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  Beatrice Long, Pianist
  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.