The 27th Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill
胡桃山音樂營
July 19 to
August 12, 2018
Concerts
and Master Classes
Admission free.
Suggested Donation $5 at door
Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in D minor, Op.
108
Allegro
Adagio
Un poco presto e con sentimento
Presto agitato
—Intermission—
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No. 9 in A major
"Kreutzer" Op. 47
Adagio sostenuto – Presto
Andante con variazioni
Presto
Pablo de Sarasate: Carmen Concert Fantasy Op.25
Allegro moderato
Moderato
Lento assai
Allegro moderato
Moderato
Steinway piano provided by M. Steinert & Sons
Meet The Artists
Angelo Xiang Yu于翔,
violinist
Winner
of the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition
in 2010, violinist Angelo Xiang Yu's astonishing technique, exquisite
tone, and exceptional musical maturity have won him consistent critical
acclaim and enthusiastic audience response worldwide.
In addition to winning First Prize as well as the Bach and Audience
Prizes at the Menuhin Competition, Mr. Yu was awarded the 2nd prize
at the Lipinski Wieniawski International Violin Competition, and
the 3rd prize at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition.
In March 2017, he was chosen to join the roster of the prestigious
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s CMS Two, beginning with
the 18/19 season.
In North America, Angelo Xiang Yu’s recent and upcoming orchestral
engagements include appearances with the orchestras in Pittsburgh,
Toronto, Vancouver and Houston, as well as with the North Carolina,
Alabama, Charlotte, Rhode Island, Puerto Rico, Grand Rapids, Toledo,
Modesto, Tucson, Elgin, Binghamton and Lake Forest symphonies. In
the summer of 2016, he participated for the second season in a row
in Portland, Oregon’s Chamber Music Northwest festival and made
his debut at the Green Music Center Chamberfest in Sonoma, California.
Internationally, he has appeared with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra,
Auckland Philharmonia, Munich Chamber Orchestra and Oslo Philharmonic
Orchestra.
Highlights of his 17/18 season include debuts with the Colorado
and Pasadena symphonies, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Grant
Park Music Festival in downtown Chicago and his recital debut at
the Ravinia Festival; re-engagements with the North Carolina, Puerto
Rico and Lake Forest symphonies; a return to Jordan Hall in Boston;
and a debut appearance with the New Zealand Symphony with performances
throughout the country.
An active recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Yu has performed
in a number of world renowned venues such as Konzerthaus Berlin,
Louvre Auditorium in Paris, National Centre for the Performing Arts
in Beijing, Victoria Theater in Singapore, Shanghai Concert Hall,
Oslo Opera House, Auckland Town Hall, Bennett Gordon Hall in Chicago,
Jordan Hall and Symphony Hall in Boston. He has also appeared in
several of the world’s leading summer music festivals including
the Verbier Festival, Ravinia Festival, Bergen Festival and the
Perlman Music Program. During the 12/13 season, Mr. Yu was invited
to tour with Miriam Fried and chamber musicians from the Ravinia
Festival’s Steans Institute and performed concerts in New York,
Chicago, Florida and throughout New England.
Born in Inner Mongolia China, Angelo Xiang Yu moved to Shanghai
at the age of 11 and received his early training from violinist
Qing Zheng at the Shanghai Conservatory. Mr. Yu earned his Bachelor’s
and Master's degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in
Boston, where he was the recipient of the Irene M. Stare Presidential
Scholarship in Violin and was a student of Donald Weilerstein, Miriam
Fried, Kim Kashkashian, and served as the teaching assistant of
Donald Weilerstein. He was the only instrumentalist invited to be
a candidate for NEC’s most prestigious Artist Diploma, which he
was awarded in May 2014.
Mr. Yu currently resides in Boston and performs on a 1729 Stradivarius
violin generously on loan from an anonymous donor.
Peter Fang
(方壯壯), Piano Hailed
“piano prodigy” by The Seattle Time and acclaimed for an “immense
and electric (performance)…exhibits more winning confidence than
most of his peers” by The Boston Music Intelligence, Peter Fang
is a pianist who relishes embracing the major masterpieces of the
repertoire. His recitals have typically included such large works
as Chopin 24 Études, Debussy 12 Études, Liszt Transcendental Études,
and the complete piano sonatas of Brahms. Born in Taipei, Taiwan,
Mr. Fang’s early endeavors when he began his piano study with his
father at age 4 included smaller works such as Bach’s Minuet in
G, which he loved, and Isidor Philipp’s Piano Exercises and Études,
which he did not. Mr. Fang’s father, who is a private music teacher,
also taught him violin, viola, and composition. Subsequently, his
fourteen years of serious violin education gave him a special affinity
for working with others.
As a passionate chamber musician, Mr. Fang has collaborated and
performed with violinists Nicholas Kitchen, Lev Klychkov, Angelo
Yu, Cellist Sam Ou, and among others. As a first prize winner at
The 2012 Steinway Piano Competition and a recipient of Chi Mei Art
Award, Mr. Fang has performed in many prestigious concert halls
around the world. These include Boston Symphony Hall, Taipei National
Concert Hall, KHS Hall, National Taichung Theater, Monteverdi Conservatory’s
A. B. Michelangeli Hall, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall,
Juilliard’s Paul Hall, Seattle Benaroya Hall, Salzburger Barockmuseum,
Keiter Center at The Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and Indiana
Debartolo Performing Center.
In 2014, Mr. Fang substituted at the last minute for the 2011 Warsaw
International Chopin Competition winner Sa Chen, playing with violinist
Feng Ning at NEC’s Jordan Hall, and the performance was hailed “highly
impressive and phenomenal” by The World Journal. Moreover, Mr. Fang
has frequently performed works by renown living composers. His recent
activities include a premier performance of Premonitions by Kenji
Bunch in 2015; a solo recording of Light and Darkness by Victor
Kong in 2016; the piano quintet Enchanted Garden by Behzad Ranjbaran
at Juilliard’s Morse Hall in 2017; the piano trio Differences and
Repetitions by Dai Bo at Juilliard’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater in
2018. Mr. Fang is also the co-founder of the Edelweiss Piano Trio
with violinist Yun-Jae Choi and cellist Ye-Young Yoo, giving many
chamber concerts in the Greater Boston area.
Mr. Fang received his Bachelor of Music degree from the New England
Conservatory, where he studied with professors Alexander Korsantia,
Hung-Kuan Chen, and Meng-Chieh Liu, and he received his Master of
Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he continued his piano
study with Hung-Kuan Chen.
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
updated 2018