Yun-Chin Zhou, piano: performance program

Sunday

SEP 28

2:00 pm

YOUNG CONCERT ARTIST

Yun-Chin Zhou, piano

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This event is sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund.

Please be mindful of the following in the auditorium and the Pavilion: • Please silence cellular phones and electronic devices • No food or drink • No cameras or recording devices

Sunday, September 28, 2014

YUN-CHIN ZHOU, piano Sonata in E Flat Major, Hob. XVI:49

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN Allegro Adagio e cantabile Finale: Tempo di minuetto

Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude

FRANZ LISZT

La valse

MAURICE RAVEL

Intermission: 20 Minutes

6 Songs CHARLES TRENET Coin de rue Transcribed by Alexis Weissenberg

Vous oubliez votre cheval

En avril, à Paris

Boum!

Vous qui passez sans me voir Ménilmontant Sonata No. 2 in B Flat minor, Op. 36

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Allegro agitato Non allegro Allegro molto

Program subject to change

Yun-Chin Zhou, piano

YUN-CHIN ZHOU, piano A native of Shenyang, China, pianist Yun-Chin Zhou, whose given name means pure melody, has been hailed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as a “dashing virtuoso … complete with dazzling fingerwork and shapely phrasing.” His 2014–2015 season includes recital appearances and educational outreach at Saint Vincent College, the Center for Arts in Natick, the Lied Center of Kansas, the Port Washington Library, the Jewish Community Alliance, the Evergreen Museum and Library, the Bedford Chamber Concert Series and the Harriman-Jewell Series. As winner of the 2013 Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions, Zhou will give debut recitals in New York and Washington, D.C., on the Young Concert Artists Series.

At the YCA Auditions, Zhou was awarded seven performance prizes, including the Sunday Musicale Series Prize, which came with a $1,000 cash award; the Vancouver Recital Society Prize; the John Browning Memorial Prize; the Ruth Laredo Memorial Award; and the Slomovic Prize, which provides support for his debut in Washington, D.C. Last season, Zhou joined YCA clarinetist Narek Arutyunian in an evening of Armenian chamber music at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. He has also appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout China, including the China National Symphony Orchestra in Beijing.

Zhou won First Prize in the 2013 Gina Bachauer Piano Competition at Juilliard, which brought him a full scholarship and an appearance on WQXR’s Young Artist Showcase with Robert Sherman. He won top prizes in the 2007 China International Piano Competition, the 2006 Gulangyu Piano Competition in Xiamen, the Busoni Piano Competition in Italy and the Cleveland Piano Competition.

Zhou began his piano studies at the age of seven. From the age of 19, he studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Gary Graffman and Robert McDonald, with whom he continues his studies at the Juilliard School.

2014 2015 SEASON

Tuesday

SEP 30

7:30 pm

Sunday

OCT 5

2:00 pm

KU Symphony Orchestra with special guest

Joshua Roman cello

Sphinx Virtuosi Award-winning Black and Latino string orchestra

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