中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
The 18th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill
July 31- August 21, 2009
Sunday, August 2,
2009, 7:30 PM
at Boswell Recital Hall
Lecture Performance
Mr. Nai-Yuan Hu 胡乃元, violin
Beethoven Violin
Concerto
Hsiao-Ling Chang,
piano |
Nai-Yuan Hu
Violin
Since
winning the First Prize in the prestigious Queen Elisabeth International
Competition of Belgium in 1985, violinist Nai-Yuan Hu has appeared on many
of the world’s stages, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Avery
Fisher Hall in New York and major venues in London, Paris, Munich, Tokyo and
other cities in Europe, North and South Americas and Asia. In praise of his
playing, BBC Music Magazine wrote, “Taiwanese violinist Nai-Yuan Hu is an
awesomely capable performer whose technical facility, musical intelligence
and unfaltering verve place him among the higher echelons of today’s string
virtuosi.”
Mr. Hu’s solo engagements include appearances with the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra of London, Toronto Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Netherland and
Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestras, Liège Philharmonic, Orchestre National de
Lille in France, Haifa Symphony, Austro-Hungarian Haydn Chamber Orchestra,
Tokyo Philharmonic and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, the National Symphony
Orchestra of Taiwan, Taipei City Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic and
others. With the Belgian National Orchestra, he toured throughout Germany in
such cities as Munich, Hannover and Dortmund. He has collaborated with such
conductors as George Cleve, Adam Fischer, Leon Fleisher, Gunther Herbig,
Emmanuel Krivine, Jahja Ling, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Gerard Schwarz, and
Maxim Shostakovich, among others. Mr. Hu has given recitals in such venues
as Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall in New York, Cité de la Musique
in Paris, Purcell Room in London, Casals Hall in Tokyo, and Jordan Hall in
Boston where he premiered Bright Sheng’s “The Stream Flows” in 1990. Other
engagements include appearances in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Dallas,
Montreal, Toronto, Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, The Hague, Toledo (Spain),
Bergen (Norway), Seoul, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. In Taiwan, he was
the featured soloist in the 1987 Inaugural Concert of the National Concert
Hall and played for two successive presidents Lee Teng-hui and Chen
Shui-bien in the Presidential Palace concerts.
In summer seasons, Mr. Hu has appeared either as a guest soloist or chamber
music artist in such festivals as Mostly Mozart, Marlboro, Grand Teton,
Waterloo, Seattle, and Newport. A chamber music enthusiast, he has
collaborated with such musicians as Fou Ts’ong, Martha Argerich, and Misha
Maisky in the 1999 Beijing Music Festival and participated in the Lincoln
Center Chamber Music Society concerts and Brooklyn’s Bargemusic series. Mr.
Hu is the music director of Taiwan Connection, a music festival he started
in his homeland in 2004, dedicated to promoting chamber music. Released by
Delos International, Mr. Hu’s recording of Goldmark’s Concerto and Bruch’s
Concerto No. 2 with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony garnered
“Critics’ Choice” from Gramophone as well as praises from many publications
including BBC Music Magazine, The Times of London, and The Washington Post.
His solo violin album Unaccompanied… on EMI label (with cover and art work
by the popular Taiwanese cartoonist Jimmy) received two Golden Melody Awards
in Taiwan for best classical album and best instrumentalist. His Vienna
Revisted, containing much beloved music from that fin-de siècle city, was
released late in 2003. Mr. Hu has made recordings for Koch and Sunrise. In
2001, Mr. Hu appeared in a cameo role as the rooftop violinist serenading
Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman in the Miramax romantic comedy, Kate & Leopold. In
that same year, he collaborated with Lin Hwai-min and his Cloud Gate Dance
Theater, performing Taiwanese composer Hsu Tsang-Houei’s Five Preludes for
Solo Violin in an outdoor presentation that was attended by over ten
thousand people.
Born in Taiwan, Mr. Hu began studying the violin at age five and was soloist
with the National Youth Orchestra of Taiwan three years later. He came to
the United States in 1972 to continue his studies, first with Broadus Erle
and later with Joseph Silverstein. At Indiana University, he studied with
Josef Gingold and also served as Gingold’s assistant after graduation. Mr.
Hu and his wife June Huang currently live in New York City.
Hsiao-Ling Chang, piano
Ms. Chang, currently a DMA degree candidate in piano performance under the
renowned pianist Gustavo Romero, began to study piano at the age of five and
was accepted into the Music Program of Talents under Taiwan Ministry of
Education since third grade. She also received early admission to Taipei
National University of the Arts studied with Mr. Rolf-Peter Wille. In 1998,
she came to New England Conservatory double majoring in piano and
collaborative piano. After graduation, she moved to Calgary, Canada to study
with Mr. Hung-Kuan Chen. She continued her studies at University of North
Texas as a recipient of the UNT College of Music Scholarship. She performed
with the Dallas Asian American Youth Orchestra at the Charles W. Eiseman
Center at Richardson, TX in 2007 and was the winner of 2007/8 Isabel Scionti
Scholarship Awards. Ms. Chang served as a staff accompanist at Stephen
Austin University since 2009. An active chamber musician, Ms. Chang shared
the stage with renowned pianist Gustavo Romero in two-piano concerts in
Taiwan and Texas. She gave her Carnegie Hall debut as an honor member of the
Taipei National University of Arts’ alumni in May 2009.
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