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Tenor / , Piano Sunday, October 10, 2010 7:00 Pm , Viola Tuesday, September 28, 2010 7:30 p.m. Mixon Hall Paul Schenly, director SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Impromptu No. 3 in B-flat Major D.935 Alex Wasserman BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Sonata in E Minor, Op. 90 I Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck II Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen Ying Ying Wang BEETHOVEN Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 I Moderato cantabile molto espressivo II Allegro molto , tenor / , piano Hrant Bagrazyan Sunday, October 10, 2010 7:00 p.m. BRAHMS (1833-1897) Works by Haydn, Nin, Hahn, Massenet and others. Sonata in F Minor, Op. 5 I Allegro Maestoso , viola / , piano Muen Wei Sunday, November 14, 2010 7:00 p.m. An all-Brahms program CHOPIN (1810-1849) Preludes Op. 29, No. 17-24 , piano Yunjie Chen Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:00 p.m. LIGETI (b.1923) Works by Bach and Schubert This event is sponsored by Étude L'escalier du diable (The Devil's stairs) Yunjie Chen SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921) Tickets $45 Toccata from the 6 Etudes, Op. 111 Buy online at cim.edu Yunjie Chen 216.791.5000, ext. 411 In 2000, she went to Beijing and studied with Zhang Jin, head of the piano department in the Central Conservatory of Music's middle school. In 2001, Paul Schenly is the head of the CIM piano department and holds the she won two golden prizes at the Fourth Mido International Piano Compe- Reinberger Chair in Piano. He has won the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize tition in France and in 2002, she won Third prize at the Ninth Xinghai Cup and holds a Master of Music degree from CIM, where he studied with International Competition in Beijing. She is currently a freshman studying Victor Babin. He serves as artistic director of the Cleveland International with Paul Schenly and Antonio Pompa-Baldi. Piano Competition and is the founder/director of PianoFest in the Hamp- tons. Mr. Schenly has played extensively with major orchestras throughout Armenian Hrant Bagrazyan was born in 1985 and began piano studies at the the U.S. and Europe, including the Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco age of seven at the Musical School Tchaikovsky, Yerevan, Armenia. He later Symphonies, The Cleveland Orchestra and the Los Angeles and New York was accepted into the Yerevan State Conservatory Komitas. A prizewinner of Philharmonics. He has performed with many of the world’s leading con- competitions in Armenia, Belgium and the Ukraine, Bagrazyan currently stud- ductors, including James Levine, Erich Leinsdorf, Christoph von ies at CIM with Sergei Babayan. Dohnányi, Edo de Waart, Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert Shaw and Aaron Copland. Mr. Schenly has appeared in many summer festivals, including the Hollywood Bowl, Ravinia Festival, Blossom and the Mostly Mozart Muen Wei began studying piano in China at age four and made her debut at Festival. He has toured Europe with the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the age six. She received bachelor degree in piano performance from China appeared at the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, as well as in Conservatory in Beijing. She has won many prizes, including the 1st prize of acclaimed recitals at Carnegie Hall. He serves on the advisory board of the the forth International Frederick Chopin Competition for Young Pianists, American Pianists Foundation and on the nominating committee for the Beijing district in 2004, the Special prizes for best performances of Mozart at Gilmore Piano Foundation. Mr. Schenly has recorded for Sine Qua Non the Fourteenth Hong Kong-Asia Piano Competition in 2006, and the Second and RCA and was artist-in-residence at the Ravinia Festival and a faculty Prize in the Concerto Competition of the Third Beijing International Music member at the Music Academy of the West. Born in Munich, he lived in Festival in 2008 and received great appreciation from the jury which includes South America before coming to the U.S. at age five. Mr. Arie Vardi, Mr. Badura-Skoda, and Mr. Tamas Ungar. Muen has given critically acclaimed recitals across China and initiated a charity concert for the earthquake victims in Sichuan, China. Currently, she is doing her masters degree at Cleveland Institute of Music with Dr. Daniel Shapiro since 2010. A native of Oak Park, California, Alexander Wasserman began formal piano studies with Suzanne Julian, a protege of acclaimed pianist and teacher Jakob Yunjie Chen has garnered praise and top honors for his musical skill ever Gimpel. Mr. Wasserman is currently in the Doctor of Musical Arts program in since he won First Prize in China’s National Piano Competition at the age of piano performance at CIM, studying with Antonio Pompa-Baldi. He holds twelve. Since then, he has performed to great acclaim throughout his native degrees in piano performance from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins China and internationally, including a performance with the SBS Television University, CIM and the University of Southern California Thornton School of and Radio Youth Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House in Australia. As a Music. Former teachers include Yong Hi Moon, Daniel Shapiro and Antoinette Young Concert Artists winner, Chen made his Washington DC debut at the Perry. Mr. Wasserman maintains an active concert schedule, with recent Kennedy Center, his New York debut at the 92nd Street Y, and his Boston performances in the cities of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, La Jolla, debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum during the 2001-2002 season. Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. As recitalist, chamber musician, He has given recitals throughout China, has performed Beethoven Piano Con- and orchestral soloist, his performances have been broadcast on television and certo No.1 with the Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra and No.2 with the classical radio stations, including live performances of concertos by Liszt and China Center Symphony Orchestra, has traveled to Hong Kong to perform, and Rachmaninoff. Additionally, he has been heard in chamber performances on has appeared as soloist with the SBS Television and Radio Youth Orchestra at Los Angeles's premier classical radio station, KUSC 91.5 FM. Most recently, the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Chen won top prizes at the International his performance of works by Beethoven and Chopin on the "Dame Myra Hess" Piano Competition of China, the Ettlingen International Competition in concert series was aired on Chicago's television channel 25, and radio station Germany and the Maurice M. Clairmont Piano Prize of Young Concert Artists. WFMT 98.7 FM. He is currently a faculty member at Youngstown University. Recently, Chen won First Prize at the 2009 International Russian Music Competition in San Jose, California, the 4th Prize at the 2009 Marguerite Long Ying Ying Wang was born in 1990 in Shandong Province. She began her International Piano Competition, where he earned the Prix Serge Arend for the piano studies at the age of seven. After two years of studies, she attend the best interprétation of a work by Mozart, and the Prix Germaine Mounier for the 5th "Taipingyang Cup" competition in Shandong and won the first prize. best interprétation of a work by Chopin. .
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