Foundation for Chinese
Performing Arts
Summer FREE Concert @ NEC 2023
夏日系列音樂會
at New England Conservatory,
Boston, Massachusetts Aug
10 to 26, 2023
All concerts Admission Free, suggested donation $10 at door
Age 6 and under not admitted
CONCERT 13
Thursday, August 24, 2023,
7:30 pm
at
NEC's Williams Hall
Qianqian Li李倩茜,
violin
Cong Wu
吳聰,
viola
Nathan Vickery,
cello
Yinfei Wang
王寅飛,
piano
~Program~
Robert Schumann:
Fantasiestücke, Op. 73, for Cello and Piano Zart und mit Ausdruck
Lebhaft, leicht
Rasch und mit Feuer
Max Reger:
Suite for Solo Viola No. 1 in G minor, Op. 131D Motto
Sostenuto
Vivace
Andante Sostenuto
Motto Vivace
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Violin Sonata No. 32 in B-flat major, K. 454
Largo - Allegro
Andante
Allegretto
~Intermission~
Johannes Brahms:
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Allegro
Intermezzo: Allegto ma non troppo - Trio: Animato
Andante con moto
Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto
Admission Free, suggested donation $10 at door.
Age 6 and under not admitted.
中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts
photos: Chung Cheng
event photos: Xiaopei Xu and Chi Wei Lo
Qianqian Li 李倩茜,
violin
https://nyphil.org/about-us/artists/qianqian-li
Violinist
Qianqian Li joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal,
Second Violin Group, in December 2017. An avid chamber
musician, she has performed with Donald Weilerstein, Roger
Tapping, Natasha Brofsky, Brett Dean, Gilbert Kalish, Curtis
Macomber, and Anthony Marwood. Her honors include First
Prize at Kazakhstan’s inaugural International Violin
Competition, the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize at the
Tanglewood Music Center, the Ishikawa Music Academy Award,
and prizes won with the Clara Piano Trio, of which she was a
member for one year.
Ms. Li has performed at major music festivals including
Aspen, Tanglewood, Yellow Barn, and Sarasota. As a soloist,
she has performed with orchestras in major concert halls in
Asia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and South
Africa. Her performances have been broadcast live on the
radio, including by WGBH Boston. Before joining the New York
Philharmonic, she served as a member of the first violin
section of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for three years,
after winning positions with the orchestras of Seattle,
Atlanta, and St. Paul in the same period. She has also
performed in the Boston, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta symphony
orchestras and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Born in Nanjing, China, Qianqian Li received both her
bachelor and master of music degrees from the New England
Conservatory, where she studied with Donald Weilerstein and
served as his teaching assistant, and was granted the
Laurence Lesser Presidential Scholarship. Her other mentors
include Malcolm Lowe and Lina Yu.
Cong
Wu joined the New York Philharmonic as Assistant Principal
Viola, The Norma and Lloyd Chazen Chair, in September 2018.
He is the winner of the Third Prize and the Chamber Music
Prize in the Fourteenth Primrose International Viola
Competition, and the Special Prize in the Twelfth Tertis
International Viola Competition. His performances throughout
North America and Asia include solo appearances with the
Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Macau Youth Orchestra, and
New York Classical Players.
An avid chamber musician, Wu has collaborated with Christoph
Eschenbach, David Finckel, Itzhak Perlman, Peter Wiley,
Pinchas Zukerman, American String Quartet, and many New York
Philharmonic musicians. His festival engagements have
included the Marlboro Music Festival, The Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Encounters,
Music@Menlo, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Perlman
Music Program, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, and
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany. He also
appears regularly with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players,
East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and New York Classical
Players.
Passionate about teaching, Wu is on the faculty of SUNY–Purchase
College Conservatory of Music. He has been a guest faculty
member of the National Arts Centre Summer Music Institute in
Canada, and has been invited to give masterclasses at the
Manhattan School of Music, Mead Witter School of Music
(University of Wisconsin-Madison), China Conservatory of
Music, Hong Kong Baptist University, and the Renmin
University of China.
Born in Jinan, China, Cong (pronounced “Ts’ong”) Wu moved to
New York in 2010 after receiving his bachelor’s degree from
the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. He holds a
master’s degree from The Juilliard School and a doctoral
degree from Manhattan School of Music. His teachers have
included Wing Ho, Heidi Castleman, Hsin-Yun Huang, Patinka
Kopec, and Pinchas Zukerman.
