2024 Winner's Concert Featuring featuring Young Artists Concerto Competition Winners.
Princeton Alliance Church
20 Schalks Crossing Rd, Plainsboro Township, NJ 08536
Chiu-Tze Lin, Music Director and Conductor of Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra Proudly Features Kate Liu on March 17, 2024 at 7 pm in Princeton Alliance Church, Plainsboro, NJ.
Pianist Kate Liu gained international acclaim after winning the Bronze Medal and Best Mazurka Prize at the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland. She was also awarded the audience favorite prize voted by the Polish public on the Polish National Radio.
As a soloist, Kate has performed in many important venues, such as the Seoul Arts Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Severance Hall in Cleveland, La Maison Symphonique de Montréal, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Shanghai Concert Hall, Osaka Symphony Hall, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Hall, Phillip’s Collection, and others. She has collaborated with orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Polish Radio Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Daegu Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, and Evanston Symphony Orchestra. Her debut album of works by Chopin was released on the Fryderyk Chopin Institute label in 2016.
Born in Singapore, Kate began playing the piano when she was four years old and moved to the United States when she was eight. Her private studies then were at the Music Institute of Chicago with Emilio del Rosario, Micah Yui and Alan Chow. Early on in her career, she won 1st Prizes at the Third Asia-Pacific International Chopin Competition and the New York International Piano Competition. She received a Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music studying with Robert McDonald, as well as a Master’s and Artist Diploma degree from The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Robert McDonald and Yoheved Kaplinsky.
Free admission
Location: Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
From June 30, 2022 to August 4, 2022, every Thursday evenings from 7-9 pm
Trinity Presbyterian Church
East Brunswick, New Jersey
2022 Winner's Concert Featuring Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra featuring Young Artists Concerto Competition Winners.
The Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra proudly announces its 2022 Young Artists Concerto Competition. The adjudication will occur Sunday, April 24, 2022 virtually. A minimum of three soloists will be selected to perform with the orchestra at the Winners’ Concert on June 5, 2022 or in our Season Opening Concert in September 2022.
Submit your application online- http://www.bravuraphil.org/2022concerto
Liquid Church-Princeton Meadow
545 Meadow Rd, Princeton, NJ 08540
Princeton, New Jersey
http://www.bravura-youth.org/
Chiu-Tze Lin, Music Director and Conductor of Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra Proudly Features Avery Gagliano on March 20, 2022 at 7 pm in Princeton Alliance Church, Plainsboro, NJ.
Having just made her Carnegie Hall debut and released her debut album “Reflections” on the Steinway & Sons label, 20-year-old pianist Avery Gagliano captures audiences with her sensitivity, emotional depth, and musical expression. Avery gained international attention as the First Prize and Best Concerto Prize winner of the 2020 10th National Chopin Piano Competition and was the only American semifinalist at the 18th International Chopin Competition in 2021. Most recently, she was selected as one of this year’s two Bravo! Vail Piano Fellows.
Chiu-Tze Lin, Music Director and Conductor of Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra Presents a Master Class with Avery Gagliano on Marh 4, 2022 at 4 pm in Jacobs Music Company.
Season Opening Concert
Featuring cellist Noah Lee, winner of the 7th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians
Program:
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
The Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra's season opening concert "Classical Pops!" will feature some of the most famous works in all of music history. 20-year-old Young Steinway Artist Constance Kaita will perform Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini which contains themes and melodies familiar to all. The program also includes Beethoven's ubiquitous 5th Symphony and a "Best of Broadway" medley.
Jodie Chiou, age 16, Chaminade Concertino, Op. 107
Iris Kwak, age 15, Grieg Piano Concerto
Sarah Ma, age 12, Saint-Saens Introduction to Rondo Capriccioso for Violin
Dylan Shih-Wu, age 11, Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations for Cello
Location:
Princeton Alliance Church
27 Schalks Crossing Road
Plainsboro, NJ 08536
Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University
Featuring:
Nathanial LaNasa, Pianist
Wang Hua Yi Studio Violin Virtuoso
Program:
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor
Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Young Artists Concerto Competition
Schare Recital Hall, Rutgers University
Application deadline: February 1, 2015
Featuring
Community Chorus, led by Lyn Ransom, Choral Conductor
Program also includes:
Rimsky-Korsakov A Christmas Eve Suite
Strauss Emperor's Waltz
Overture of Jewish Themes
Excerpts from Handel's Messiah
Holiday Audience Sing-Along
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The award-winning Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, based in the West Windsor/Plainsboro area, is presenting its annual Holiday Concert on Sunday, December 7, at 7:30 pm. The Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra consists of professional musicians, high-level amateurs, university students, and gifted pre-college students. Its conductor, Ms. Chiu-Tze Lin, is a highly-acclaimed musician who has performed around the world and is active throughout the Tri-State Area.
The concert will be held at the Princeton Alliance Church, which is located at 20 Schalks Crossing, on the corner of Scudders Mill Road and Schalks Crossing in Plainsboro, NJ. A community chorus of singers from area choruses and church choirs will bring us selections from the Christmas section of Handel’s “Messiah." It will be conducted by Dr. Lyn Ransom, Director of VOICES, a professional choral group in Central New Jersey.
Dr. Lyn Ransom has been a faculty member at several universities, including the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Westminster Conservatory of Music of Rider University, and Iowa State University, where she taught early childhood music and conducted choruses. Dr. Ransom has been a guest conductor in Russia, Germany, England, and the eastern US, and has prepared choruses for several orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Riverside Symphonia, and Pittsburgh Symphony. In 1992, Dr. Ransom was given an award for outstanding contributions to cultural life by the Princeton Arts Council.
The concert program will include the “Emperor Waltz” composed by Johannes Strauss. It was composed in 1889, as a symbolic toast to friendship from the Emperor of Austrian to the German Kaiser. Originally called “Hand in Hand,” the “Emperor Waltz” is a piece that enthralls the audience with joyous music that culminates in a triumphant trumpet fanfare.
The orchestra continues its lively celebration of the “Christmas Even Suite” by Rimsky-Korsakov, a concert suite based on his opera of the same name. Its famous third movement, Polonaise, is an all-time classic for holiday concerts. The “Overture of Jewish Themes” brings a festive holiday tradition from the rich cultural diversity in Central New Jersey. The audience will be invited to join in the ever-popular holiday music sing-along at the end of the concert.
Partial Funding of this concert is provided by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
General admission is $15, $12 for seniors and students. Premium seating is available at $25 each. Tickets purchased in advance are $12 and can be obtained online from the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra website www.bravuraphil.org or by calling (609) 790-9559, (732) 792-2070, or (609) 933-4729 (Chinese) or emailing bravura.orchestra@gmail.com. Further information regarding the orchestra can be found at www.bravuraphil.org.
Featuring
Paul Reilly, Baritone in “Les Miserables”
Kevin Cheng-Chih Tsai, Violinist in Saint Saens Danse Macabre
Program also includes:
Rossini William Tell Overture
My Fair Lady, South Pacific, and “Best of Broadway”
