Warren Lee, piano, November 15, 2016

Robert Blocker, Dean

guest performer

Warren Lee piano

Morse Recital Hall November 15, 2016 • Tuesday at 7:30 pm

Yale School of Music

Warren Lee piano November 15, 2016 • Morse Recital Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750 arr. Feruccio Busoni 1866–1924

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645

Tan Dun b. 1957

Eight Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1 I. Missing Moon II. Staccato Beans III. Herdboy’s Song IV. Blue Nun V. Ancient Burial VI. Floating Clouds VII. Red Wilderness VIII. Sunrain

Warren Lee b. 1976

Three Novelettes I. Reflection II. Levity III. Blossom

Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004

intermission Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827

Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109 I. Vivace ma non troppo. Adagio espressivo II. Prestissimo III. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo

Frédéric Chopin 1810–1849

Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60

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Artist Profile

Warren Lee, piano Following his televised debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of six, Warren Lee embarked on a lifelong career in music, both on and off the stage. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and Yale School of Music with the highest honors, Warren was the first-prize winner of the 1995 Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition and the Grand Prix Ivo Pogorelich. Hailed

by The Straits Times as a musician with “superb pianism … a wonderful sense of colour and impeccably controlled articulation,” Warren’s artistry has brought him to four continents, gracing stages of all sizes and in collaboration with international artists and leading orchestras in Asia. Sharing the stage with Yale School of Music faculty pianists Boris Berman and Robert Blocker (Dean, Yale School of Music), Warren gave acclaimed performances in nine cities in China in the summer of 2014 in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Steinway in China.

As an educator, Warren serves currently as the music director at St. Paul’s Coeducational College and St. Paul’s Coeducational College Primary School. Under his leadership, the school became an all-Steinway school in 2013 and was awarded the Cultural Leadership Citation by the Yale School of Music in 2016. He is also concurrently a guest professor at the Central Conservatory of Music EOS Orchestra Academy, the Hong Kong representative of the Royal Academy of Music, and an adjunct faculty member and visiting artist at various institutions in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Australia, and the United Kingdom. His solo album, From Bach to Gershwin, released

on Universal Music (Hong Kong) was lauded as “a success that Hong Kong can be proud of”; while his album Ebony and Ivory with clarinetist Andrew Simon on Naxos Music also garnered favorable reviews worldwide; Fanfare Magazine called it “a winner.” Future releases in 2016 include Touches from East and West: Piano Music

by Tan Dun and Bernstein, and Schubert’s Sonatinas for Violin and Piano, both on Naxos Music.

A Steinway Artist as well as an M.B.A. graduate, Warren is also an award-winning and internationally published composer.

Warren received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in Hong Kong in 2012 and was elected as an associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 2015 for his significant contribution to the music profession.

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