An die musik live
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To buy via phone, please call 410-385-2638.
Thank you for your interest in attending our concerts.
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Qing Li (violin) & Brian Ganz (piano)
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Sun, 12/09/07
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(1990 days ago)
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From: 03:00 PM
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To: 04:00 PM
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Location: An die Musik Live
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Contact:
henry@andiemusik.com
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(410) 385-2638
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Tickets: $15 general / $12 students & seniors
PROGRAM:
Bach, Johann Sebastian - Chaconne
Paganini, Niccolo - Solo Caprices, Op. 1, No. 17
Beethoven, Ludwig Van - Sonata No. 7 in c minor, Op. 30
Franck, Cesar - Sonata in A Major
Ravel, Maurice - Tzigane
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
When he arrived in Baltimore in 2001 as the new Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony, one of the first items of business for Yuri Temirkanov was the appointment of Qing Li to become Principal Second Violin. Such was the impact of her performance on the new conductor, but this is not unusual for the Beijing-born Ms. Li.
From her earliest days as a musician, Qing Li has been a model of achievement reflective of her immense natural talent.
Today, Ms. Li is an active symphony musician, chamber player and soloist. Her positions in orchestras have included Acting Assistant Concertmaster, and Acting Assistant Principal Second Violin, all of which followed her first appointment to joining the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra by David Zinman some 13 years ago.
A much-honored performer, among her awards are the top prizes in the Marbury Violin Competition (1992), finalist in the Chicago Symphonys international search for Principal Second Violin (2001), semi-finalist in both the Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition in Belgium (1997) and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions (1997) as well as advanced prizes in the Tokyo International Violin Competition (1986) and the Beijing International Violin Competition (1986).
Her festival appearances have included the Aspen, Tanglewood, Meadowmount and Grand Teton festivals all of which were fellowships awarded to her as well as a five-year fellowship at the Peabody Conservatory from 1987 to 1992.
Qing Li studied with the late Berl Senofsky as well as the legendary teachers Josef Gingold and Dorothy Delay and holds degrees from Peabody as well as the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
She has been a frequent soloist with the Baltimore Symphony and has been guest soloist with the Bay Atlantic Symphony, the National Broadcast Philharmonic of China, the West Shore Symphony (PA) and the Chicago-Saarbrucken Chamber Ensemble. In December 2005, together with Hilary Hahn, they raised $50,000.00 for a organ restoration benefit concert playing Bach double violin concerto. Ms. Li has also collaborated with such accomplished musicians as Lang-Lang, Pinchas Zukerman and Leon Fleisher and such conductors as Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Daniel Hege and Alexander Schneider.
Miss Li is also the principal second violin of the ShangHai World wide Chinese Artist Symphony Orchestra.
The joint effort of major symphony orchestra's Concertmasters and Principals from Chicago Symphony to Berlin Philharmonic, consists of the first-class musicians of more than 50 major orchestras worldwide.
The annual New Year's concerts turn ShangHai into a international music heaven.
In addition to her duties with the Baltimore Symphony, Ms. Li is a regular performer in the Candlelight Concert Series at Baltimores Second Presbyterian Church where various chamber ensembles composed of BSO musicians present eight concerts a year.
Qing Li performs on a Nicolo Gagliano violin crafted in 1736 Naples, Italy.
Pianist Brian Ganz has accumulated a list of awards, concert credits,
and solo appearances with orchestras that establish him as one of the
leading pianists of his generation. After recent performances with the
St. Louis Symphony, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch critic wrote:
"Note-perfect cascades of rippling arpeggios, melodies soaring into
space and microscopically sculpted phrases only begin to describe Ganz's
breathtaking technique and spectacular musicianship."
Ganz was co-winner of First Grand Prize in the 1989 Marguerite
Long-Jacques Thibaud International Piano Competition in Paris, where he
was awarded special prizes for the best recital round of the competition
and best performance of the required work. That same year, he won a
Beethoven Fellowship awarded by the American Pianists Association, and
in 1991, he was silver medalist with third prize in the Queen Elisabeth
of Belgium International Piano Competition.
He has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the St. Louis
Symphony, the National Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Buffalo
Philharmonic, the National Chamber Orchestra, L'Orchestre National de
Belgique, L'Orchestre Lamoureux, the City of London Sinfonia and
L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo. He has performed in such
halls as the Kennedy Center Concert Hall and Terrace Theater, La Salle
Pleyel and Salle Gaveau in Paris, La Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels,
De Doelen in Rotterdam, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, L'Arena Theater in
Verona, and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. His performances have been
heard on National Public Radio's Performance Today, and he has been broadcast live from both Paris on Radio France and Brussels on Belgian Radio and Television.
Ganz made his recording debut in August of 1992 in Belgium, and his
recordings of works by Dutilleux and Chopin have been released on the
Accord label in Paris. He has also recorded for the Gailly and REM
labels in Europe. Recent performance highlights include a 1993 concerto
appearance at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony under the
baton of Mstislav Rostropovich, a concerto performance in the
Phillipines' first Mostly Mozart Festival; and a concerto performance
for the 1994 Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, under
the baton of Gustav Meier. A live CD recording of the 1994 Long-Thibaud
gala concert in Paris includes Ganz' collaboration with the French
pianist Phillipe Entremont and Russian pianist Jania Aoubakirova in
Mozart's Concerto for Three Pianos and Orchestra, K.242.
Ganz is a graduate of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins
University, where he studied with Leon Fleisher. A 1990 Fellow at the
Tanglewood Music Center, Ganz is also an accomplished chamber musician.
He has been called "splendid" as an accompanist/duo partner by the New
York Times, and "a model chamber musician" by the Washington Post.
Gifted as a teacher, Brian Ganz is Musician-in-Residence and is a member
of the piano faculty at St. Mary's College of Maryland. He is also an
adjunct member of the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore,
where serves as a teaching assistant to Leon Fleisher. Ganz is an active
participant in the fight against hunger both locally and throughout the
world, and frequently donates performances in benefit concerts. He is a
founding member of the Washington Chapter of Artists to End Hunger.
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