Declared a “first-class talent” and praised for her “poetic use of colour and confidently expressive phrasing” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the distinguished Taiwanese-American pianist Ching-Yun Hu is recognized and acclaimed worldwide for her dazzling technique, deeply probing musicality and directly communicative performance style.

 

Ching-Yun Hu's concert career has flourished with a host of engagements on five continents after winning the top prize at the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she was also awarded the Audience Favorite Prize. Immediately after, she was engaged for a seven-city tour across Israel and a special invitation from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 on only a week’s notice. A year later, she won the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York City.

 

 

Bach/Rachmaninoff：Prelude, Gavotte and Gigue from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major, BWV 1006

Bach/Jeremy Gill (b. 1972, Harrisburg, PA, USA)：Fantasie-Transcription on "Wie Selig Sind Doch Die" (2017) *Asia premiere

Ravel：Gaspard de la Nuit

 

- Intermission -

 

E. Wild：Seven Virtuoso Etudes based on Gershwin's Songs

Embraceable You *(East Is West, 1929)

Fascinatin' Rhythm *(Lady, Be Good!, 1924)

I Got Rhythm *(Girl Crazy, 1930)

Charles-Valentin Alkan：Le Festin d'ésope, from 12 Etudes in Minor Keys, Op. 39, No. 12

Nicolai Kapustin：Eight Concert Etudes, Op. 40

No. 6 in B-flat major, “Pastoral"

No. 7 in D-flat major, "Intermezzo"

No. 8 in F minor, "Finale"