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Brian Lin, piano, performs Mozart
Chinese concert pianist and doctoral candidate Brian Yuebing Lin enjoys a multi- faceted career of not only high-profile performances across four continents, but also as a frequent lecturer and music educator, the founder of the international media platform Piano League, and as an award-winning financial pundit. Describing his performance skill set, the renowned pianist Matti Raekallio hails Lin as “a tremendous virtuoso with an appealing richness of musical imagination and a performer’s courage that immediately captures the listener.”
Program:
FANNY MENDELSSOHN: Overture in C
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 (“Little Russian”)
Composers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era. Born in Salzburg, he showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. He composed more than 600 works, and is among the most popular of classical composers. His influence is profound on subsequent Western art music.
Read More ››Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840, in Vyatka, Russia. His work was first publicly performed in 1865. In 1868, his First Symphony was well-received. In 1874, he established himself with Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat Minor. Tchaikovsky resigned from the Moscow Conservatory in 1878, and spent the rest of his career composing yet more prolifically. He died in St. Petersburg on November 6, 1893.
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