Better than Ever: The 23rd Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill

Boston, July 9, 2014, — The 23rd Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill will be held from July 24 to August 17 this year. According to Foundation for Chinese Performance Arts, this year’s music festival will feature star-studded lineup of musicians for concerts and master classes.

Picture of students and teachers of the 22nd Annual Music Festival at Walnut Hill in August 2013(file photo).

 Concerts and Master Classes of the 23rd Annual Music Festival 

at Walnut Hill, July 24 - August 17, 2014

Location:

Except Saturday, 8/2/2014 at The Center for Arts in Natick (14 Summer St. Natick, ) and Saturday, 8/16/2014 at Harvard Sanders Theatre (45 Quincy St. Cambridge, )all events are held at Walnut Hill School (12 Highland St. Natick www.WalnutHillArts.org )

Tickets: $5 donation at door, no advance reservation needed.   Program: Updated details are posted atwww.ChinesePerformingArts.net  

1, Saturday, 7/26, 7:30 pm Yehudi Wyner: Lecture Demonstration "New Music for Piano by Yehudi Wyner"      2, Monday, 7/28, 7:30 pm Bruce Brubaker piano master class      3, Tuesday, 7/29, 7:30 pm Tema Blackstone: Lecture "This is YOU in the 21^stCentury - A Time of Wonder"     4, Wednesday, 7/30, 2 pm Hung-Kuan Chen 陳宏寬 piano master class    5, Thursday, 7/31, 1 pm Vivian Weilerstein piano master class    6, Thursday, 7/31, 3:30 pm Donald Weilerstein violin master class    7, Thursday, 7/31, 7:30 pm Yinfei Wang王寅飛, piano recital

 

Program:

Scarlatti:

Sonata in B minor, K. 87

Sonata in D major, K. 430

Sonata in D minor, K. 9

Schumann: Toccata in C major, Op. 7

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.28 in A major, Op. 101

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30

Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit

Ondine

Le Gibet

Scarbo

 

                                                                

 

8,  Friday, 8/1, 7:30 pm

Hung-Kuan Chen陳宏寬  piano recital

 

Program:

Mozart:

Fragment of a Suite, KV. 399

A little Gigue, KV. 574

Rondo in A minor, KV. 511

Sonata in A minor, KV. 310

Schubert Sonata in C minor, D. 958 

  9, Saturday, 8/2, 7:30 pm at The Center for Arts in Natick, 14 Summer St. Natick Nai-Yuan Hu 胡乃元, violin Scott Lee 李捷琦, viola Bion Tsang 章雨亭, cello Meng-Chieh Liu 劉孟捷, piano   Program:

Mozart Divertimento in E flat, K. 563, for String Trio

Dvořák Quartet in E flat, Op. 87, for Piano Quartet

        10, Sunday, 8/3, 7:30 pm Meng-Chieh Liu劉孟捷, piano recital   

11, Monday, 8/4, 1 pm Concerto Competition: Saint-Saëns: Concerto No. 2 in G minor 6 Finalists Orchestra reduction played by Jannie Lo and Peter Fang Jury (in alphabetical order) Pi-Hsien Chen, Veronica Jochum , Meng-Chieh Liu, A. Ramón Rivera, and Channing Yu  

   12, Monday, 8/4, 7:30 pm    

Nicholas Kitchen Lecture Demonstration "Expressive Strokes: working directly from Beethoven's manuscripts: Violin Sonata No. 10, Op. 96"

   13, Tuesday, 8/5, 7:30 pm The Rising Stars Concert 1      14, Wednesday, 8/6, 2 pm Wha Kyung Byun piano master class     

  

         15, Thursday, 8/7, 7:30 pm The Rising Stars Concert 2

 

   16, Friday, 8/8, 7:30 pm George Li piano recital Program: Tchaikovsky (TBA) Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme of Corelli, op. 42 Ravel La Valse        17, Saturday, 8/9, 7:30 pm Faculty concert Program: TBA 18, Sunday, 8/10, 2 pm Russell Sherman piano master class

19, Monday, 8/11, 7:30 pm Victor Rosenbaum piano master class 20, Tuesday, 8/12, 7:30 pm     Pi-Hsien Chen 陳必先 Piano Recital program:     Alban Berg Sonata op.1 Scarlatti Four Sonatas (TBA) Beethoven Six Bagatellen, op.126 Schubert Sonata in D major, D.850     

   21, Wednesday, 8/13, 2 pm Laurence Lesser cello master class      22, Wednesday, 8/13, 7:30 pm Faculty-Student Joint Concert 23, Friday, 8/15, 2 pm Gala concert 1   24, Saturday, 8/16, 2 pm Gala concert 2 25, Saturday, 8/16, 8 pm

Concerto Concert with Mercury Symphony Orchestra at Harvard Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St. Cambridge Channing Yu, Conductor and Music Director