november 4, 2018
MONROE TOWNSHIP CULTURAL HERITAGE COMMISSION PRESENTS

chamber music by american jewish composers

Featuring
Chiu-Ling Lin, Piano
Cheng-Chih Kevin Tsai, Violin
Wan-Yi Pan, Cello

Program
Goldmark Piano Trio in E minor
Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor

 

Return to 2018-19 season


A most lovely trio of the Bravura Chamber Players

Curtain call on a wonderful performance!


Chiu-Ling Lin is an international-renowned pianist, educator and former Artistic Ambassador who made extensive solo appearances in South America. Critics have written that she makes compositions “soar with her joyous and skilled interpretation.” Dr. Lin made her Carnegie Weill Recital Hall debut as the winner of the East and West Young Artist Auditions. She has soloed with orchestras such as the Atlanta Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, Des Moines Symphony & Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra. Her appearances in New York, Boston, Chicago, England, Canada, and throughout the Far East have featured her unique mix of music by Chinese and Western composers. Her virtuosity is showcased in the CD, “Portraits of China.” As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Marina Piccinini, Marcos Granados, and Ignat Solzhenitsyn. Dr. Lin is committed educator who received her bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and her master’s and doctoral degrees from Indiana University. She is Emeritus Professor of Piano of Drake University in Des Moines, IA where she taught for 37 years before moving to West Windsor, NJ where she maintains a private piano studio. She is past president of the New Jersey Music Teachers Association, the recipient of the 2014 Foundation Fellow, 2015 Teacher of the Year and still serves on the board. She is also the NJ-DE-PA tri-state representative of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music. She is currently the Program Director of Bravura Summer Music at Lawrenceville School, NJ and Chamber Music director for the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra.

Violinist Cheng-Chih Kevin Tsai, concertmaster of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, has been described by The Strad magazine as a violinist “with admirable facility.” Dr. Tsai earned his doctoral degree from Rutgers University under Arnold Steinhardt, and he was a pupil of Glenn Dicterow and Dorothy Delay at the Juilliard School. He studied chamber music with Felix Galamir and members of the Tokyo, Emerson, andGuarneri String quartets. He was first violinist and founding member of the Killington String Quartet. A native of Taiwan, Mr. Tsai is the recipient of numerous awards, including winning the Chi-Mei and the Taiwan National Violin competitions, and the first recipient of the Darrow Prize from the Killington Music Festival. Kevin has given solo recitals and master classes, and he has performed as a soloist and in string quartets in many major cities in North America and Taiwan, and European countries including Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and France. He has appeared in concert at Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully Hall, and collaborated with artists such as Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, and Pinchas Zukermann.

Wan-Yi Pan,cellist, is a native of Taiwan and a member of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra. She excels in both orchestral and chamber performances. She has appeared with the Erie Youth Orchestra, Mansfield Symphony, Cleveland Institute Orchestra, and the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. She has also participated in the Kneisel Hall Summer Chamber Music Program and the Quartet Summer Program. In June 2002, she toured the US, Armenia, and Russia with the American Russian Young Artist Orchestra (ARYO). During its Fifteenth Anniversary Tour, Ms. Pan was its principal cellist under the baton of Maestro Paavo Jarvi at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. She has subsequently been invited to join the Amirus Chamber Players, which draws from the ARYO’s most talented alumni. She has performed with Amirus at the Joselyn Art Museum, the Hillwood Museum in Washington DC, and the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. In September 2004, she was part of ARYO’s Musika 2004 chamber tour through the Volga and Ural regions of Russia. During 2004 and 2005, Ms. Pan performed frequently with the New England Music Ensemble inprestigious concert halls including Carnegie Hall. Ms. Pan’s teachers have included Peter Wiley, Richard Weiss, Jonathan Spitz, Merry Peckham and Allan Harris.