Saturday, February 12, 2011, 8 pm  at Jordan Hall
Presenting

 
琴心集-弦鍵上的天籟
Instrumental Minds
   
  胡乃元
Nai-Yuan Hu,
violin
安寧
Ning An,
piano
章雨亭
Bion Tsang,
cello

 


  

 






琴心集-弦鍵上的天籟
 
Instrumental Minds

Program

Nai-Yuan Hu, violin
Bion Tsang, cello,
and
Ning An, piano
  


Sergei Rachmaninoff
Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42

Zoltan Kodaly
Duo, Op. 7, for Violin and Cello
Allegro Serioso non troppo
Adagio
Maestoso e largamente, ma non troppo lento


--Intermission--

Anton Arensky
Trio in D minor, Op. 32, for Violin, Cello and Piano
Allegro moderato
Scherzo: Allegro molto
Elegia: Adagio
Finale: Allegro non troppo


 

Cello Master Class
by Bion Tsang

Saturday, 2/12, 9 -11 AM
NEC Keller Room


Madeleine Tucker, Ariel Kao, and Jina Lee
Playing
the 1st and 4th movements of Elgar Concerto
and the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations.
Joy Cline Phinney, pianist


Admission is Free - All are Welcome

Nai-Yuan Hu

Violin

Since winning the First Prize in the prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Competition 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, Brussels, Munich, 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, Belgian National Orchestra, Liège Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lille in France, Haifa Symphony, Austro-Hungarian Haydn Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, Taiwan’s NSO & NTSO, China and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras and others. He has collaborated with such conductors as George Cleve, Adam Fischer, Leon Fleisher, Gunther Herbig, Jahja Ling, Shao-Chia Lu, Gerard Schwarz, Maxim Shostakovich, and Hubert Soudant, 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. In summer seasons, he has appeared either as a guest soloist or chamber music artist in such festivals as Mostly Mozart, Marlboro, OK Mozart, Seattle, and Newport. In 1999, he collaborated with Fou Ts’ong, Martha Argerich and Misha Maisky in the Beijing Music Festival. Mr. Hu is the Music Director of Taiwan Connection, a music festival he founded in his native homeland in 2004. A conductorless chamber orchestra consisting of young talented Taiwanese musicians was incorporated to the Festival in 2007.

Mr. Hu’s recording of Goldmark’s Concerto and Bruch’s Concerto No. 2 with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony (for the label Delos) 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…" for EMI label received two Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan for best classical album and best instrumentalist. In 2003, he released "Vienna Revisted" which comprises many of the beloved violin pieces from a bygone era.

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 and Josef Gingold.

Bion Tsang  Cellist
www.BionTsang.com

Cellist Bion Tsang has been internationally recognized as one of the outstanding instrumentalists of his generation: among his many honors are an Avery Fisher Career Grant, an MEF Career Grant and the Bronze Medal in the IX International Tchaikovsky Competition. He has performed as soloist with such orchestras as the New York, Moscow and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestras, the Atlanta, Pacific, Civic, American and National Symphony Orchestras, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Taiwan National Orchestra.

Mr. Tsang’s chamber music career has also been a distinguished one, marked by collaborations with such artists as violinists Pamela Frank, Jaime Laredo, Cho-Liang Lin, Anne Akiko Meyers, Kyoko Takezawa and Chee Yun, violist Michael Tree, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, bassist Gary Karr and pianist Leon Fleisher. He has been a frequent guest artist of the Boston Chamber Music Society, Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music International of Dallas, Da Camera of Houston, Camerata Pacifica of Los Angeles and Bargemusic in New York and performed at such festivals as Marlboro Music Festival, the Cape Cod, Tucson, Portland and Seattle Chamber Music Festivals, the Bard Festival, Bravo! Colorado, Music in the Vineyards and the Laurel Festival of the Arts, where he served as Artistic Director for ten years.

Mr. Tsang has toured the complete Beethoven works for cello and piano with pianist Anton Nel in, among other venues, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and Jordan Hall in Boston, with the latter performance recorded by WGBH and commercially released on the Artek label. Artek subsequently released Tsang’s performance of the Brahms Cello Sonatas and Hungarian Dances (transcribed by Tsang), also in Jordan Hall with Nel, in early 2010.

Mr. Tsang received his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.M.A. from Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot. His other cello teachers included Ardyth Alton, Luis Garcia-Renart, William Pleeth, Channing Robbins and Leonard Rose.

Mr. Tsang resides in Austin, Texas, where he is on the faculty at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin and enjoys chasing after his three young children: Bailey, Henry and Maia.
(2010)

Ning An, pianist
www.NingAnPiano.com

Pianist Ning An, is a rare pianist who has been hailed as a musician who "combines a flawless technique and mastery of the instrument with an expressive power that is fueled by profound and insightful understanding." (New York Concert Review) His top prizes from the Queen Elizabeth, Cleveland, and William Kapell Piano Competitions led to performances from Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Salle Verdi (Milan), to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. He has been invited to perform at numerous festivals, including the International Chopin Festival in Duszinski, Poland, the Gina Bachauer Piano Festival in Salt Lake City, New Hampshire's Monadnock Music Festival, the Bourglinster Festival in Luxembourg, and the Interlaken Music Festival in Switzerland. A passionate chamber musician as well as soloist, Mr. An has performed with groups such as the Ysaye, Daedalus, and Takacs Quartets as well as instrumentalists James Buswell, Paul Neubauer, Andres Diaz and Soovin Kim.

