After receiving her Master’s degree in Piano Performance in 2007, she began her Doctoral studies in Keyboard Collaborative Arts at USC. She has been studying with Professor Kevin Fitz-Gerald for the last eleven years. In addition, she has studied composition with Ms. Kae Matsumoto, writing numerous pieces for piano and , , and solo compositions. She has performed her compositions in Japan, Canada, and throughout the United GUEST ARTIST SERIES States. Her most recent composition is a piece for voice and piano dedicated to the Japanese Americans detained in the internment camp during World War II. Hidden Voices uses several haikus written by the detainees that attempt to capture some of the hidden emotions.

UPCOMING EVENTS SOLOMON LIANG

Sunday, March 24, 2013: Faculty Artist Series, Althea Waites, piano and Linda Rose, violin with Mark Uranker, piano, Josephine Moerschel, viola and Kihae DeFazio, cello 4:00pm Daniel Recital Hall $10/7 VIOLIN Friday, March 29, 2013: Cole Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Müller-Stosch, conductor 8:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center $15/10. Program: von Weber—Freischütz Overture; Prokofiev—Piano Concerto No. 2 (Anne Yoon-Young Shin, piano (Winner Instrumental Concerto Competition); and Beethoven—Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60 SARA NAOMI SUMITANI Thursday, Friday, Saturday, April 11-13, 2013: Don Giovanni, Johannes Müller-Stosch, conductor, Stephanie Vlahos, director 8:00pm University Theatre $25/15 ACCOMPANIST Sunday, April 13, 2013: Don Giovanni, Johannes Müller-Stosch, conductor, Stephanie Vlahos, director 2:00pm University Theatre $25/15

Sunday, April 13, 2013: Multi-Piano Extravaganza: an afternoon of piano masterworks benefitting Keyboard Studies. Performers include the entire CSULB Piano Faculty: Chi Asada, Shun-Lin Chou, Valentina Gottlieb, Craig Richey, Mark Uranker and Althea Waites. Shun-Lin Chou, director 4:00pm Daniel Recital Hall $15/10 FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013 8:00PM

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SPECIAL THANKS TO: GERALD R. DANIEL RECITAL HALL Kate Gillon, performance coordinator; Kathy Smith, piano technician; Matt Pogue, graphic design. PLEASE SILENCE ALL ELECTRONIC MOBILE DEVICES.

This concert is funded in part by the INSTRUCTIONALLY RELATED ACTIVITIES FUNDS (IRA) provided by California State University, Long Beach. Solo Competition, Frieda Keck Young Artist Award, California Concert Artist PROGRAM Competition and second prize at the Taiwan National Junior Violin Competition. Solomon was a 2-year recipient of the prestigious Fine Arts Affiliates Scholarship with the College of the Arts—Dean’s Distinction at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music. Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata...... Johannes Brahms Solomon is the newly appointed principal second violinist of the Canton Symphony (1833-1897) Orchestra, as well as a violinist in CityMusic . He was also a member of the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival in 2012 and Music Academy of the West Sonata for Violin and Piano in F major, K.376...... W.A. Mozart (MAW) in 2010. He has performed with Yale Philharmonia, Aspen Sinfonia, Pacific Youth Symphony, Delphi Chamber Orchestra and the Cole Conservatory Symphony (1756-1781) Orchestra (where he severed as concertmaster for 3 years), including collaborating with conductors Christoph Eschenbach, Manfred Honeck, Andres Orozco-Estrada, Cadenza for Solo Violin...... Krysztof Penderecki Peter Oundjian, Nicholas McGegan, Larry Rachleff, Jahja Ling, Tomas Netopil, Asher Fisch, Giuseppe Grazioli and Johannes Müller-Stosch. (b. 1933) As an avid chamber musician, Solomon has participated in masterclasses taught by Midori, Peter Salaff, members of Borromeo, Brentano, Rossetti, Takacs and Avalon string quartets. He is currently a member of the Thalia String Quartet based in INTERMISSION Cleveland Heights, . The quartet is one of the two quartets selected to participate in Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar this summer, and will be working with Emerson, Brentano, Tokyo, St. Lawrence, Keller and Artis string quartets. At Yale, Solomon was a member of the Oneiros String Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D major, Op.12...... Quartet, appearing in many concerts including New Music New Haven, Edgehill (1770-1827) Concert Series, “Haydn Op. 64 Quartets” and a premiere performance of Glen Cortese’s The Swan Knight at the Yale Off-Broadway Theater. Besides performing, Solomon enjoys teaching privately, and was a teaching artist at Yale University and Légende, Op. 17 ...... H. Wieniawski the MERIT program at MAW. (1835-1880) Solomon received his Master of Music from Yale School of Music in 2012 as a student of Syoko Aki. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Fantaisie Brillante sur Faust de Gounod, Op. 20...... Wieniawski Music at California State University, Long Beach, where he studied with Linda Rose. Currently, Solomon is an Artist Diploma student at Cleveland Institute of Music studying with Stephen Rose, principal second violinist of the .

Solomon plays on a 1905 Giovanni Cavani violin, kindly on loan from the Chi Mei ABOUT SOLOMON LIANG Taiwanese-American violinist Solomon Foundation in Taiwan. In his free time, Solomon enjoys playing table tennis and Liang enjoys sharing his musical passion as a soloist, orchestral player and chamber basketball, and watching movies. www.musicians.yale.edu/solomonliang musician. As a winner of the 2011 Alexander & Buono International String Competition, Solomon made his debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in November 2011, performing works by Brahms and Szymanowski. This past summer, Solomon served as concertmaster of the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra based ABOUT SARA NAOMI SUMITANI an Native of Palos Verdes, Sara in Germany, under the baton of Maestro Christoph Eschenbach. With Eschenbach, Naomi Sumitani has studied with numerous teachers including the late Yhosuke the orchestra performed in Großes Festspielhaus at the Salzburg Festival. Suga, Konstantin Sirounian, and Bernadene Blaha. She has won several competitions in France and Italy, as well as many local piano competitions and participated in Solomon’s recent solo performances include Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 with the the Takamatsu International Piano Competition and the Hamamatsu International New Valley Symphony, as well as Henri Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5 with the Piano Competition. Her orchestra debut was with the Asia America Symphony in Cole Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. He also appeared as a guest soloist with 1995 directed by Heiichiro Ohyama. She has also performed with the Culver City- the Antelope Valley Symphony, Pasadena Orchestra, and Brentwood Westwood Marina-Westchester Symphony in 2002. While pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in Symphony, performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto. As a recitalist, Solomon has Piano Performance at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern been invited to play in many concert series, including a most recent collaboration with California, she won the Concerto Competition with Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto pianist David Fung at the Rolling Hill Main Concert Series in Palos Verde, California. No. 3. This gave her the opportunity to perform with the USC Thornton Symphony Prizes won include first prizes at Music Teacher Association of California Statewide conducted by Yehuda Gilad. 2 3