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
Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 7:00 PM
at
Boston Esplanade
Longwood Symphony
Orchestra
Ronald Feldman,
Conductor and Music Director
Program
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37, (Soloist TBA)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, “From the New World”
Ying Li, piano |
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Meet The Artists
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Ying Li, pianist [Winner
of the 2013 concerto competition]
Born in China, Ying Li
began her piano studies at age of five. At age of nine, she
moved to Beijing to study at The Middle School Affiliated to
The Central Conservatory of Music. Ying received the First
Prize Winner in the junior group of the 2010 7th Liszt
International Competition in Moscow, Russia; and was invited
by the pianists Olga Kern and Enrica Ciccarelli to give
concerts in Milan and Como, Italy. She also received The
Special Talent Prize at the 20th International Piano
Concerto Competition in Cantu, Italy, as well as the First
Prize of the 7th International Competition for Young
Pianists in St. Petersburg, Russia. Ying is currently
studying with Seymour Lipkin at The Curtis Institute of
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Ronald Feldman,
conductor
Longwood Symphony Orchestra
Two-time winner of the League of American Orchestras’ ASCAP
Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, Ronald
Feldman has achieved critical acclaim for his work as a
conductor and cellist. He has appeared as a guest conductor with
major orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the
Boston Pops Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the
St. Louis Symphony, and the Quebec Symphony, as well as many
regional orchestras, including the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
and the symphony orchestras of Springfield (MA), Albany, and
Amarillo.
After successful appearances as a guest conductor for three
consecutive seasons at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, Feldman
assumed the post of Assistant Conductor of the Boston Pops
Orchestra. He served as assistant to Boston Pops Principal
Conductor and composer John Williams from 1989 to 1993.
Seiji Ozawa, Conductor Laureate of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, called Feldman “an outstanding conductor…with a deep
musical mind, which is clearly conveyed through his
performances.” John Williams regarded Feldman as “a brilliant
conductor who displays the best leadership qualities…and an
outstandingly high level of musicianship that imbues his
conducting style with strength, taste, and imagination.”
Feldman joined the Boston Symphony as a cellist at the age of 19
and played with the orchestra until 2001. He has appeared as a
soloist with numerous orchestras, performing a wide range of
concerto repertoire from Dvořák to Ligeti. His many chamber
music affiliations have included performances with the Boston
Symphony Chamber Players, Collage New Music, the Boston
Conservatory Chamber Players, and the Williams Chamber Players.
Other performances have included collaborations with violinist
Gil Shaham, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and pianists Emmanuel Ax and
Garrick Ohlsson.
Feldman recorded an all-Mozart album with the George Enescu
Philharmonic Orchestra of Bucharest, which received excellent
reviews in the American Record Guide and Fanfare Magazine. In
his review, Steven Ritter of the American Record Guide asserted,
“the Mozart Symphony No. 29 is given a dazzling reading,
effulgent and scintillating, with articulation and note length
all in sync.” Bernard Jacobson of Fanfare Magazine wrote,
“Feldman secures a polished and alert account of the Mozart
Symphony No. 29.” Feldman also conducted the London Symphony
Orchestra and virtuoso trumpet player Arturo Sandoval in a
recording of music by John Williams and Kevin Kaska.
In 2001, Feldman left the Boston Symphony Orchestra to pursue
other musical interests. He has served as Music Director of the
New England Philharmonic and the Worcester Orchestra. Feldman
joined the Longwood Symphony Orchestra as Music Director in July
2012 and also serves as Music Director of the Berkshire Symphony
Orchestra, a regional orchestra in residence at Williams
College. In addition to serving on the faculties of the New
England Conservatory of Music and the Berklee College of Music,
Feldman is Artist in Residence, Lecturer in Music, and Chamber
Music Coordinator as a faculty member of Williams College.
Longwood
Symphony Orchestra
www.longwoodsymphony.org
The Longwood Symphony Orchestra was established in 1982 by
members of the Boston’s medical community. The LSO is an
orchestra of musicians playing at the highest level, dedicated
to community service through music. All are artists; most are
also scientists and humanists, living and working in the greater
Boston area. Over 80% of LSO musicians work in the health
sciences.
