Yin Zheng, Pianist
Performance Details
Date: Friday, April 10 at 7:30pm
Location: Ewell Recital Hall
Admission: Free
About the Performer
Pianist Yin Zheng performs and teaches throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. She has won first prizes in both the 28th Frinna Awebuch International Piano Competition and the Empire State Piano Competition. A Ukrainian newspaper described her playing as "an astonishing torrent of images, passages, and themes, amazing the audience with an unbelievable technical precision that was balanced by delicate melodic and dynamic nuances." Dr. Zheng, a native of Shanghai, China, is on the Artist Faculty at both the Vianden Music Festival in Luxembourg and the Schlern International Music Festival in the Italian Alps. Highly versatile, she has been featured at Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall in New York City and at festivals in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Spain, Portugal, China, and Canada. Dr. Zheng has recorded the Complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin by Mozart with award-winning violinist Bin Huang. She is currently Assistant Professor of Piano at the Virginia Commonwealth University.
This concert will feature the world premier of a new piano work by internationally acclaimed composer Lei Liang.
Program Selections
| Les Cyclopes | Jean-Baptist Rameau |
| Sonata "Lex Adieux," Op. 81a Das Lebewohl: Adagio - Allegro Das Abwesenheit: Andante espressivo Das Wiedersehen: Vivacissimamente |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Sarcasms, Op. 17 Tempestoso Allegro rubato Allegro precipitato Smanioso Precipitosissimo |
Prokofiev |
| L'Isle Joyeuse | Debussy |
| Intermission | |
| Klavierstücke, Op. 118 I. Intermezzo in A Minor II. Intermezzo in A Major III. Ballade in G Minor IV. Intermezzo in F Minor V. Romanze in F Major VI. Intermezzo in E-flat Minor |
Brahms |
| The moon is following us (Commissioned by the College of William & Mary, 2015) |
Lei Liang |
