Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Summer FREE Concert @ NEC 2025
夏日系列音樂會
at New England Conservatory,
Boston, Massachusetts

 
Aug 8 to 24, 2025
All concerts Admission Free, suggested donation $10 at door
Age 6 and under not admitted
 


 



Concert 3

Saturday, August 9, 2025, 7:30 pm
at
NEC's Williams Hall

Leland Ko, cellist
Adria Ye
, pianist





 

~Program~

FELIX MENDELSSOHN
(1809-1847)  :
 Sonata for Piano and Cello No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 45
(1838)
Allegro vivace
Andante
Allegro assai
(24')
 
GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924)  :
Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109
(1917)
Allegro
Andante
Finale — Allegro commodo
(18')
 
~Intermission ~

NADIA BOULANGER
(1887-1979)  :
3 Pieces for Cello and Piano
(1914)
Modéré
Sans vitesse et à l'aise
Vite et nerveusement rythmé
(7')
 
THOMAS ADÈS (b. 1971)  :
Lieux retrouvés (Rediscovered Places), Op. 26
(2009)
Les eaux
La montagne
Les champs
La ville: cancan macabre
(22')
 
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918) :
Sonata for Cello and Piano, L. 135
(1915)
Prologue: Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto
Sérénade: Modérément animé
Finale: Animé, léger et nerveux
(12')
 

 

 

Admission Free, suggested donation $10 at door.
Children under 6 not admitted.

中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts

 
 

Leland Ko, cellist
https://www.lelandko.com/about
 
Cellist Leland Philip Ko (b. 1998) is the kind of person who is always asking “why” — American-born but of Chinese-Canadian descent, schooled at both university and conservatory, and extremely thorough in any number of activities ranging from competitive tennis and distance-running to home-baking and origami, he wants to find the similarities between seemingly disparate things, and in doing so hopefully find something human in everything.  Above all, Leland does his best to remember advice once given to him that music is about life, not the other way around.

Described as someone with “Disarming charisma” (South Florida Classical Review) yet simultaneously as someone “Byronic” and “excelling in both poetic longing and dramatic outbursts” (Boston Classical Review), Leland has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in venues across America and abroad, from Carnegie Hall in New York and Symphony Hall in Boston to the Maison Symphonique in Montréal; and internationally in Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Israel, Spain, Korea, and Hong Kong.  He is a first prize winner of the Concours Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Concert Artists Guild Louis and Susan Meisel Competition, and the Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition.

Highlights for Leland’s 2025-2026 season include appearances with the Orchestre Symphonique de Sherbrooke and the DuPage Symphony; recitals at the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts, Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, Pro Musica San Miguel de Allende, Pepperdine University, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall; and chamber music for the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, the Kaufman Center’s Merkin Hall, Palm Beach State College, and Chico Performances.  Past engagements over the last decade have included concerto appearances with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Princeton University Orchestra, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and multiple appearances with the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the New England Conservatory Philharmonia, Symphony Pro Musica, the Apollo Ensemble of Boston, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.

Despite growing up a part of Boston’s strong youth orchestra culture, Leland has sought out chamber music throughout his life, having partaken at ChamberFest West, Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival, Meetinghouse Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Music Society, Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Yellowbarn, Ravinia's Steans Music Institute, Four Seasons Chamber Music Workshop, and the Perlman Music Program’s Summer Music School and its Chamber Music Workshop.  Leland’s love for chamber music has also led him to be a former Artist in Residence of New York Piano Society (NYPS), and former Music Director of Opus 21, a student-run chamber music collective at Princeton.  He is the cellist of Trio Rai, the OAK Trio, the Phaidros Quartet, and also a frequent member of Sejong Soloists.

Leland was a long-time student of Kirsten Peltz, Ronald Lowry, and Paul Katz before attending Princeton University, where he graduated with an A.B. in German Literature.  He went on to complete an M.M. at The Juilliard School under the teaching of Minhye Clara Kim, Timothy Eddy, and Natasha Brofsky, and then earned an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory under guidance of Laurence Lesser, Yeesun Kim, and Donald Weilerstein.  Leland performs on a cello by Giovanni Battista Rugeri, Cremona, c. 1710, ex-Denis Vigay, which is on generous loan to him from Canimex Inc.; and professional development activities for Leland are generously supported by Marilyn G. and Joseph B. Schwartz.  He resides in Boston, with his 13-year-old cat, Ham.

Adria Ye, pianist
 
Chinese-American pianist Adria Ye has been driven from a young age by a hopeless fascination with music. Described by cellist David Finckel as having a “naturally beautiful sound and lyric instinct,” she made her orchestral debut at nine with the Oregon Sinfonietta, and has since performed as soloist and chamber musician across Europe, China, and the United States. She has been featured in radio broadcasts of “Performance Today” with Fred Child, and National Public Radio’s “From the Top.” Most recently, she was the recipient of the Paul Streit Special Prize at the 2022 Concours de Genéve, and was the winner of the 2022 Music Academy of the West Solo Piano Competition.

An avid chamber musician, Adria has also participated in and performed at festivals including the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival’s Spring Workshop, the Innsbrook Institute, and the David Finckel-Wu Han Chamber Music Studio at the Aspen Music Festival and School. She frequently collaborates with and performs with cellist Leland Ko.

Adria earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at the Juilliard School with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin, and a Graduate Diploma at the New England Conservatory with Wha-Kyung Byun.

 




 

 

 



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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln,  Massachusetts