The mission of the LSO is to perform works of musical diversity
and artistic excellence while supporting health-related
non-profit organizations through public performances. In this
way, the LSO utilizes music as a healing force to bring the
community together. Thousands of people benefit each year from
LSO performances through its Healing Art of Music™ program.
Since 1991, the orchestra has helped rising over $1,000,000 for
the medically underserved, by performing every concert in
collaboration with a medical or educational non-profit
organization.
The LSO performs four concerts in New England Conservatory’s
Jordan Hall during its regular concert season. Guest artists of
the Longwood Symphony are drawn from the rich community of
internationally recognized artists that live in and around New
England. They include violinists Lynn Chang, Irina Muresanu, and
Vali Phillips; cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Clancy Newman, sopranos
Joanna Porackova and Diana McVey; baritones Mark Aliapoulios and
Stephen Salters, and pianists Dr. Richard Kogan, Hung-Kuan Chen
and Randall Hodgkinson, among many others. The concerts have
received critical acclaim for musical quality and unique
programming. The orchestra also performs an annual free summer
concert at the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Esplanade in
collaboration with the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. (2012)
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www.Boston.com, August 20, 2013
Melrose, Wakefield
Melrose cellist Kyle Yee performs
with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra at the Hatch Shell
Posted by Juan Cajigas
Jimenez,
August 20, 2013 10:00 AM
The
following was submitted by the Healthman Manor:
Melrosian
Kyle Yee performed with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra on
August 14, 2013, when they were the guest orchestra in the
Boston Landmarks Orchestra’s Concerts at DCR’s Hatch
Shell. Yee was a guest cellist in the Orchestra, under
music director Ronald Feldman. On a gorgeous autumn
evening, the Orchestra beautifully performed Ludwig van
Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Piano Concerto No. 3,
and Antonin Dvorak’s lyrical, dramatic Symphony No. 9
(named “From the New World”). Dvorak was deeply inspired
by his 3-year stay in America, and incorporated
Native-American themes, African-American spirituals, and
his native Bohemian folk music in one of the most popular
symphonies. Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong took a
recording of this symphony to the moon in 1969. The
Longwood Symphony also delighted the capacity crowd with
an encore of Johannes Brahms’ rhythmic Hungarian Dance No.
5, which got the appreciative audience clapping during the
piece with Conductor Feldman.
Ms. Ying Li,
who studies at The Curtis Institute of Music in
Philadelphia and is the 2013 winner of The Foundation for
Chinese Performing Arts Annual Piano Concerto Competition,
was the talented soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.
3. This beloved, lyrical, and sometimes turbulent work
premiered in 1803 with Beethoven at the piano, and is
written in his favorite key of C minor.
Playing
with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra
Yee received
a grant from The Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
and a Mary P. Chatfield Cultural Scholarship from The
Commonwealth School to attend The 22nd-Annual Music
Festival at Walnut Hill, a 3-week music festival that
takes place at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in
Natick. Every year, the Foundation brings talented youth
from all over the U.S. and Asia to participate in the
intensive 3-week musical training program, whose faculty
includes internationally known performers and teachers.
During the Festival, Yee and his fellow student performers
played with the Longwood Symphony, studied music,
performed concerts, participated in master classes,
ventured to cultural/musical locales including Tanglewood
to attend a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert, and in gala
concerts, played challenging compositions of well-known
composers in a chamber orchestra and smaller groups.
More
about the musician
Yee is a
junior at The Commonwealth School in Boston’s Back Bay,
and also studies at New England Conservatory’s (NEC)
Preparatory School, where he is a private student of
cellist Sam Ou (praised by the Boston Globe for his
“impassioned performance”) and chamber music student at
NEC under noted composer Rodney Lister. Prior to this, he
attended Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School, and
studied private cello with Wakefield resident John
Bumstead. |
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Thank you
for your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts
updated 2013 |
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