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The 26th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill
胡桃山音樂營
July 20 to August 13, 2017 |
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Concerts
and Master Classes
Admission free.
Suggested Donation $5 at door
Sunday, July 23, 2017, 7:30 PM
at
Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA
Hung-Kuan Chen
陳宏寬,
pianist
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~Program~
MOZART:
Suite in C Major, K. 399
Overture
Allemande
Courante
MOZART:
Eine Kleine Gigue in G Major, K. 574
SCHUBERT:
Sonata in C Minor, D. 958
Allegro
Adagio
Menuetto - Allegro
Allegro
~Intermission~
SCRIABIN:
Sonata No. 10, Op. 70
RACHMANINOFF:
Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 36
Allegro agitato
Non allegro
Allegro molto
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Steinway piano provided by M. Steinert &
Sons
Meet The Artists |
Hung-Kuan Chen
陳宏寬, Pianist
“This
man plays music with uncommon understanding and the instrument with
uncommon imagination.”
--Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
Hung-Kuan Chen is one of the great personalities of the music world:
enigmatic, brilliant and versatile. He is a pianist of uncompromising
individuality and a remarkably inspiring pedagogue. Born in Taipei and
raised in Germany, Mr. Chen’s early studies fostered strong roots in
Germanic Classicism, which he tempered with the sensibility of an
organic Chinese philosophy.
One of the most decorated pianists of his generation, Mr. Chen won top
prizes in the Arthur Rubinstein, the Busoni, Geza Anda, and YCA
International Piano Competitions along with prizes in the Queen
Elisabeth, Montreal, Van Cliburn and a Fisher Career Grant. He has
dedicated his pianism and love of music to hundreds of young students
worldwide. He is faculty of Artemisia Akademie at Yale and will teach
and perform at the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts and Aspen
Festival in the summer of 2015.
Prior to joining the Juilliard school in 2014 and continuing his
professorship at Yale University, he was Chair of the piano department
of Shanghai Conservatory and faculty at New England Conservatory. Mr.
Chen has adjudicated international competitions such as Van Cliburn,
Busoni, Shanghai International and Honens.
Collaborating with Christoph Eschenbach, Hans Graf, George Cleve, Josef
Silverstein, Sui Lan and Andrew Parrett, David Shifrin, Roman Totenberg,
Cho-Liang Lin, Shanghai Quartet, and has a piano duo with his wife, Tema
Blackstone.
In 1992, Chen suffered an injury to his hand, which caused neurological
damage and eventually resulted in focal dystonia. Through meditation and
his own unique research, he was able to heal and return to his life as a
concert artist. His first post-accident solo recital in March of 1998
received rave reviews and he was described as a transformed artist.
“Bach in the 80’s, Apollo and
Dionysus, Florestan and Eusebius were in Chen’s pianistic personality
and his poetic insight and unbridled power and passion have an added
repose: the forces have been brought into a complimentary harmony.”
(2015) |
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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 2017 |
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