Student
Performances and Competitions
Sining Liu
Sining Liu performing at a Weill Recital Hall concert in May 2013, sponsored by the Piano Teachers Congress of New York, following competitive auditions.
Erica Guo
Dame Myra Hess Concerts
Chicago Cultural Center
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 12:15 p.m.
Sarah Crocker Vonsattel, violin
Ani Kalayjian, cello
Sofya Melikyan, piano
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Program:
Adagio Adagio for Violin, Cello, and Piano (5')
Hans Werner Henze (1926 – 2012)
Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87 for Violin, Cello, and Piano (30')
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante con moto
III. Scherzo: Presto
IV. Finale: Allegro giocoso
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Directions:
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Praised for their "powerful" and "heartfelt" interpretations of classical and ethnic repertoire, Sima Trio is quickly becoming one of the leading, young trios of its generation. Connected by their Armenian heritage, the members of this NY based ensemble have studied with such teachers as Dorothy Delay, Peter Oundjian, Joaquin Soriano, Solomon Mikowksy, Timothy Eddy, and Ralph Kirshbaum at Juilliard, Yale, Real Conservatorio Superior de Madrid, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes, and the Royal Northern College of Music respectively. Winners of international competitions,violinist SAMI MERDINIAN, cellist ANI KALAYJIAN, and pianist SOFYA MELIKYAN, are highly sought after soloists and chamber musicians who have performed at such major venues as Carnegie Hall, Teatro Colon, Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Concertgebauw, Seoul Arts Center, Shanghai Theatre, Salle Cortot, La Jolla Sherwood auditorium, Orange County Performing Arts Center, and Yerevan Philharmonic Hall, among others.
Sima Trio's group mission is to bring music to life, engage and educate communities, and create cross-cultural awareness. Performing as much as they can in diverse settings, they strive to bring music to life for people. Their musical focus is on exploring the abundant standard and forgotten repertoire, discovering new and old works from their unique cultural backgrounds and worldwide travels, and contributing to the repertoire by commissioning new trio works. As modern musicians, they each are passionate and dedicated to community engagement and education. These two are easily intertwined in the form of university or school residences, master classes, lessons, and community outreach concerts.
Sima Trio has recently won the second prize at J.C. Arriaga chamber music competition, as well as performed at Rutgers Zimmerli Arts Museum in New Brunswick, St. Gregory church in White Plains, Dweck Center in New York, Avalon Theater in Easton, Parish Hall in Wye Mills, and Ridotto series in Huntington, NY. Upcoming engagements include a South American tour in Frutillar, Chile, Cordoba & Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as recitals at the Little Rock Chamber Music Society, Fortuna Music Club and Fort Bragg Arts Center in California, Saugerties ProMusica Series in NY, Treetops Chamber Society, Weill Recital Hall, Freeport and Huntington Libraries, Myra Hess Series in Chicago, and a tour of Florida including performances at the Broward Center.
THURSDAY - MAY 30, 2013
SECCION: NOTICIAS DE CUBA
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HEADLINE: Pianistas estrellas realizan conciertos en La Habana
Por ANNET RIOS
Agencia EFE
LA HABANA - Un grupo de 12 pianistas estrellas que ha pasado en los ultimos anos por la "Manhattan School of Music" (MSM) de Nueva York protagonizan estos dias conciertos de lujo en La Habana y cumplen el sueno de su profesor cubano, Salomon Mikowsky, de mostrar en la isla su "obra" de cinco decadas.
La lista incluye nombres como el de la aclamada estadounidense Simonne Dinnerstein, el espanol Gustavo Diaz-Jerez, la bielorrusa Alexandra Beliakovich o la china Wenqiao Jiang, que fue la encargada de abrir el I Encuentro de Jovenes Pianistas que comenzo el 25 de mayo y cerrara el 9 de junio tras 16 conciertos unicos y un ambicioso repertorio con integrales de obras universales.
Mikowsky, reconocido como uno de los ma s importantes pedagogos de piano del mundo, convoco a algunos de los alumnos que han pasado por su estudio para concretar este proyecto artistico que tiene mucho de reencuentro personal con el pais donde nacio en 1936.
