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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
Friday, July 28, 2017, 2:30 PM
at
Boswell Recital Hall
Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA
Concerto
Competition
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
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~Results~
YuHang Li,
first prize
Born in Dalian, China, 17 years old Yuhang Li started his
piano training as a hobby with Ms. Ling Chen at the age of
six. Beside music, he has also explored his other talents
such as drawing and martial arts, and has won gold medal
twice in the Hong Kong International Kungfu Competition.
When Yuhang was ten, he composed his first piece and
convinced his parents to support him on his further music
studies. Since then, he had studied piano with Ms. Yang Yang
and Ms. Zhuoyi Li. In 2012, he won the first place of the
58th Grotrian Steinweg Schumann competition.
Later that year
he went to Austria to study with
professor
Nikolaus Wiplinger for three months. During that
time, 12 year-old
Yuhang won the first prize in the 14-16
year-old division of the European
International Music
competition of Moncalieri in Turin, Italy, and
was honored with special award in the competition.
At the age of 13, Yuhang moved to United States to continue
his music training, started with the Walnut Hill Music
Festival in MA. Later in 2014, he attended Piano Texas Music
Festival and performed Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat
Major with Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra as one of the
winners in the concerto competition. In 2015 he attended
Heartland Chamber Music Festival.
He is currently studying with Dr. Matti Raekallio
in the Juilliard School Precollege Division. |
Betty Zhang,
second prize
Orchestra reduction by Feng Niu
~Jury Panel~
(in alphabetical order)
Prof. Bruce Brubaker
Prof. Victor Cayres
Prof. Pi-Hsien Chen
Prof. Roberto Poli
and
Channing Yu:
Music Director and Conductor of Mercury Orchestra
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Steinway piano provided by M. Steinert &
Sons
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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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