August 22, 2005
Monday, 3:00 PM
Piano Master Class
Mr. Russell Sherman

Program

Beethoven: Sonata Op. 27, No. 1
David Ta-Wei Tsai, piano

Schubert: Piano Sonata D.959 in A major
Allegro
Andantino
Scherzo - Allegro vivace
Rando – Allegretto

Jannie Lo, piano

Liszt: Mephisto Waltz
Grace Shu-Hui Yang, piano

Mr. Russell Sherman

An active recitalist internationally, pianist Russell Sherman celebrated his 75th birthday year and the 2000-2001 season with critically and publicly acclaimed engagements highlighted by performances at New York's Alice Tully Hall, Sarasota's Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a concert series at Boston's Jordan Hall, and concerts in Spain and Korea. During the 2001-2002 season, his Boston performances have included appearances with the Pro Arte Orchestra and on the Celebrity Series In the spring of 2002, Mr. Sherman repeated his all Beethoven recital and performed Liszt's Transcendental Études at the University of Texas at Austin, before embarking on a recital tour in Australia. His recording with Monadnock Music of the Beethoven Piano Concertos was released late in 2001 by GM, which has also released his recordings of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas. He has also recorded on the Albany label. He has performed with major orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony. Abroad, Mr. Sherman has played in the major cities of Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Korea, Russia and South America. In recital, Russell Sherman has appeared on Carnegie Hall's Keyboard Virtuosos Series, California's Ambassador Foundation Series, the Distinguished Artists series at New York's Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd St. Y, the Bank of Boston Celebrity Series, at Columbia University's Miller Theatre, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Chicago's Orchestra Hall. He has also appeared at the Ravinia Festival, the Hollywood Bowl and the Mostly Mozart Festival. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and is currently a Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at the New England Conservatory.

Mr. David Ta-Wei Tsai from Taiwan is a rising junior at Walnut Hill School majoring in piano under Ms. Sylvia Chambless. He was the 2nd prize winner of the 2005 Steinway Society of Massachusetts Piano Competition, and the first prize winner of the 2000 Taiwan National Yamaha Piano Competition.

Miss 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.

Miss Grace Shu-Hui Yang is a freshman at National Taiwan Normal University majoring in piano and minor in violin. She was the top prizes winner of the 2001 Taipei City Piano Competition, and the 2000 Chang-Hua City Piano Competition in Taiwan. She was chosen to play at the master class by Professor Boris Berman of Yale University in 2005. Miss Yang was selected as the soloist this year, together with Mr. Ita Wang, to perform with Longwood Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Jonathan McPhee.


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