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Come join us at this exciting concert talk event. You can also show your support by contributing at GoFundMe that is specially set up for the Crazy Talented Asians & Friends events: LEARN MORE & DONATE TODAY!

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Do we practice too much? Is it enough to just be a good musician? Presented by Crazy Talented Asians & Friends, pianist Sean Chen, violinist Siwoo Kim, and violist Andy Lin team up for a night of music and exploration of their lives and careers, including their musical journey as Asians, and what they have learned along the way. The musicians will share what makes them unique and the things that drive them to continue to create more art. However, they will also tackle issues of stereotyping of Asian musicians and students, and how growing up as an immigrant or part of an immigrant family has both helped and hindered them on their paths to becoming performing artists.

PROGRAM:
Handel-Halvorsen, Passacaglia for Violin and Viola
J.S. Bach, Largo from Violin Sonata No. 3, BWV 1005
Felix Mendelssohn, Octet Op. 20 – IV. Presto
Vittorio Monti, Czardas (arr. for Erhu)
Maurice Ravel, Tzigane
Peiling Wu, Wildlife Suite (from Chinese songs)


Mr. Sean Chen, a prizewinner at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and winner of the American Pianists Awards, is now an Artist-in-Residence Faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. Mr. Chen just recently released a digital record on the Steinway & Sons label, and continues to appear in solo, chamber, and concerto performances throughout the United States. In addition to performing, Mr. Chen also composes both original pieces and virtuosic transcriptions for the piano. He credits videogame music and learning improvisation and playing by ear at an early age with forming the backbone of his musical flexibility. LEARN MORE

Mr. Siwoo Kim is an “incisive” and “compelling” (Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times) violinist who plays with “stylistic sensitivity and generous tonal nuance” (John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune). Mr. Kim performs as a soloist and chamber musician, and he is the co-founding artistic director of VIVO Music Festival in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. LEARN MORE

Violist and erhuist, Dr. Andy Lin, is recognized as one of the most promising and the only active performers who specialized in both western and eastern instruments. Praised by The Strad “The great Molto adagio…..elicited some of the night’s most sensitive work, especially from Wei-Yang Andy Lin on viola.” and New York Times “Taiwanese-born violist Wei-Yang Andy Lin..…is also a virtuoso on the erhu, and he gave a brilliant performance.” Andy is the artistic director and co-founder of the New Asia Chamber Music Society. He has appeared as a soloist with both the viola and/or erhu with orchestras such as the Busan Metropolitan Traditional Music Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Incheon Philharmonic, the Juilliard Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Orford Academy Orchestra, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra and Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra.  Andy is also a member of the Musicians of Lenox Hill and serves as principal violist of the New York Classical Players and the Solisti Ensemble. LEARN MORE

Come join us at this exciting concert talk event. You can also show your support by contributing at GoFundMe that is specially set up for the Crazy Talented Asians & Friends events: LEARN MORE & DONATE TODAY!