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 21stCentury – 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 