Mikowsky salio de Cuba en 1955 por una beca en la Juilliard School de Nueva York, donde reside desde entonces.
"He tenido alumnos por ma s de 50 anos, muchos de ellos se han distinguido, pero lo que yo siento es que no he compartido con mi patria el producto de mi trabajo", afirmo Mikowsky, catedra tico de la MSM desde 1969.
Al margen de los llamados "intercambios culturales" que han tenido lugar entre Estados Unidos y Cuba en los ultimos meses, el evento fue impulsado con el esfuerzo personal de Mikowsky junto a la Oficina del Historiador de La Habana que dirige Eusebio Leal.
"Ha sido una ilusion, al final de mi vida profesional, venir con ellos a Cuba, que se mezclen con la escuela pianistica cubana, que se escuchen unos a los otros y que aprendamos unos de los otros", manifesto Mikowsky.
Segun resalta, sus clases en la MSM incluyen repertorio de la isla y sus alumnos han tocado en Corea, Rusia, Ucrania o Japon piezas de cla sicos cubanos como Ignacio Cervantes y Ernesto Lecuona. De hecho, la china Jiang, de solo 15 anos, sorprendio esta semana al publico de La Habana con la interpretacion de las 40 danzas de Cervantes, considerado el autor ma s influyente del siglo XIX en Cuba.
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SALA IGNACIO CERVANTES
GALA INAUGURAL y CONCIERTO
Pianista: Wenqiao JIANG (China)
Domingo 26 de mayo, 6:00 PM
PRESENTACIÓN DE LIBRO: Ignacio Cervantes y la Danza en Cuba de Salomón Gadles Mikowsky publicado por Ediciones Bolońa.
CONCIERTO
Pianistas: Wenqiao JIANG (China) y Willanny DARIAS MARTÍNEZ (Cuba)
BASÍLICA MENOR DEL CONVENTO DE SAN FRANCISCO DE ASÍS
Pianista: Alexandra BELIAKOVICH (Belorusia)
PROGRAMA
De Claude DEBUSSY: Estampes, L. 100
De Franz LISZT: Después de una lectura de Dante: Fantasía casi Sonata
De Serguéi PROKÓFIEFF: Sonata No. 4 en Do menor, Op. 29
De Sergei RACHMANINOFF: Polka de W. R.
De Igor STRAWINSKY: Suite del ballet « El pájaro de fuego» (transcripción de Guido AGOSTI)
Martes 28 de mayo, 6:00 PM
Pianista: Gustavo DÍAZ-JEREZ (Espańa)
PROGRAMA:
De Isaac ALBÉNIZ: Suite Iberia. Doce impresiones para piano. Cuaderno I: Evocación, El Puerto, El Corpus Christi en Sevilla / Cuaderno IV: Málaga, Jerez, Eritańa
Cuaderno II: Rondeńa, Almería, Triana / Cuaderno III: Albaicín, Polo, Lavapiés
Miércoles 29 de mayo, 6:00 PM
Pianista: Simone DINNERSTEIN (Estados Unidos)
PROGRAMA
De Johann Sebastian BACH: “Suite Francesa no. 5 en sol mayor, BWV 816” / “Aria y 30 variaciones, BWV 988”
Jueves 30 de mayo, 6:00 PM
Pianista:Khowoon KIM (Corea del Sur)
PROGRMA
De Giacomo ROSSINI: Obertura de la ópera Guillermo Tell
De William BOLCOM: Tres estudios: 5, 6 y 8 (de "Doce nuevos estudios")
De Enrique GRANADOS: El Fandango del Candil (de «Goyescas»)
De Modest MÚSORGSKI: Cuadros de una Exposición
Viernes 31 de mayo, 6:00 PM
Pianista:Yuan SHENG (China)
PROGRAMA
De Frédéric CHOPIN: “Preludio en Do sostenido menor, Op. 45” y “Veinticuatro preludios, Op. 28”
