Program:
Vieuxtemps - Capriccio for Solo Viola
A-Bing - The Moon Mirrored in the Pool
Kreisler - Prelude and Allegro
Hindemith - Sonata for Solo Viola, mvt. I, II and III
Bach - Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2
About the musicians:
New York City based violist Jiawei Yan maintains an active career as an orchestral, chamber, and freelance musician. Yan currently holds a section position in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, she has also served as principal of the Verbier (Switzerland) and Lake George (New York) Music Festival Orchestras and PRISMA Academy Orchestra (Canada.) She has also been a member of the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra (Japan) and the National Repertory Orchestra (Colorado.) She is also invited to play with Orchestra of St. Luke, Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra (New York), Bravura Philharmonic, Montclair Orchestra and Symphony in C (New Jersey) New World Symphony (Miami.) Jiawei has performed under the batons of conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Gerard Schwarz, Fabio Luisi, Manfred Honeck, James Judd, John Nelson, Osmo Vänskä, Jeffery Kahane, and Carl St Clair. Venues of her performances include Alice Tully Hall and David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and Richard B. Fisher Center Sosnoff Theatre (New York), Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg), Polish National Concert Hall (Warsaw), Konzerthaus (Berlin), Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna), Rudolfinum (Prague), Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei), China National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing) and Grand Opera House (Shanghai).
As a soloist and an active chamber music artist, Jiawei gave a solo viola premier at National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY), and viola recitals in Manchester Music Festival Winter House Series (Stratton Mountain, VT) Piano on Park (New York), Fordham University Church (Bronx, NY) and Percy Grainger Society (White Plains, NY). Jiawei collaborated with her mentors such as Laurie Smukler, Raman Ramakrishnan and Marka Gustavsson in Bard Faculty Chamber Music Concert. She also performed with New Juilliard Ensemble, AXIOM and ChamberFest of The Juilliard School in chamber music ensembles. As an outreach initiator, Jiawei managed and performed the solo and chamber music concert series at Fordham University and winter concert of Manchester Music Festival in Vermont following her participation of the festival. As a music instructor, Jiawei holds adjunct faculty position in New York University, coaching sessions in Mannes School of Music Prep Division, teaching studio at Nord Anglia International School in New York City and was a faculty of JCC Thurnauer School of Music in New Jersey.
Jiawei Yan earned a Master's degree from The Juilliard School as a student of Paul Neubauer, bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy from Bard College as well as in Viola Performance from Bard Conservatory of Music under instructions of Ira Weller and Michael Tree. In addition, Jiawei holds Professional Studies Diploma from Mannes School of Music of The New School and an Artist Diploma from New York University. Jiawei receives President Scholarship of The New School, Bard Conservatory Fellowship, A.H. Kuhn Memorial Scholarship and Lillian Fuchs Scholarship of Juilliard, Elain and Stephen Stamas Scholarship of New York Philharmonic, etc. throughout her musical education.
Chinese pianist Yi-Nuo Wang was selected as First Prize winner of the 2018 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, which is just the latest in a series of impressive first prize performances, along with the 2017 Wideman International Piano Competition in Louisiana. She is also a winner of the 2019 Career Grant awarded by the Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi in New York City. Among the many performance prizes awarded to her with these victories, she will make her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall during the 2019-20 season on the CAG Winners series.
An active performer in China, Europe and the United States, Yi-Nuo recently earned her Performer’s Diploma under the tutelage of the eminent pianist Alessio Bax at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. While at SMU, she appeared in multiple concerto performances as well as numerous recitals and chamber music concerts, including collaborations with cellist Andres Diaz and with the Escher String Quartet. Her recent itinerary featured recitals in New York and Florida, and concerto engagements in California and Texas. She also appeared on the stage of the Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall to perform two pre-concert recitals successively for the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York on August 9 and 10, 2019.
Her North American performances include the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the California North State Symphony, and the Meadows Symphony Orchestra of SMU in Dallas, and such major festivals as PianoTexas, Morningside Music Bridge in Calgary, Canada, the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in New York City, and the Chautauqua Institution. Internationally, Yi-Nuo has been a featured soloist with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine, and the Romanian Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra in Italy. She has also given numerous solo piano recitals in China—including cities such as Beijing, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Kunming, Ningbo, and Dalian—as well as in Spain (Madrid) and Indonesia (Jakarta).
In addition to her most recent first prize successes, she has also garnered top honors at numerous competitions: the Meadows Concerto Competition at SMU; the Artist Recognition Scholarship Awards Competition at NYC’s International Keyboard Institute & Festival; the Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition in Japan; the First Indonesia Pusaka International Piano Competition in Jakarta; IX International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Ukraine; and the Chautauqua Piano Competition.
Born in Beijing, Yi-Nuo Wang began playing piano at age 4, and went on to study at both the Music Elementary and Secondary schools at the prestigious Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In fall 2016, she was awarded a full scholarship for her Performer’s Diploma at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and she now lives in New York while pursuing her undergraduate degree at The Juilliard School as a student of Dr. Robert McDonald.