watertown, Massachusetts. He is national winner of the
2010 American Prize in Orchestral Conducting in the community orchestra
division. He has also served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Lowell House Opera, the oldest opera company in New England, where he conducted over thirty fully staged performances with orchestra, including Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Puccini’s Turandot, Verdi’s Otello, and Puccini’s Tosca. For his musical direction of Tosca, he was awarded second prize in the 2011 American Prize in Opera Conducting national competition. His 2013–14 invitational engagements include conducting the Fall River Symphony Orchestra (Fall River, MA) and Berlin Sinfonietta (Berlin, Germany), and adjudicating for the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition, the Brookline Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, and the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Concerto Competition. Of the Lowell House Opera’s performance of Otello, The Harvard Crimson wrote, "The production’s hero was the orchestra, under the keen direction of Channing Yu. Yu was able to channel all the energy of the 80-member ensemble into moments that spanned the entire emotional spectrum—from sheer joy to complete misery. The sound produced by the orchestra was stylish, heartfelt, and on the whole, refined." The Boston Musical Intelligencer noted, "The real star of the performance was the orchestra, led with great skill by Channing Yu." He served as guest conductor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, in its 2008 production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s baroque opera Les arts florissants. He guest conducted the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra in 2008 and 2009. He was invited as one of fourteen conductors worldwide to work with conductors Neeme Järvi, Leonid Grin, and Paavo Järvi in master classes at the 2009 Leigo Lakes Music Days Festival in Estonia. In 2010, he worked with George Pehlivanian and L’Ensemble Orchestral de València in Spain. In 2013 he worked with Johannes Schlaefli and conducted the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria. He began formal study of conducting at Harvard University with James Yannatos; there he served as assistant conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and conductor of the Toscanini Chamber Orchestra. Since then, he has worked with a number of conductor teachers in the master class setting, including Kenneth Kiesler, Diane Wittry, Charles Peltz, and Frank Battisti. Channing Yu grew up in Pennsylvania. Originally trained as a pianist, he was a divisional grand prize winner of the American Music Scholarship Association International Piano Competition, and he has appeared as piano soloist with numerous orchestras including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orchèstra Nova. He has been praised by The Boston Globe for his "imaginative piano work." He performs with the chamber ensemble sul ponticello, in Cambridge, MA. As a violinist, he has served as concertmaster of the Brahms Society Orchestra and as violinist in the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. He was a founding member of the string quartet Quartetto Periodico. As a lyric baritone, he has performed with the Boston Opera Collaborative, in the Richard Crittenden Opera Workshop in Boston, and in the Neil Semer Vocal Institute in Coesfeld and Aub, Germany. He also sings with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the Grammy award-winning chorus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops. He is a member of the faculty of the Powers Music School in Belmont, Massachusetts. Channing Yu lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  |
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