De Claude DEBUSSY: Suite Bergamasque
De Ernesto LECUONA: “Córdoba” y “Ahí viene el chino”, (En homenaje al 50 aniversario del fallecimiento del compositor)
De Moritz MOSZKOWSKI: “Guitarra, Op.45, No.2” y “Capricho espańol, Op.37”
Sábado 1 de junio de 2013, 6:00 PM
Pianista: Alexandre MOUTOUZKINE (Rusia)
PROGRAMA
De John CORIGLIANO: Estudio-Fantasía
De Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Sonata No.21 en do mayor, Op.53
De Juan PIŃERA: Estudio de concierto en Fa Mayor (en memoria de la maestra Margot Rojas)
De Frédéric CHOPIN: Doce estudios, Op.25
Domingo 2 de junio, 6:00 PM
Pianista: Willanny DARIAS MARTÍNEZ (Cuba)
PROGRAMA
De Johann Sebastian BACH: Tocata en mi menor, BWV 914
De Johannes BRAHMS: Seis piezas para piano, Op.118
De Béla BARTÓK: Suite, Op.14
De Olivier MESSIAEN: Regard de Hauteurs: Vif (No.8 de los "Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus")
De George PERLE: Estudio No. 5 (de los «Seis nuevos estudios»)
De Tania LEÓN: Momentum
De Frédéric CHOPIN: Polonesa-Fantasía, Op.61
Lunes 3 de junio, 6:00 PM
Pianista: Ruiqi FANG (China)
PROGRAMA
De Johann Sebastian BACH: Preludio para órgano en sol menor (Transcripción de Alexander Siloti)
De Franz SCHUBERT: Sonata en la mayor, Op. Póstuma, D. 959
De Isaac ALBÉNIZ: Navarra
De Robert SCHUMANN: Carnaval, Op.9
Martes 4 de junio, 6:00 PM
Pianista: Daniel RODRIGUEZ (Cuba)
PROGRAMA
De Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Sonata Op. 7 en Mi bemol Mayor
De Johann Sebastian BACH: Partita Nş 2 BWV 826 en Do menor.
De Frédéric CHOPIN: Polonesa Op. 44 en Fa # menor.
De Béla BARTÓK: 3 Burlescas Op. 8c
Miércoles 5 de junio, 6:00 PM
Pianista: Wael FAROUK (Egipto)
PROGRAMA
De Sergei RACHMANINOFF: “Tres estudios”, “Variaciones sobre un tema de Corelli, Op.42”, “Cuatro preludios” y “Sonata No.2 en si-bemol menor, Op.36 (versión revisada, 1931)”
Jueves 6 de junio, 6:00 PM
Pianista: Liana FERNÁNDEZ (Cuba)
PROGRAMA
De Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Sonata en Sol Mayor, K 283
De Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Sonata en Mib. Mayor, Op.31 no.3
De Ernán LÓPEZ-NUSSA: “Voile de Mariée” y “Nińa con violín”
De José Maria VITIER: “Preludio de Sofía” y “Tarde en la Habana”
De Luis Antonio CALVO: “Intermezzo No. 2 «Lejano azul» y «Blanquita» De Alberto Evaristo GINASTERA: “El viejo boyero”, “La moza donosa” y “El gaucho matrero”
De Carlos GUASTAVINO: Se equivocó la paloma
De “Frank FERNÁNDEZ: Vals joropo
Viernes 7 de junio, 6:00 PM
Pianista: Tatiana TESSMAN (Rusia)
PROGRAMA
De Karol SZYMANOWSKI: Tres mazurkas del Op.50
De Frédéric CHOPIN: “Trés Mazurkas, Op.50” y “Fantasie, Op.49”
De Sergei PROKOFIEFF: Sonata no. 8 en si-bemol mayor, Op.84
Sábado 8 de junio, 6:00 PM
Pianista: Youngho KIM (Corea del sur)
PROGRAMA
De Frédéric CHOPIN: “Valse en la-bemol mayor, Op.42”, “Berceuse, Op.57” y “Sonata no. 2 en si-bemol menor, Op.35”.
