Composers on the Program:
Justin Weiss, Benjamin Martin, Gabriel Novak, Ryan Garvey, Darlene Castro Ortiz
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/238915-nexus-chamber-music
With conductor Tian Hui Ng
Program TBA.
Trio concert with violinist Michelle Ross and Caleb van der Swaagh.
Program
Kenji Bunch - Until Next Time (2010)
George Perle - Critical Moments (2001)
Kitty Xiao - New Work COMMISSION (2025)
Carolyn Chen - Oceans in Oceans (2014)
Marcos Balter - Violin Concerto (2016)
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center presents Sonata Dialogues, in which Cellist and Composer Daniel Hass presents his new Cello Sonata (world premiere) and Brahms’s Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor along with pianist Han Chen.
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Read more about Daniel Hass here: https://danielhass.ca
Recital at Scandinavia House presented by Piano on Park.
Program:
Chopin: Fantasie-Impromptu (1834)
Price: Fantasie Nègre in E minor (1929)
Lei Liang: Book of Time I (2023)*
(Intermission)
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (1837)
Scriabin: Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28 (1900)
*world premiere
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Recital presented by Music for Youth, along with its Emerging Artist.
Program:
Chopin: Fantasie-Impromptu, Op. 66
Florence Price: Fantasie Nègre in E minor
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
Scriabin: Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28
More details TBA
Program to include:
Stephen Andrew Taylor - Variations Ascending (2015) for piano solo
More details TBA
Performance of Vivian Fung’s Girl From the 905, with librettist Royce Vavrek, and soprano Andrea Núñez.
Recording sessions for an upcoming solo album. More info TBA.
To celebrate the 125th anniversary of Charles Ives's birth, Ensemble Échappé will play a salon concert of contemporary works composed by recent and past recipients of our Charles Ives Awards in Music. A reception will follow.
Please find more info on the website of American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Private Piano Recital at Shannondell at Valley Forge. Program TBA.
PROGRAM
Chopin: Two Nocturnes, Op. 27
No. 1 In C-sharp minor
No. 2 in D-flat major
Ligeti: Etudes
No. 2 Cordes à vide
No. 4 Fanfares
No. 10 Der Zauberlehrling
No. 11 En Suspens
No. 13 L’escalier du diable
(Intermission)
Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage, Italie, S. 161
No. 4 Sonetto 47 del Petrarca
No. 5 Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
No. 6 Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
No. 7 Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata
PROGRAM
Chopin: Two Nocturnes, Op. 27
No. 1 In C-sharp minor
No. 2 in D-flat major
Ligeti: Etudes
No. 2 Cordes à vide
No. 4 Fanfares
No. 10 Der Zauberlehrling
No. 11 En Suspens
No. 13 L’escalier du diable
(Intermission)
Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage, Italie, S. 161
No. 4 Sonetto 47 del Petrarca
No. 5 Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
No. 6 Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
No. 7 Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata
Conductor: Prof. Dan-Wen Wei
The Cross Strait Youth Pianists Festival Orchestra
Duo Rapide goes into the recording studio to capture recent highlights from their concerts…
Program to include: Chopin Etudes, Op. 25, Tania León Alma, and Boulez Sonatine for flute and piano.
Recital at The Lilac Recital Series.
Ligeti - Etude No. 15 “White on White”
Vivian Fung - White on Black (2023)
Ligeti - Etude No. 2 “Cordes à vide”
Jihyun Kim - A leaf falls, the water ripples… (2023)
Shiuan Chang - Digital Chants (2023)
Ligeti - Etude No. 10 “Der Zauberlehring”
Nina Young - it is within you that the ghosts acquire voices (2023)
Ligeti - Etude No. 6 “Automne à Varsovie”
(Intermission)
Liszt - Impromptu “Nocturne” S. 191
Liszt - 3 Petrarch Sonnets, S. 161 No. 4-6
Liszt - Funérailles, S. 173 No. 7
Han Chen appears in Program 1 (May 9) and Program 4 (May 11).
For the tickets and complete programs for the festival, please click more info.
This ambitious four-concert festival explores musical thought and inspirations from the City of Light. Conor Hanick, Lucy Fitz Gibbon, George Nickson and Samantha Bennett all take solo turns, conducted by Maurice Cohn and supported by a cast of 19 new music all stars.
Programs that involve Han Chen:
Program 1:
Unsuk Chin - Acrostic Wordplay
Kaija Saariaho - Graal Theatre
Program 4:
Boulez - Sur Incises
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The scintillating pianist Han Chen has been invited to participate in a four-day festival entitled “Parisian Refraction,” in Dallas April 23 – 28, 2024. He will join soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon for a rendition of Unsuk Chin’s “Acrostic Wordplay” and violinist Samantha Bennett in Kaija Saariaho’s Graal Theatre on Tuesday evening, April 23, 2024, 7:30 p.m. To close the festival, on Sunday, April 28, 2024, 7:30 p.m., he will be part of a performance of Pierre Boulez’ trailblazing Sur Incises, scored for three harps, three pianists and three percussionists, led by George Nickson, Principal Percussionist of the Dallas Symphony. These concerts take place at the Caruth Auditorium of the Owen Arts Center, SMU Meadows School of the Arts (6101 Bishop, Dallas, TX 75205).
“Parisian Refraction” showcases and highlights the similarities and global differences of musicians who have been changed by Paris. It’s an exploration of works and composers that embody the City of Light, have been commissioned by groups in Paris, or are deeply inspired and affected by the French capital. For complete Festival program information please visit Ensemble NEW SRQ’s website.
Duo Rapide: Roberta Michel, flute, and Han Chen, piano
Program:
Alice Shields: Meditation for Flute on a Sanskrit poem for solo flute (2024) *world premiere
Alba Potes: Ternura de las Grullas (Tenderness of Cranes) for solo flute (1995)
Erik Lundborg: Duettino, Fughetta & Scherzo for flute and piano (2012-2015) *New York premiere
(intermission)
Anthony Korf: Departures and Arrivals for solo piano (2024) *world premiere
Tania León: Alma for flute and piano (2007)
Pierre Boulez: Sonatine for flute and piano (1946)
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Octandre (1923)
Edgard Varèse
for chamber ensemble
Mother and Child (1943)
William Grant Still
for string orchestra
The Housatonic at Stockbridge (1921)
Charles Ives
for soprano and piano
Three Places in New England (1903-1929)
Charles Ives
for chamber orchestra
-intermission-
Hoarding Behaviors (2022-2023) WORLD PREMIERE
Sang Song
for soprano and 11 instruments
Music by Roscoe Mitchell, Nicole Mitchell, Eve Beglarian, and David Ludwig. For more details, please visit: https://artsandletters.org
Han is joining a group of Ursula’ friends to perform at Ursula’s 80th birthday concert at Merkin Hall. Han will perform Colon Nancarrow’s Two Canons for Ursula.
Recording session for Daniel Hass’s Piano Quartet “Been There Once Before” at the Samurai Hotel with Rannveig Marta Sarc, Brian Hong, and Daniel Hass.
Ligeti 100
Concert presented by ensembleSRQ in Sarasota, FL
Program to include Ligeti Études and Horn Trio.
Han has hosted two private concerts in Lafayette Hill, PA to perform with pianist Adria Ye. Program to include Janacek’s In the Mists and Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 111.
Han is performing works by Tom Morrison at the Princeton Sound Kitchen.
Salon concert at the Piano on Park. Program to include Beethoven and Corigliano.
