De Geelvinck Salon feliciteert het Pianoforte Festival in Zaandijk van 21 – 23 maart 2014!

Pianist Shin Hwang neemt ook deel aan dit festival op 23 maart. Zijn ‘Selections from the “Kreisleriana”‘, is hier een voorproefje van

Programma;

Clara Schumann

– Romances for Violin and Piano, Opus 53

 Ludwig van Beethoven

– Violin Sonata “Kreutzer” in A minor, Opus 47

    — intermission —

 Robert Schumann

– Selections from “Kreisleriana”, Opus 16

Shin Hwang – piano

Shin Hwang, a prize-winner of the 1st International Westfield Fortepiano Competition, recently completed a dual master’s degree in Piano and Fortepiano Performance at the University of Michigan. As a versatile keyboardist, he has won recognition in both modern and historical performance. In 2010, he won Second Prize in the Ann Arbor Society of Musical Arts, Young Artist Competition and in 2012, he was a laureate of the Jurow International Harpsichord Competition. In 2011, he was invited by Malcolm Bilson to performed at the United States Library of Congress for the American Musicological Society Lecture Series: “What the Autograph Can Tell Us: Beethoven’s Sonata in E major, Opus 109″. As a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, he is currently studying at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague with Bart van Oort.

On Saturday 6 October, 16h. PM, Shin Hwang gave a recital in Museum Geelvinck, on a square pianoforte, on the occasion of the Geelvinck Square Pianoforte Festival 2012, Day of the Square Piano.

Aiison Luthmers Teyssler – viool

Canadian-American violinist Alison Luthmers Teyssier received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Colburn School in Los Angeles, and went on to pursue her long-standing love of Baroque violin. She now performs on both Baroque and modern violin, playing with groups such as Concerto Copenhagen (Denmark), Barokksolistene (Norway), Ensemble Zimmermann (Denmark), Arte dei Suonatori (Poland), the Malmö Symphony Orchestra (Sweden), and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (UK) as part of the OAE Experience for Young Players 2014. She has performed in festivals such as Midsommer Barok (Denmark), Utrecht Fringe Festival (Netherlands), Tröllhattan Tidig Musik-Dagar (Sweden) and Spitalfields Music (UK). Courses attended include Urbino Musica Antica and Vancouver Early Music, where she studied with Enrico Gatti and Marc Destrube respectively. On modern violin, she has participated in festivals such as Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West and the Oregon Bach Festival.