Ya-Fei Chuang Piano

Acclaimed by critics in the United States and Kashkashian, and is a frequent partner with abroad for performances of stunning Steven Isserlis and Robert Levin. virtuosity, refinement and communicative power, Ya-Fei Chuang’s playing has been Performances on include Boston named the equal of , Baroque, Handel & Haydn Society, the Garrick Ohlsson, and Idil Biret (The Boston Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Musical Intelligencer ), and Philharmonia Baroque, and Concerto Köln. has praised her as ‘‘a pianist of extraordinary ability, intelligence, sensitivity and command Ya-Fei Chuang has recorded for ECM, . . . approaching the height of her powers.’’ Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, and New York Commenting on her newly released Philomusica Records. Upcoming CD Chopin/Liszt recording, he stated, "If you releases include recordings of Liszt's opera want to listen to Chopin and Liszt with transcriptions, as well as the complete piano different ears, Ya-Fei Chuang's ecstatic solo works by Ravel for Le Palais des performances cannot leave you cold, and her Dégustateurs, to be released worldwide on pianism is staggering;" and Remy Franck Harmonia Mundi. The Ruhr Festival has called it released several of her live recordings, "...masterful...thrilling...phenomenal" including a solo album distributed as a (Classical Music Journal, Luxembourg). premium of Fono Forum Magazine. Reviewing her live recording of the She has performed with orchestras in Berlin, Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1, Fanfare Boston, Birmingham, Israel, Malaysia, and Magazine hailed her ‘‘delicacy and fluidity of Tokyo; at the Berlin Philharmonie and touch ... this version now sits at the top of the Schauspielhaus, the Gewandhaus (Leipzig), pile of Mendelssohn Firsts, alongside Queen Elisabeth Hall (London), Boston Perahia, [Rudolf] Serkin, and John Ogdon.’’ Symphony Hall, the National Concert Hall Her recording of Hindemith chamber works (Taipei), Suntory Hall (Tokyo) and, more was awarded a special prize by the recently, performances in New York, San International Record Review . Francisco, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and at Ya-Fei Chuang’s mastery of the most the International Grieg Piano Competition in challenging solo and chamber repertoire is Norway (where she also served as member complemented by her commitment to of the competition jury three times), and the contemporary music. She has given the Grand Piano Series in Naples, Florida. She world premieres of works by John Harbison, has performed at the Verbier, Shannon and Stanley Walden, Thomas Oboe Lee, and Oregon Bach Festivals, the Mozartwoche Pulitzer prizewinner Yehudi Wyner. . (Salzburg), the Mozart Festival (Romania), Beethoven Festival (Warsaw), European Music Festival (Stuttgart), Bach Festival Valid for use until 1 February 2020 (Leipzig), Schleswig-Holstein, Gilmore, For updated versions please contact Nevada, Newport, Ravinia, Sarasota, [email protected] Tanglewood, the Taiwan Maestro Piano Festival, and the Taipei International Music Festival. She has performed in the Celebrity Series in Boston, at the Fromm Foundation concerts at Harvard, at the Harvard Musical Association, at the International Music Sessions in Prussia Cove, England, and with the New York Philomusica. She performs frequently with the Spectrum Ensemble Berlin (Germany), and has appeared in duo performances with Alban Gerhardt, Kim

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