1/20/2024, Emory University Young Artist Piano Competition: Winner's Recital

2023 | 2024

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MUSIC

Emory Piano Competition Weekend

2023 | 2024

January 19–January 20, 2024 Elena Cholakova, director of piano studies and competition director

Sylvia Wang, piano

Friday, January 19, 2024, 6:00 p.m.

Performing Arts Studio

Emory University Young Artist Piano Competition

Semi-Final Round (not open to the public) Saturday, January 20, 2024, 11:00 a.m.

Emerson Concert Hall Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Final Round and Winner Announcement Saturday, January 20, 2024, 7:00 p.m.

Emerson Concert Hall Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Sylvia Wang, piano

Sylvia Wang visits Emory as a guest artist and judge during the Emory University 2024 Young Artist Piano Competition. Friday’s performance will be at the Performing Arts Studio.

Three Intermezzi, op. 117 I. Andante moderato II. Andante non troppo e con molto espressione III. Andante con moto Four Études on Songs of Brahms, op. 88 I. Must we then once more be parted III. To A Violet Préludes, Book 2 La puerta del Vino Bruyères Ondine Canope Feux d’artifice

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961)

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Chen Yi (b. 1953)

Duo Ye

Sylvia Wang has performed as soloist and collaborative pianist across the United States, Europe, Asia, Central America, Australia, Argentina, and Lebanon. Venues include the Queen Elizabeth Hall and St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London; the Teatro Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica; the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.; and at Chicago’s Symphony Center with pianist Elizabeth Buccheri and the Hubbard Street Dancers. She has also recorded music for piano trio by Aaron Copland, Paul Schoenfield, David Baker, and Leon Kirchner with Molly Fung and Bryan Dumm for the Newport Classic label and music for oboe and piano with Nancy Ambrose King for 4

Boston Records. Other recording projects range from the piano works of Claude Debussy to contemporary chamber music for the Northeastern label and New World Records. Wang has been a winner and finalist for various competitions including the Royal Overseas League Music Festival in London leading to a performance at St. James’s Palace under the baton of Sir Arthur Davison, the AVANTI award leading to a debut in London’s Purcell Room, Chamber Music Yellow Springs in Ohio, and the J. S. Bach International Piano Competition in Washington, D.C. In addition to her work at Northwestern University, Wang has served as adjudicator and presenter for such institutions as the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China; the Centre for Young Musicians in London; the Chautauqua Institution in New York; the Peabody Conservatory; and the University of Western Australia and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia. She was also on the selection jury of the William Kapell competition. Wang is the author of the e-book, Memorization and the Pianist, which is sold in Japan, Europe, Australia, and the United States. During the pandemic, she completed work on fugaleze.com, an interactive edition of the works of J. S. Bach designed to help in the study and preparation of selected contrapuntal works.

At age 17, Wang left her native Penang, Malaysia, to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London as a recipient of the prestigious Associated Board scholarship, earning the highest award in solo performance, the Recital Diploma. Thereafter, she graduated with both MM and DMA degrees and earned a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Prior to the pandemic, she returned regularly to Asia to teach and perform, with engagements at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore, and a six-city tour of China. In addition to her work for “regular” audiences, Wang is proud to have presented animal-themed concerts for children in schools, hospitals, and concert halls throughout Southeast Asia. In recognition of “distinction in the field,” Wang was conferred an honorary Associateship of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

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Emory University Young Artist Piano Competition

Saturday’s performances will be at Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Competitors will play a selection of pieces from their listed repertoire.

Performance Repertoire Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Major, op. 10, No. 3 I. Presto Danzas Argentinas, op. 2, Three Pieces for Piano

Prelude in G-sharp Minor, op. 32, No. 12

Prelude in B-flat Major, op. 23, No. 2

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983) Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Rachmaninoff

YoYo Qu

Performace Repertoire Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, op. 53 “Waldstein” Ludwig van Beethoven I. Allegro con brio (1770–1827) Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, op. 19 I. Andante Five Bagatelles, 1–4

Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) Carl Vine (b. 1954)

Munan Cheng

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Performance Repertoire Étude in C Minor, op. 10, No. 12 “Revolutionary Étude”

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante, op. 22

Chopin

Jangwon Moon

Performance Repertoire Nocturne, op. 15, No. 2

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

Piano Sonata in F Major, op. 10, No. 2 III. Presto

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)

La Valse Lawrence Wen

Performance Repertoire Prelude and Fugue, No. 8 in E-flat Minor, BWV 85

Reflets dans l’eau (“Reflections in the Water”)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Feux d’artifice (“Fireworks”)

Debussy

Études-Tableaux, op. 39, No. 9

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Victoria Bi

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Performance Repertoire Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Estampes I. Pagodes

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Piano Sonata in D Minor, op. 14, No. 2 IV. Vivace

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)

Thomas Sinclair

Performance Repertoire Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903* †

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Piano Sonata No. 18 in D Major, K. 576* † I. Allegro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Étude in C-sharp Minor, op. 10, No. 4 “Torrent”*

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

Prelude No. 4, Book 1* Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Fantasie in C Major, op. 17 † I. Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen; Im Legenden-Ton

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

Conrad Flake *semi-final round repertoire † final round repertoire

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Performance Repertoire Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp Major, op. 78 Ludwig van Beethoven I. Adagio cantabile—Allegro ma non troppo (1770–1827) Ballade No. 2 in F Major, op. 38

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

April Preludes, op. 13

Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940) Jungmin Park

Performance Repertoire Piano Sonata No. 1 in G Major, op. 31 I. Allegro vivace

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Étude in F Major, op. 10, No. 8 “Sunshine”

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

Paraphrase de concert sur Rigoletto, S. 434

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Three Movements from Petrushka I. Danse Russe

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1972)

Intermezzo No. 1 in E Minor

Manuel Ponce (1882–1948) Mingze Li

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Performance Repertoire Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, op. 53 “Waldstein” Ludwig van Beethoven I. Allegro con brio (1770–1827) Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)

Gaspard de la nuit I. Ondine

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

La Campanella Melvin Xu

Performance Repertoire Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, Hob. XVI:52 I. Allegro

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)

Transcendental Étude No. 12 in B-flat Minor “Chasse-neige”

Variations for Piano, op. 41

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin (1937–2020) Christina Sung

Performance Repertoire Reflets dans l’eau (“Reflections in the Water”)

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Étude in B Minor, op. 25, No. 10 “Octaves”

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

Piano Sonata No. 1, op. 22 I. Allegro marcato IV. Ruvido ed ostinato

Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983) Evan Dan

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Alternates Jonathan Mei, Daniel Bae, Kevin Ho

About the Competition The Emory University Young Artist Piano Competition gives exceptional young pianists the opportunity to advance their skills by performing in a public setting. The competition is open to pianists ages 13 to 18 who reside in the United States.

2024 Judging Panel Sylvia Wang, Northwestern University David Kalhous, Florida State University Georgi Slavchev, Academy of Music, Theater and Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (pre-screening judge)

Awards First Prize: $3,000 • Second Prize: $1,000 • Third Prize: $500

Competition Sponsors Emory Friends of Music Emory University Department of Music Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Please Note The 11:00 a.m. semi-final round is open only to participants and their parent or guardian.

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