August 14, 2005
Sunday, 8 PM
Julianna Peiling Lin, viola
Nancheng Chen, cello
Jannie Lo, piano

Program

J.S. Bach: Cello Suite No.6
Allemande
Courante
Gavotte
Gigue

Julianna Peiling Lin, viola

Samuel Barber: Concerto for violincello and orchestra, Op.22
Allegro moderato

Nancheng Chen, cello
Hsiao-Ling Lin, collaborate piano

Intermission

Schubert: Sonata in A major, D 959
Allegro

Leon Kirchner: 5 Pieces

Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux Op. 39, Nos. 1, 3, and 4

Jannie Lo, piano

Violist Julianna Peiling Lin from Taiwan was the first prize winner of both the 1995 and 1996 Taipei viola competitions. She was also the third prize winner of the 1997 Vienna Piano Competition in Taiwan. An alumni of the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts’ 9th Annual Music Festival, she was selected as the soloist that year performing the Beethoven 5th piano concerto with the Longwood Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Francisco Noya. After the summer music festival, she continued her studies at Walnut Hill School and became the principal violist of the New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra under Mr. Benjamin Zander. As a member of Walnut Hill School’s chamber music group, she performed at the Purcell High School and the Royal Academy in England. She was also chosen to play for Mr. Yo Yo Ma at his master class at Walnut Hill School. Miss Lin is a rising senior at Juilliard School of Music study with renowned violist Ms. Hsin-Yun Huang.

Cellist Nancheng Chen, is a rising senior at Walnut Hill School study under renowned cellist Mr. Mark Churchill. A Native of Taiwan, Nancheng Chen came to United States at the age of 12 and attended Idyllwild Arts Academy before entering Walnut Hill School. While he was in Taiwan, he received the first prize of the 1999 Taichung City Competitions for both cello and piano, and the third prize of the 1999 Taiwan National Cello Competition, as well as the finalist of the 1999 Taiwan National Piano Competition. He was also the first prize winner of the 2004 High School Division of the Hsin Tian Temple Cello Competition. Here in Boston, Mr. Chen was award the first prize of the 2005 Quincy Orchestra Concerto Competition, the third prize of the 2004 New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra concerto competition where he is an orchestra member under Mr. Benjamin Zander. He was also awarded with an honorable mention at the 2004 Brockton Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Concerto Competition and was the winner of the 2003 Metro-West Symphony Orchestra concerto competition.

Pianist Jannie Lo began to learn the piano at the age of three. A sophomore at Peabody Conservatory of John Hopkins University, she currently studies with Boris Slutsky. Her past principal teachers include Rui-Xing Li and Mack McCray. She has received first prizes from the Ross McKee Piano Foundation, the Pacific Musical Society, the San Francisco Young Pianists Competition, the Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition. From 2001-2003, she was keyboardist of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. She appeared in San Francisco Noontime Concerts since the age of ten, and performed with the Fremont Symphony Orchestra, and at the Junior Bach Festival. In New York City, she appeared in a “Young Virtuosos” Gala Concert in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. In 2004, she was selected and attended the TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute in Forth Worth, TX. She has been coached by Leon Fleisher, Vladimir Feltsman, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jerome Lowenthal, and the Peabody Trio.


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