2020–2021
MUSIC AT EMORY
This virtual recital is presented by the Department of Music at Emory University. music.emory.edu
Photographs and Recordings Digital capture or recording of this concert is not permitted. Cover Photo By Mark Teague
2020–2021
MUSIC AT EMORY
Vivian Zhao, piano First-year Student Recital
Colin Song, piano First-year Student Recital
Saturday, April 10, 2021, 3:30 p.m. Performing Arts Studio Virtual Stage
Vivian Zhao, piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, op. 101 Allegretto, ma non troppo Vivace alla marcia
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Ballade, op. 19 Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) A la Albeniz
Rodion Shchedrin (b. 1932)
Vivian Zhao is a first-year student at Emory University pursuing a double major in neuroscience and behavioral biology as well as music. She began her piano studies at age seven, and later studied with Fei Xu at the New Century Conservatory in Arizona for five years. She has been a featured performer at the Musical Instrument Museum’s Young Musicians Concert and had a solo recital debut in 2017 with the MusicaNova Orchestra. Zhao has competed in regional and national piano competitions in Arizona, receiving notable honors and awards. Her achievements include second place at the 2019 Arizona Musicfest Young Musicians Piano Competition, first place at the 2018 East Valley Music Teachers’ Association Competition, and second place at the 2018 Steinway Avanti Future Stars Piano Competition. Currently studying at Emory under Elena Cholakova, Zhao has found great fulfillment collaborating with other musicians in playing twopiano repertoire. She also serves as a keyboardist for the Emory University Symphony Orchestra. In addition to piano performance, Zhao likes to use music as a way to connect with others. Throughout high school, she mentored students from low-income communities with little access to private piano teachers through the non-profit Harmony Project Phoenix. At Emory, Zhao is a content associate at Art for Heart, an undergraduate-led activist group focused on closing the art accessibility gap for underprivileged communities across the nation. She hopes to use music as a means to both spread awareness of social injustices and as a medium to promote healing and positive wellbeing.
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Colin Song, piano Piano Sonata in A Major, D 664 II. Andante III. Allegro
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Après une Lecture du Dante—Fantasia quasi Sonata Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Colin Song is a first-year student and a Robert W. Woodruff Music Scholar at Emory University. He comes from Glenview, Illinois, where he attended Glenbrook South High School. He was a scholarship fellow at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy, a training center for advanced pre-college musicians, where he studied piano with Ralph Neiweem. Song currently studies under Elena Cholakova and plans to major in chemistry and music. In his solo career, Song has received awards in the Music Festival in Honor of Confucius Competition, Sejong Music Competition, Depaul Concerto Competition, Emilio Del Rosario Concerto Competition, and MTNA Competition. As an accomplished chamber musician and a previous member of Duo Appassionato, he is a first-prize winner of the 2017 Chicago National Youth Competition for Piano Duos and has had the opportunity to be featured on WFMT’s Introductions. In 2018 he was invited to play at the Smith Center in Las Vegas, as well perform on NPR’s From the Top. Song was a finalist in the 2018 MTNA Senior Piano Duet Competition, held in Orlando, Florida, a quarterfinalist at the 2019 and 2020 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and first-place winner in the 2020 Rembrandt Chamber Music Competition. Locally, Song enjoys serving the community with his music. As a chamber effort in 2018, he held a benefit concert as a part of the Circle of Friends for Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. He has had the opportunity to take master classes from Andre-Michel Schub, Alvin Chow, Jeremy Denk, Duo Turgeon, Esther and Sun-A Park, and Vincenzo Maxia and Giuseppe Bruno.
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