Saturday, May 6, 2023, 8 pm, NEC's Jordan Hall
Strings of Soul
Wu Man, pipa
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
Meraki String Quartet

Congratulations to Wu Man,
2021 Honorable Doctor of Music of New England Conservation,received the prestigious

National Endowment for the Arts 2023

Tickets:
$15 (age 7-13)?$30?$50?
Children under 6 NOT admitted
free student tickets (14yr and up) and complimentary for non-students
available

RESERVATION REQUIRED
Details:
http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/season/20230506/index.html

Program
Program Notes + Details: http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/season/20230506/index.html

Pipa Solo
Wang Huiran
Dances of the Yi People
Traditional, arr. Wu Man
Kui - Song of Kazakhstan
    
Viola Solo
Gyorgy Ligeti:
Hora Lunga (1994)
from Sonata for Solo Viola
Garth Knox:  
Nine Fingers from Viola
Spaces No. 4

Duo
Chou Wen-Chung:
Three Folk Songs
for Harp and Flute
Lei Liang:
Mother's Songs for Viola and Pipa (2020)
(co-commissioned by: Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts)
intermission

Viola Solo
Guo Wenjing:
Two Scenes from the Opera
Ahmed Adnan Saygun,
arr. Hsin-Yun Huang:
Adagio and Allegretto from Partita for Solo Cello Op. 31 (1955)  
Kenji Bunch:
The 3Gs (2005)
 
Pipa Solo
Traditional, arr. Hua Yanjun
(aka Abing):
Big Wave Washes the Sand
    
Wu Man:
Leaves flying in Autumn (2000)
 
Duo
Traditional,
sextet arr. by Sofia Jen Owyang:
A Moonlit Night On the River in Spring

joint by:
NEC's Meraki String Quartet
Yixiang Wang, violin
Passacaglia Mason, violin
Joy Hsieh, viola
Kei Otake, cello
Bright Sheng,
viola part arr. by
Sofia Jen Owyang:
Three Folk Songs
for Cello and Pipa

Wu Man https://wumanpipa.org/
Wu Man is a Chinese pipa player and composer. She is known for playing in a broad range of musical styles and introducing the pipa and its Chinese heritage into Western genres.
She has performed and recorded extensively with Kronos Quartet and Silk Road Ensemble, and has premiered works by Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, Bright Sheng, Tan Dun, Zhao Jiping, and Zhou Long, among many others.
Five of her albums have been nominated for Grammy Awards.
She was named Instrumentalist of the Year (2013) by Musical America, becoming the first performer of a non-Western instrument to receive this award.
She also received The United States Artist' Award in 2008
Recently, Wu Man receiving the 2023 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award announced on Feb. 28, the US highest honor in folk and traditional arts, recognizing her artistic excellence, lifetime achievement, and contributions to the nation's traditional arts heritage.

Hsin-Yun Huang
www.hsinyunhuang.com
Hsin-Yun Huang is currently on the Viola Faculty at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music.
Ms. Huang first came to international attention as the gold medalist and the youngest competitor in the 1988 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition.
In 1993 she was the top prize winner in the ARD International Competition in Munich, and was awarded the highly prestigious Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award.
Ms. Huang was a member of the Borromeo String Quartet from 1994 to 2000.
       
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The 34th Season
2022-2023
AT
NEC'S JORDAN HALL
UPCOMING

Saturday, May 6, 2023, 8 pm, NEC's Jordan Hall
Strings of Soul
Wu Man, pipa
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
Meraki String Quartet

The 32nd Annual All-American and Canada Chinese Brush Painting and Calligraphy Competition
2023

ONLINE Competition
for all students in US and Canada
age 22 and younger
Application Deadline
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Fou Ts'ong International Concerto Competition
Aug 19-20, 2023
for all pianists up to 35yr,
as of June 09, 2023
Concerto 2023:
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23
the 2nd edition, 1879,
Available on IMSLP as
“Version B"
NOTE:It is not the commonly performed third version from 1888 nor the first version from 1875.)
Application Deadline:Friday, June 09, 2023

Summer FREE Concerts @ NEC 2023
August 10 to 26, 2023
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Williams Hall + Jordan Hall

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NEC'S JORDAN HALL
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