The 22nd Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill  
胡桃山音樂營
July 25 to August 17, 2013

 Concerts and Master Classes
Admission free. Suggested Donation $5 at door
 


Monday, July 29, 2013, 7:30 PM
at
Orchid Cove Senior Community
 www.Orchard-Cove.org
One Del Pond Drive, Canton, MA 

Carol Ou, cello
 Lia Wang, piano
 

Program
   

Five Pieces in Folkstyle, op. 102 (1849)……………….........Robert Schumann
Mit Humor                                                                              (1810-1856)
Langsam
Nicht schnell, mit viel Ton zu spielen
Nicht zu rasch
Stark und markirt

Suite no. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 (1720)………........Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude                                                                                    (1685-1750)
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Menuet I & II
Gigue

Adagio and Allegro, op. 70 (1849)…………………………..Robert Schumann
(1810-1856)

Scherzo, op. 12 (1895)…………….………………………………Daniel Van Goens
(1858-1904)

 
Steinway piano provided by M. Steinert & Sons

 Meet The Artists
Carol Ou 歐逸青, Cellist

A versatile artist, cellist Carol Ou is known for her “fiery, marvelous” and “meltingly melodic outpourings” (Boston Globe) and her “wonderfully pure cello tone and incisive technique.” (The Strad Magazine) As the cellist of the Carpe Diem String Quartet, she frequently tours all over the US performing a zesty mix of classical string quartet repertoire with many crossover genres of music. The Washington Post writes of Carpe Diem String Quartet’s recent performance: “an adventurous and often breathtaking recital of modern music at the National Gallery of Art’s West Garden Court…The excitement continued with Bela Bartok’s equally volatile Fifth String Quartet from 1934, whose landscapes of slashing chords and windswept wildness were brought off with white-hot intensity.” In addition to performing with her quartet, Ms. Ou has performed with celebrated artists such as Hillary Hahn, James Buswell, Kim Kashkashian, Timothy Eddy, Pascal Rogé, and András Schiff at the Marlboro Music Festival, Summerfest La Jolla, Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Nevada Chamber Music Festival, and other noted music festivals.

At ease with the diverse music styles of the last five centuries, Ms. Ou regularly programs traditional European masterworks with more eclectic works in concert. She has recorded three of the most beloved cello concerti by Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Elgar and premiered several new compositions written for her. She gave the first performance of Hsiao Tyzen's Cello Concerto in Taipei and collaborated with Hsiao on the premiere of a number of solo and chamber music works throughout the US and Singapore. American composers such as Richard Toensing and the late Daniel Pinkham have also dedicated works to her. Other unusual works that she has performed include Tan Dun's Ghost Opera for string quartet and pipa, Peter Sculthorpe's string quartet with didjeridu, and Reza Vali’s Calligraphy no. 4 for string quartet and the Persian santoor. This season, in her new role as Carpe Diem String Quartet’s cellist, she has collaborated with the Latin Grammy winner and master of the bandoneon, Raul Juarena in Piazzolla’s 4 Seasons of Buenas Aires. With banjo sensation, Jayme Stone, she has performed repertoire as far ranging as Bach’s Art of the Fugue, West African praise songs, Bulgarian dances and bluegrass fiddling music.

A graduate of Yale University, Ms. Ou received her BA magna cum laude from Yale College and her MM and DMA in music performance from the Yale School of Music. She has taught cello students at Yale and MIT, and was the director of strings, chamber music and orchestral studies at Gordon College. She is currently on the cello and chamber music faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Since 2007, Ms. Ou has also been the chamber music director and coordinator of the Heifetz International Summer Music Institute in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire and Staunton, Virginia. In addition to her regular teaching duties, Carol Ou has traveled extensively to give cello and chamber music master classes in Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, Argentina, Ukraine, Australia, Taiwan, Canada, and throughout the US.

Ms. Ou's solo recordings are all issued by the Chi-Mei Foundation in Taiwan. Her chamber music recordings of the 20th century repertoire can be found on the Naxos and CRI labels. Her recording of Walter Piston's Chamber Music, issued by Naxos, won the 2001 Chamber Music America's Best Chamber Music CD award.

Links:
New England Conservatory of Music - www.necmusic.edu
Carpe Diem String Quartet - www.cdsq.org

2013

 Lia Wang , pianist

A Born in Guiyang, China Miss Wang received the first piano lesson at the age of 3 and gave her first public performance in the following year. She attended the Shanghai Music Middle School Affiliated with Shanghai Conservatory, and later the Shanghai Conservatory, where she studied with Prof. Chongfang Zhang, Prof. Chen Jiang, Prof. Jianzhong Wang, and Prof. Hung-Kuan Chen.

Miss Wang has been active as solo pianist, as well as being in great demand as a collaborator. She has given performances in Germany, Spain, United States and China. During the years when she studied at Shanghai Conservatory, she was invited frequently to perform concerti and chamber music with Shanghai Philharmonic. In August 2009, she was one of the selected young pianists to perform at Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. for the International Piano Festival.

Miss Wang received her bachelor and master’s degree in piano performance from the Eastman School of Music, where she was under the tutelage of Prof. Nelita True. Currently, she is studying with Prof. Boris Slutsky at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.

(2013)



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
updated 2013