SATURDAY,

Feb. 04, 2023, 8 PM

Kate Liu  ??, pianist

www.kateliu.com

Tickets:

$15 (age 7-13)?$30?$50?

Children under 6 NOT admitted

free student tickets (14yr and up) and complimentary for non-students

available

RESERVATION REQUIRED

Details:

http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/season/20230204/index.html

~ Program ~

Chopin:

Nocturne Op. 27, No. 1 in C# Minor

Mazurka Op. 50, No. 3 in C# Minor

Waltz Op. 70, No. 3 in D-flat Major

Waltz Op. 64, No. 3 in A-flat Major

Mazurka Op. 59, No. 3 in F# Minor

Waltz Op. 69, No. 2 in B Minor

Mazurka Op. 68, No. 4 in F Minor

Ballade No. 2, Op. 38 in F Major

Prokofiev:

Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-flat Major

Kate Liu ??, pianist

www.kateliu.com

Pianist Kate Liu gained international acclaim after winning the Bronze Medal and Best Mazurka Prize at the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland. She was also awarded the audience favorite prize voted by the Polish public on the Polish National Radio.

As a soloist, Kate has performed in many important venues, such as the Seoul Arts Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Severance Hall in Cleveland, La Maison Symphonique de Montréal, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Shanghai Concert Hall, Osaka Symphony Hall, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Hall, Phillip’s Collection, and others. She has collaborated with orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Polish Radio Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Daegu Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, and Evanston Symphony Orchestra. Her debut album of works by Chopin was released on the Fryderyk Chopin Institute label in 2016.

Born in Singapore, Kate began playing the piano when she was four years old and moved to the United States when she was eight. Early on in her career, she won 1st Prizes at the Third Asia-Pacific International Chopin Competition and the New York International Piano Competition. She received a Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and is currently pursuing graduate studies at The Juilliard School with Robert McDonald and Yoheved Kaplinsky. Her previous private studies were at the Music Institute of Chicago with Alan Chow, Micah Yui and Emilio del Rosario.

The 2023 Summer FREE Concerts @ NEC ???????(Aug 10 - 26)

will present 27 distinguish musicians, including the winner of 2023 Fou Ts'ong ??International Concerto Competition, and Mercury orchestra, Channing Yu conductor. 

15 CONCERTS: http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/summer/2023/index.html

- Thur. 08-10, Hao Rao ??, piano 

-Fri. 08-11, Leland Ko, cello, Adria Ye, piano

-Sat. 08-12, Xiaopei Xu ???, piano

-Sun. 08-13, Trio L'Eveque: Jean Huang ???, violin, Amy Galluzzo, Violin/Viola, Carol Ou???, cello

- Mon. 08-14, Hai-Ye Ni ???, cello, Xun Pan ??, piano

- Tu. 08-15, Luke Hsu, violin, Chih-Yi Chen ???, piano

- Wed. 08-16, Bruce Brubaker, piano,

-Thur. 08-17, Sahun Sam Hong, piano and Ensemble 132 with Maria Ioudenitch, violin, Stephanie Zyzak, violin, Luther Warren, viola, Zachary Mowitz, cello

- Fri. 08-18, Han Chen ??, piano

-Sat. 08-19, 1-5 pm: Fou Ts'ong ??International Concerto Competition Semifinal round (solo, 20 min each)

-Sun. 08-20, 7:30 - 11 pm: Fou Ts'ong ?? International Concerto Competition Final round

-Mon. 08-21, Yukiko Sekino, piano

-Tu. 08-22, Nan Ni ??, piano

- Wed. 08-23, Yutong Sun ???, piano

-Thur. 08-24, Quan Ge ??, violin, Cong Wu ??, viola, Nathan Vickery, cello, Yinfei Wang ???, piano 

-Fri. 08-25, Chelsea Guo ???, piano and soprano, Xiaopei Xu ???, collaborate pianist

-Sat. 08-26, Mercury Orchestra with concerto winner at Jordan Hall

All concerts 7:30 pm at NEC's Williams Hall, except August 26 at Jordan Hall. Free admission. Suggested donation $10 at door. Children under 6 NOT admitted. 

Saturday, May 6, 2023, 8 pm, NEC's Jordan Hall

Wu Man ?? , pipa

Hsin-Yun Huang

??? , viola

Fou Ts'ong ?? International Concerto Competition

Aug 19-20, 2023

(for age up to 35yr,

regardless of nationality)

Concerto 2023:

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 (1879 version, the 2nd edition.

NOTE: It is not the commonly performed third version from 1888 nor the first version from 1875.)

Application Deadline:

Friday, June 09, 2023

Summer FREE Concerts @ NEC 2023 

???????

August 10 to 26, 2023

Williams Hall + Jordan Hall

The 35th Season

2023-2024

NEC'S JORDAN HALL

Saturday, September 23, 2023, 8 pm, NEC's Jordan Hall

Autumn Water ?????

Jianbing Hu ???, sheng

Jian Bao ??, guanzi

Saturday, Jan 13, 2024, 8 pm, NEC's Jordan Hall:

Stella Chen, violin, 

Matthew Lipman, viola, Brannon Cho, cello

Friday, March 8, 2024,

8 pm, NEC's Jordan Hall:

Minsoo Sohn, piano

Saturday, April 13, 2024, 8 pm, NEC's Jordan Hall:

Kuok-Wei Liao ??? , piano