De Franz LISZT: Sonata en si menor
Domingo 9 de junio, 6:00 PM
GALA DE CLAUSURA Y CONCIERTO
Pianistas: Aldo LÓPEZ-GAVILÁN y Harold LÓPEZ-NUSSA (Cuba)
PROGRAMA
De Modest MÚSORGSKI: Cuadros de una Exposición. Intérprete, Aldo LÓPEZ-GAVILÁN
De Harold LÓPEZ-NUSSA: Herencia. Intérprete, Aldo LÓPEZ-GAVILÁN
De Alberto GINASTERA: Sonata No 1. Intérprete, Harold LÓPEZ-NUSSA
De Aldo LÓPEZ-GAVILÁN: Shona. Intérprete, Harold LÓPEZ-NUSSA
De Francis POULENC: Sonata a cuatro manos. Intérpretes, Aldo LÓPEZ-GAVILÁN y Harold LÓPEZ-NUSSA
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Jenny Chai  Dear friends and music lovers in SH, I'd like to invite you to my solo piano concert at the SH Oriental Arts Center on 7/25.I'll be playing two major Schumann works plus a little bit of contemporary works. It'll be a modern interpretation of Clara Schumann, the great female contemporary pianist of 19th Century. I've attached the poster and a link from SmartShanghai and the concert hall. http://en.shoac.com.cn/PlayInfo.asp?PlayID=3164 http://www.smartshanghai.com/smartticket/jenny_q_chai Jenny Q Chai pairs John Cage and Nils VigelandDear Friends, I welcome to watch this special feature, made by WWFM Classical Music Station, where I talk about pairing music and stories of Nils Vigeland and John Cage, with my performances of their pieces at my last LPR performance. Happy Holidays! Jenny Q Chai |
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 Nov 4: Jenny Q Chai's Poisson Rouge Debut
Following her recent, critically acclaimed New York Carnegie Hall debut, pianist Jenny Q Chai (LISTEN TO HER SOUNDCLOUD SAMPLER), has been selected to appear at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge. The concert will take place on Sunday, November 4 at 7:30pm (doors at 6:30pm). Ms. Chai will perform works by Satie, Schoenberg, Stockhausen, Scarlatti, Stroppa, and more. Le Poisson Rougea is located at 158 Bleecker Street in New York City. And yes, LPR is hoping to have power restored before this Sunday, so help us celebrate with this performance MORE. |
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Russian pianist Kirill Gerstein 1st Prize (Gold Medal) winner of the Arthur Rubinstein International Master competition in Tel-Aviv |
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 Chinese student Bing Han with conductor Kurt Mazur after a performance of Ravel's L.H. Concerto |
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 Kookhee Hong and Yu Zhang with Maestro David Gilbert after a performance of the Gershwin Concerto in F and the Bartok Concerto No. 3 with the Tenerife Symphony, Spain |
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 Alexander Moutouzkine (Russia) and Kookhee Hong (Korea) share the 2nd prize at the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in Barcelona, Spain |
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 Chinese pianist Yuan Sheng, 1st prize winner of the Ignacio Cervantes International Piano Competition after a performance of the Chopin Concerto No. 1 with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, Havana, Cuba |
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SIMA Trio
Sami Merdinian, violin Ani Kalayjian, cello Sofya Melikyan, piano Armenian reporter newspaper "One of the greatest trios of their generation" Andres Diaz "...The Sima Trio's reading of Mozart's G minor Piano Quartet, with illustrious violist Kim Kashkashian, was wonderfully sonorous and surpassingly lyrical, even in the dramatic opening Allegro..." James Leonard, Ann Arbor Observer "The Sima Trio is a wonderfully energetic, intensely musical group of young musicians that define the words "Play from your hearts". They do that and more!" Ani Kavafian |
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 (left to right) Solomon Mikowsky, Yungwook Yoo (1st Prize Santander Competition), Eva Rubinstein (daughter of Arthur Rubinstein), Sergiu Comissiona (Romanian Conductor), after the performance of the Brahms 2nd Piano Concert with the Manhattan Symphony, 2004 |
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 Weiwei Zhai performing The Scriabin Piano Concerto with The MSM Symphony conducted by Phillip Entremont, 2012 |
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