Since making his orchestral debut at the age of 16 with the Cleveland Orchestra, Mr. An has been a featured soloist with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Tivoli Symphony Orchestra, the Belgian National Symphony, the Flemish Radio Symphony, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and the Taipei Symphony Orchestra under the batons of conductors such as Vladimir Fedosseyev, Jorg-Peter Weigle, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, etc. Mr. An was also a featured soloist during the 100th Anniversary American Tour made by the Warsaw Philharmonic and Maestro Kazmierz Kord.

Ning An has also been a top prize winner of the Paloma O’Shea Santander Competition, the Tivoli International Piano Competition, the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition and the Alfred Cortot Prize winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition.

Mr. An began his musical studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Olga Radosavljevich and Sergei Babayan. Subsequently, Mr. An continued his studies under the tutelage of Russell Sherman at the New England Conservatory of Music.

A frequent guest lecturer himself, Mr. An has given master classes throughout the United States and Asia. Since 2005, Mr. An has served as the Artist in Residence at Lee University, Tennessee. He is a Steinway Artist.
(2010)


▼Event photos by staff of Boston Musical Intelligencer :


press release
新聞稿

琴心集- 弦鍵上的天籟/胡乃元、章雨亭、安寧音樂會後記

今年二月十二日星期六晚八時, 在波士頓經過接二連三的大雪後首次回暖放晴, 四百多位音樂愛好者聚集在新英格蘭音樂學院喬登廳
(NEC’s Jordan Hall), 聆賞由中華表演藝術基金會主辦, 三位屢獲大獎的華裔音樂家;小提琴家胡乃元、大提琴家章雨亭, 鋼琴家安寧, 所聯合演出"琴心集 : 弦鍵上的天籟" 。當天有波 士頓環球報(Boston Globe) 的樂評主筆、Boston Musical Intelligencer及中美音樂界知名人士及教師多人到場, 演出精采,  深受好評 。

這三位都是在美國受教育, 獲得多項國際大賽的輝煌大獎, 集伊莉莎白女皇音樂大賽, 柴可夫司基大提琴大賽,
William Keppel 及許多大賽的最高榮譽 。但當天波士頓環球報 及Boston Musical Intelligencer樂評主筆都以『三位還不是家喻戶曉的音樂家』來稱呼 。但對他們精采演出都毫無保留的讚美 。

當天演出曲目開始是安寧鋼琴獨奏
Rachmaninoff 的Corelli變奏曲 。 安寧畢業於紐英倫音樂學院, 是Russell Sherman指導下得到最難得的藝術家文憑 。波士頓環球報稱他 "所演奏的變奏曲, 均衡平穩, 溫文爾雅引人入勝 。音樂技巧表現的既強有力道又有節制, 含蓄有教養又嚴謹規格, 整曲貫穿之間恰到好處 。"Boston Musical Intelligencer 對其表現形容為"迷人的演出 。"

緊接著是胡乃元及章雨亭的小提琴和大提琴, 彈奏
Kodaly的二重奏 。胡乃元曾獲得全世界最受肯定的「比利時伊莉莎白女皇音樂大賽」小提琴第一名, 大提琴家章雨亭是被國際公認為當代最優秀的演奏家之一, 在樂界享有盛名 。他曾穫Avery FisherMEF成就獎 。兩位當天的合作是一獨特的組合 。  
 
Kodaly的二重奏寫於第一次世界大戰的開始 。整曲似乎反映了戰爭時黑暗的低落情緒 。Kodaly是一位民族音樂學者, 此二重奏裡使用的撥奏技術及整曲結構展現出東歐風味 。波士頓環球報樂評稱讚 "胡乃元沉穩的表情拉奏出飽滿自信的音色, 相對於章雨亭的溫情感人的展現, 兩位透過音樂的對話, 清晰傳達出作品所表達的思念與感傷, 勾畫出一幅荒涼孤獨的風景畫 。"聽眾也隨著樂曲投入其中, 整場鴉雀無聲 。觀眾表現讓樂評感到驚訝及激賞不已 。

最後,
Arensky 的三重奏使當晚達至最高潮 。澎湃浪漫的第一樂章和抒情的第三樂章, 三位展現出強有力且高昂的魅力, 將全場帶入昂揚的情緒, 也為當晚的演出畫上美麗句點 。其中一位樂評對於三人演出描述仔細, 特別對於現場聽眾高度集中力, 會場秩序, 及欣賞古典音樂的素養特加表揚 。

這三位華裔音樂家已是世界知名, 獲獎無數, 且到各處精彩演出 。但仍被稱之為"
Not Household Name , "不為家喻戶曉 。希望大家支持, 使更多華裔音樂家在世界古典音樂的殿堂上更上一層 。中華表演藝術基金會主辦下一場音樂會是四月9日(盲人鋼琴家Nobuyuki Tsujii 2009 范克萊本Van Cliburn大賽金獎) 精彩的音樂會 。

    

音 樂會門票分為$50 (貴賓保留區、可預先指定座位)及$30(不對號自由入座)兩種 , 學生票$15 (不對號自由座區)  。六歲以下兒 童請勿入場 。購票:喬登廳票房: 617-585-1260, 波士頓書局(前世界書局): 617-451-1309, 葉秀聰鋼琴學校: 617-542-9129 。網站購票: http://www.ChinesePerformingArts.net 無手續費 。
$50: VIP Reserved Seats
$30: open seating at non-VIP section
$15: student open seating at non-VIP section
Children under 6 not admitted.

提 供100張免費學生票 (14歲以上 , 每人一張) 請上 贈票網頁 索票  。
100 free student tickets available at www.ChinesePerformingArts.net only (1 per request for age 14 and up)
 

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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts
updated 2011