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Presents pianists Yi Chang and Li-Ly Chang in concert-celebration of music around the world.
A prize winner in numerous national and international competitions, Yi Chang from Taiwan, is the winner of the 2022 International Young Artist Piano Competition, where he also received the Grand Chinese Prize. He was also the first prize winner of the 2020 Charleston International Music Competition. Chang has been featured in various recital series as guest artist, including the 2022 Washington International Piano Festival at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. As an active performer, Chang has concertized in various venues including Steinway Hall, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and more. He has worked with and received high praise from renown artists, including Richard Goode, Christian Tetzlaff, Leonidas Kavakos, and many other well established musicians. Previously, Chang was a pupil of Alvin Chow at Oberlin Conservatory and Pavlina Dokovska at Mannes School of Music. Chang is currently a DMA candidate at the University of Kansas, studying with Dr. Scott McBride Smith, KU Music Cordelia Brown Murphy Professor of Piano Pedagogy. Outside of music, Chang enjoys playing basketball and exploring various cuisine.
Li-Ly Chang Pianist, composer, chamber musician and teacher. She has received Bachelor Degree from National Taiwan University, master degree from University of Texas. She also did special graduate studies at Peabody Conservatory of Music in piano, composition and chamber music. Her teachers include Sacha Gorodnitzki, Leon Fleisher, Sequeira Costa, Fernando Laires, Walter Hautzig, Jack Winerock and Ming Tcherepnin. Composition teachers are Joseph Nelson, John Pozdro, and Henry Mitchell. She has received many awards, Teachers' Enrichment Grants and has given recitals, lecture recitals, workshops and performed solos, concertos in Asia, Europe and the U.S. She is in high demand as juries in local, National and International Competitions. Her performance includes the Dame Myra Hess Series, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Roosevelt Hall, Trinity Church Series, Shriver Hall and Center of Strathmore. She is an avid chamber music player, has been performed with members of Army, Navy, Air Force band, Baltimore chamber musicians, National Symphony and Baltimore Symphony orchestras. Recently, she was featured at a webinar “Meet the composer: Piano music by composers of Asian Heritage" sponsored by Frances Clark Center. In New Jersey her article on “Asian Women Composers-A music Garden" was published by Friday Morning Music Club in their October issue. “She is an expert partner in the Poulenc Violin Sonata. She played with the Monumental Brass Quintet with poise and considerable skill. The Ensemble showed expert technique, emotional expressiveness and a firm sense of partnership.” --The Washington Post.
She has written many piano pieces for all ages and all levels-Beginner, Intermediate and advanced. It has been performed at the Festivals, Recitals and competitions in MD, VA, NY, NJ, CT,DC, MA, KS, SC, NC, Tx around the country and overseas. Currently she teaches at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD. She holds professional Certification (NCTM) from Music Teachers’ National Association. She was commissioned composer for MD 2010. She was a music panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council and is the Director of the International Young Artist Piano Competition (IYAPC), a competition that she founded in 1985. The IYAPC is now in all U.S. states and overseas countries such as Germany, France, Singapore, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Please visit lilychangpiano.com
Program: Bach French Suite in G Major, Haydn Sonata, Hob XVI: 52, Liszt, Dante Sonata, American composers' works by Bernstein “13 Anniversaries", Bennett “Diversion", Creston "Prelude and Dance", Corigliano "Etude Fantasy", and duet selections from Amy Beach “Summer Dreams" and Samuel Barber “Par De Deux” and "Two Steps”: A new premiere “A Virtual Journey“ by LI-Ly Chang
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