August 18, 1999
Wednesday, 7:30 PM
at the Hatch Shell at Boston’s Esplanade by the Charles River
Concert with the Longwood Symphony Summer Orchestra
Francisco Noya, Conductor


Program

Fingal's Cave from "The Hebrides," Op. 26 Felix Mendelssohn


Piano Concerto No. 5 in Eb Major, Op. 73 Ludwig von Beethoven
I. Allegro
Felice Kuan, piano

Intermission

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36 Ludwig von Beethoven
I. Adagio molto: Allegro con brio
II. Larghetto
III. Scherzo: Allegro
IV. Allegro Molto



Felice Kuan, an honors scholarship student at the Julliard Pre-College
Division, started piano studies with her mother at age three. At seven she
made her debut as piano soloist with the Westchester Conservatory Orchestra,
and at the age of eight she won First Prize in the International Young
Artist's Competition in Washington D.C. She has been a guest artist at the
Arcade Music Festival in Mine in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, and 1999, and she
has performed at the 1994 International Children's Festival in St.
Petersburg, Russia. She was featured as concerto soloist with the Empire
State Youth Orchestra in Troy Music Hall in 1998 and will be featured as
soloist with the Sage City Symphony in Vermont this October. Her piano
teachers include Oxana Yablonskaya, Elena Tatulyan, and Dr. Flora Lu Kuan.
Her recent piano awards include a scholarship to the 1998 Tanglewood Piano
Institute and first prizes in the 1998 Parillo Piano Competition sponsored by
the Schenectady Symphony, and the 1997 Lyman Concerto Competition sponsored
by the Empire State Youth Orchestra.

She is also principal cellist of the Empire State Youth Orchestra, which
performed in Carnegie Hall and at Tanglewood last season. She is a member of
the Arcade Youth Quartet, which will be featured on Maine Public Radio and in
the Arcade Music Festival this summer.

When Felice was 10, she won First Prize in the International Children's
Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia for her piano compositions. Currently she
studies composition with Ira Taxin at the Juilliard School. Her
Compositions, "Spring" for chorus, "Piano Trio", and her art songs have all
been premiered at the Juilliard School. Her "Piano Trio" will be featured at
the Arcade Music Festival in Maine this summer.

Felice Kuan was recently awarded as the first prize winner of the Concurs
International de Piano, at the Festival de Mśsica Cląssica in Puigcerdą,
Spain, in July 1999. Felice is one of the students at the 9th Annual Summer
Festival at Walnut Hill receiving lessons from Mr. Yin Cheng-Zong, Ms.
Pi-Hsien Chen, and Mr. Hung-Kuan Chen.


The Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO), now in its 16th concert season, is a
unique orchestra based in the greater Boston area whose dual mission is to
perform high-quality classical music concerts while benefiting other
nonprofit organization Under the direction of Artistic Director Francisco
Noya, the "Orchestra of Boston's Medical Community" is .composed primarily of
physicians, staff, and students representing eighteen major hospitals and
three medical schools.

The LSO began as the dream of some Harvard medical students to continue
pursuing their love of music even while pursuing their medical careers. The
dream quickly matured into a full-size symphonic orchestra based in Boston.
The orchestra performs regularly in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.
It performs an annual summer concert at the Hatch Memorial Shell on the
Esplanade. The Longwood Symphony has also appeared at Kresge Auditorium at
MIT, the New England Life Hall, and on the Harvard Medical School campus.

Over its sixteen-year tenure, the LSO's beneficiaries have included the
Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the Massachusetts Chapter of the March of Dimes,
the National SIDS Foundation, and the National Council for Spinal Cord
Injury, among many others. This year's concerts will touch the lives of
thousands of children as the LSO performs benefit concerts for the Boston
Private Industry Council's School-to-Careers programs and The Kids at St.
Jude's Hospital.

The LSO is proud to present rising young talent in addition to
well-established artists. This year, the LSO's soloists will be pianist Sean
Terrill, violinist Irina Muresanu, cellist Bion Tsang, and baritone S. Mark
Aliapoulios. The orchestra will also welcome back gust conductor Jonathan
McPhee.

For more information about the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, visit the LSO
website at www.longwoodsymphony.org, contact the LSO at P.O.Box 886,
Brookline, MA 02446 or call 617-332-7011.

Summer Music Festival