Reviews
Beatrice Long caused a sensation!
Le Provencal, France
With inspired mastery, emotive range and profound lyricism characteristic of the virtuoso, she
extracted the most intimate and hidden meaning in music.
La Nacion, Costa Rica
Beatrice Long gave a heroines performance of the Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor (by Tchaikovsky), exhibiting dazzling technique and an innovative lyrical approach to the music.
Le Provencal, France
Beatrice Longs music making reveals not only matery in technical command and luxurious colors, it also reveals
a refreshing vision and a unique world.
Daily News, Hungzhou, China
Long plays with a maximum of insight and technical ability and can bring the mighty Steinway to its knees
Post and Courier, Charleston, SC
With the barnstorming technique the Taiwan natives allowed every piece they played to speak for itself.
The Washington Post (for the Long duo)
Long is persuasive in delicately inflected pieces conveyed with sensibility.
BBC Magazine, London, England (on the Scarlatti Sonatas CD)
Beatrice Long is a strong, no-nonsense musician whose command of these works (Scriabin Mazurkas) is
impressive
on many levels. She fathoms easily their harmonic substance, demonstrates an impressive patience
with their form, and has
a fine ear for detail and phrasing.
The American Record Guide
Long brought a rare conbination of charmingly graceful, yet almost sober dedication in her
stage presence and
effortless but fiery brilliance in her keyboard approach.
The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC
Biography
Beatrice Long: A top prize winner in several international
competitions including Cleveland International Piano
Competition and the World Piano Competition of Cincinnati,
Beatrice Long's rare combination of dramatic virtuosity
and eloquent musicianship has captivated audiences in Southeast
Asia, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria,
Central America and in the United States. Ms. Long was invited to perform as
soloist with Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonia Estato de Mexico, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan,
Taipei Symphony,
Laredo Philharmonic, New Amsterdam Symphony, Jura Symphony Orchestra in France and the Presidential
Palace Concerts in Taiwan among others. Her recent performances include recitals at Cultural Theatre in
Hungzhou China,
Summer Festival in Champagne, France, Del Valle Concert Series in San Francisco, Kunsthalle
Ziegelhütte, Appenzell,
Switzerland and International Piano Series in Charleston, SC. . Her live and recorded
performances have been broadcast
on National Public Radio, Radio France and CBC (Canada). Ms. Long
collaborates with her sister Christina as the Long Piano
Duo, and the pair recently performed in Weill Hall, Alice
Tully Hall, Taiwan National Concert Hall and Dallas Museum of
Arts. Ms. Long also appeared as a recitalist in
Ravinia Festival, Fontainebleau Festivals. Her disc of the Scriabin Mazurkas
on Naxos was praised in the
American Record Guide as "impressive on many levels". Ms. Long graduated with honors from the
Curtis Institute
and Peabody Conservatory, where she was under the tutelage of Leon Fleisher, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Enrique
Graf and Fou T’song.