Program:
Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 ---- Bach
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Minuet I, II
Gigue
Le cygne (The Swan) from The Carnival of the Animals ---- Saint-Saëns
Après un rêve ----Fauré
(Cyrus von Hochstetter - piano)
Le Grand Tango ----Piazzolla
(Lo-An Lin - electric piano)
Flight Of The Bumblebee -----Rimsky-Korsakov
(Chiuling Lin - piano)
About the musician:
Cellist Nan-Cheng Chen’s performance was recently described as “personable and smile-inducing” and “fine playing” by Washington Post and “Beautiful Tone” by New York Concert Reviews. As a chamber musician, Nan-Cheng is the executive director and co-founder of the New Asia Chamber Music Society (NACMS). An active soloist, Nan-Cheng Chen was featured in concert tours throughout North and South American, Europe and Asia, and has collaborated with Simon Bolivar Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Queens Symphony Orchestra, Metro-West Symphony, Quincy Symphony and Symphony Pro Musica, which received a review that states: “It was the kind of performance one might hear live only once a decade”, from Worcester Telegram and Gazette.
Nan-Cheng’s festival participations includes Banff Centre Residency, Sarasota Music Festival, Heifetz Institute and Kneisel Hall. He was a guest-performing artist at Chautauqua Summer Music Festival and a Kaplan Fellow at the Bowdoin International Music Festival. As a music educator, Nan-Cheng has given cello masterclasses at Penn State University, University of Wisconsin, University of Calgary as well as universities in Panama, Colombia and Taiwan. Nan-Cheng has taught at CUNY Queens college, and is currently a faculty at Feitian College in Middletown, New York. Nan-Cheng holds a B.M. and M.M. from The Juilliard School, and is enrolled as a doctoral candidate at CUNY Graduate Center.
Amidst the current COVID-19 situation, Nan-Cheng has given several high-production-quality live-stream concerts from his own home, as well as sharing his music making process daily to his friends and music lovers. For more information, please visit NatePlaysCello on Instagram or https://www.facebook.com/cellistncc.