Concert 6
Burnes Hall
7:30 pm
Han Chen
陳涵,
piano
~Program~
Steven Stucky (1949-2016)
Sonata for Piano
(2014)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Sonata No.
19 in C-minor, D. 958
I.
Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Menuetto
IV. Allegro
~Intermission~
Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Piano Sonata No. 8
in B-flat major, Op. 84
I.
Andante dolce
II. Andante sognando
III. Vivace
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Han Chen
陳涵, pianist
www.anchenpiano.com
Hailed
by the New York Times as a pianist with "a graceful touch... rhythmic
precision... hypnotic charm” (2012) and "sure, subtle touch," (2014) Han
Chen is a distinctive artist whose credentials at a young age already
include important prizes in competitions of traditional music as well as
increasing respect in the avant-garde.
Mr. Chen’s debut CD with Naxos Records, which consists of all-Liszt
operatic transcriptions, was released in January 2016 as the first prize
winner of the 6th China International Piano Competition. Gramophone
complimented Mr. Chen’s “brilliant performance” in the CD as
“impressively commanding and authoritative.” The website Classics Today
also praised for his “assured, elegant and totally effortless technique”
by scoring 10 out of 10 in both artistic quality and sound quality.
International Piano magazine (UK) described Mr. Chen’s performance in
the competition as “[Chen] displayed extraordinary strength, talent and
flair.” In addition to the recent champion, he was the winner of the
International Russian Music Piano Competition, the Hong Kong
International Piano Competition, the Jinqiao National Piano competition
in China, among others. Mr. Chen was also awarded the Mieczyslaw Munz
Piano Scholarship and 26th Chimei Art Prize Piano Category.
As a soloist, Mr. Chen has appeared with many orchestras, including Hong
Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (under Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy), the
Aspen Music Festival Brass Ensemble, the China Symphony Orchestra, Macao
Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, Sendai
Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Conservatory Middle School Orchestra,
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, and Xiamen National Orchestra.
Being an enthusiastic advocate for modern music, Mr. Chen actively
performs both 20th-century classics and works by emerging composers. His
close collaboration with the Juilliard modern music ensemble AXIOM led
him to the performance of music by composers such as Pierre Boulez,
Toshio Hosokawa, Gyorgy Kurtag, Magnus Lindberg, Steve Reich, Charles
Wuorinen. He was appointed as one of the soloists in John Adam’s Pianola
Music in the 2012-2013 season, the soloist in the John Cage’s Concerto
for Prepared Piano in the 2014-2015 season, and now on the roster of the
New York-based contemporary music group Ensemble Échappé.
As a recitalist, Mr. Chen programs music with highly creative themes and
strong belief in promoting living composers. In the summer of 2016, he
created an all-transcription program to honor the great technical aspect
of the piano as a musical instrument. He celebrated John Cage’s
centennial birthday in 2012 by performing his complete Sonatas and
Interludes. His all-New-York-based composer program in the new music
performance venue, Spectrum, was on the critic’s pick of Time Out New
York magazine and the website I Care If You Listen. In the summer of
2014, he attended the Lucern Festival Academy founded by Pierre Boulez,
and worked with conductors such as Simon Rattle, Matthias Pintscher and
Heinz Holliger. At the same time, he himself is also an avid composer,
studying with professor Philip Lasser. His works have been performed in
National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, Taiwan Classical Music
Society, Paul Hall in Juilliard, Klaiverhaus / Unity Church, Greenwich
House Music School, Aspen Chapel, Altered Stages 2, The Dolphin Cafe, to
name a few.
Native of Taichung, Taiwan, Mr. Chen attended the Taichung Municipal
Guang Fu Elementary School and later on the Shanghai Conservatory
Elementary & Middle School. His teachers included Meng-hua Wu, Tsuifong
Hung, Siyi Wu, Christopher Zhong and Kuan-wen Wang. After his study in
Shanghai, he moved to New York and received his accelerated Bachelor’s
and Master’s Degree of Music at The Juilliard School with professor
Yoheved Kaplinsky under the C/Kaplan Piano Scholarship, Susan W. Rose
Piano Fellowship and Van Cliburn Alumni Scholarship. He has also worked
with Thomas Ades, Jonathan Biss, Misha Dichter, Leon Fleisher, Richard
Goode, Gilbert Kalish, Robert Levin, Jerome Lowenthal, Robert McDonald,
Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Peter Oundjian and Arie Vardi in masterclasses.
He is now studying with Ms. Wha Kyung Byun in the New England
Conservatory.
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Thank you for
your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts |
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