Lauded
as a “formidable cello soloist” (The New York Times),
cellist Nathan Vickery appears regularly in solo and chamber
music recitals and at music festivals around the country. In
a 2016 performance of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, he was
celebrated for his “talent and artistry” and his “fresh and
appealing account” of the work (The New York Times).
Vickery joined the New York Philharmonic in September 2013
as its youngest member, and has since performed and toured
with the Orchestra at home in New York and throughout the
world. He also appears frequently in the New York
Philharmonic Ensembles chamber music series at Merkin Hall,
and in the NY Phil’s new-music series.
Nathan Vickery is a member of the Rosamunde String Quartet,
in which he joins with violinists Noah Bendix-Balgley and
Shanshan Yao and violist Teng Li. He has appeared as a
soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and as a
recitalist and chamber musician at festivals including the
Marlboro Chamber Music Festival, Summer Music at Indiana
University, and the Steans Music Institute at Ravinia. He
has served on the faculty of the Indiana University Summer
String Academy, teaches privately in New York City and with
the Shanghai Orchestra Academy, the New York Philharmonic’s
professional training partnership with the Shanghai Symphony
Orchestra and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and enjoys
presenting masterclasses.
Yinfei Wang
王寅飛,
piano
Pianist
Yinfei Wang made his first public appearance at the age of
seven in the Shanghai Concert Hall. Since then, he has
performed throughout China, Singapore, Spain, Australia and
the United States. He has been a prizewinner of many
national and international piano competitions, including
Washington International Piano Competition, Gershwin
International Piano Competition, Five Towns Piano
Comeptition in New York, Jacob Flier Piano Competition,
Shande Ding Piano Competition in Shanghai, Chopin Piano
Competition in Connecticut and many others. As a soloist,
Mr. Wang has performed with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic
Orchestra, the MSM Symphony Orchestra, with conductors
Vladimir Feltsman, Phillipe Entremont, among others.
An avid chamber musician, Mr. Wang has performed in many
music festivals and concert series, including The Perlman
Music Program, PianoSummer at New Paltz, Summer Concerts at
NEC in Boston, Walnut Hill Music Festival, the Concerts on
the Slope series in New York, and many others. He has
collaborated with musicians such as Thomas Hill, Nai-Yuan Hu,
Nicholas Kitchen, Kenneth Radnofsky and Cong Wu. His
recordings could be found in the Shanghai Conservatory of
Music: Seventieth Anniversary Gala Album.
Mr. Wang received his Bachelor’s degree from the Shanghai
Conservatory of Music, his Master’s and Doctor of Musical
Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music. His
Principle teachers include Phillip Kawin, Yanxin Chen,
Christopher Zhong and Chongfang Zhang.
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
Violinist
Qianqian Li joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal,
Second Violin Group, in December 2017. An avid chamber
musician, she has performed with Donald Weilerstein, Roger
Tapping, Natasha Brofsky, Brett Dean, Gilbert Kalish, Curtis
Macomber, and Anthony Marwood. Her honors include First
Prize at Kazakhstan’s inaugural International Violin
Competition, the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize at the
Tanglewood Music Center, the Ishikawa Music Academy Award,
and prizes won with the Clara Piano Trio, of which she was a
member for one year.
Cong
Wu joined the New York Philharmonic as Assistant Principal
Viola, The Norma and Lloyd Chazen Chair, in September 2018.
He is the winner of the Third Prize and the Chamber Music
Prize in the Fourteenth Primrose International Viola
Competition, and the Special Prize in the Twelfth Tertis
International Viola Competition. His performances throughout
North America and Asia include solo appearances with the
Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Macau Youth Orchestra, and
New York Classical Players.
Lauded
as a “formidable cello soloist” (The New York Times),
cellist Nathan Vickery appears regularly in solo and chamber
music recitals and at music festivals around the country. In
a 2016 performance of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, he was
celebrated for his “talent and artistry” and his “fresh and
appealing account” of the work (The New York Times).
Pianist
Yinfei Wang made his first public appearance at the age of
seven in the Shanghai Concert Hall. Since then, he has
performed throughout China, Singapore, Spain, Australia and
the United States. He has been a prizewinner of many
national and international piano competitions, including
Washington International Piano Competition, Gershwin
International Piano Competition, Five Towns Piano
Comeptition in New York, Jacob Flier Piano Competition,
Shande Ding Piano Competition in Shanghai, Chopin Piano
Competition in Connecticut and many others. As a soloist,
Mr. Wang has performed with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic
Orchestra, the MSM Symphony Orchestra, with conductors
Vladimir Feltsman, Phillipe Entremont, among others. 
