Warm Prompt:
Children under the age of six or 1.2 meters will not be admitted. Each audience should have a ticket (ID card is also needed) regardless of the age.
 
JU Xiaofu
Pianist JU Xiaofu was awarded first prize in the second Hong Kong International Piano Competition, the eighth Asian Piano Finals, the first Shanghai Himalaya National Youth Piano Competition, and the first Youth Piano Competition of Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
 
He was a finalist of The Pearl River Piano Competition in China and recipient of the Juilliard Kenneth M. and Josephine J. Bissell Scholarship, the Martin Canin Scholarship and the Adele Marcus Piano Scholarship. JU was a featured soloist on the opening ceremony of the second Youth Olympic Games and the Salzburg Profound Arts Festival. The world-renowned pianist Jörg Demus recognized JU as a “pianist with promising talents and a natural depth in music.”
 
In recent seasons, JU has performed with the China Philharmonic, Beijing Symphony and Jiangsu Symphony orchestras as a soloist, appearing in recitals in New York, Bergen, Beijing, Nanjing, Quanzhou and Lanzhou. Xiaofu has also given lecture-recitals featuring Debussy preludes. He has performed in Wiener Musikverein, Salzburg Congress, the National Center for the Performing Arts in China, the Great Hall of People in Beijing, Shanghai Concert Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Shanghai Symphony Hall, and other venues in New York, Los Angeles, Norway, Croatia, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, etc.
 
Since his orchestral debut at age 14 with Shanghai Philharmonic, he has successfully played with orchestras including European Union Symphony, China Central Opera House, Shanghai Philharmonic, Shanghai Opera House, Japan Gunma Symphony, Russian Ке́меров National Symphony, Jiangsu Symphony, and the Hong Kong Youth Philharmonic. JU has had the honor to study with and play for many influential pianists, including Jörg Demus, Gary Graffman, Tamas Vasary, Vladimir Viardo, Jerome Lowenthal, Arie Vardi, Shikun Liu, Boris Berman, Dina Yoffe, Robert Levin, Pavlina Dokovska, Dimitri Alexeev, Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Leif-Ove Andsnes.
 
He started learning piano at the age of 4. He is a graduate from Music Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Ting Zhou. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor Degree of Music at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Yoheved Kaplinsky. In 2019, he published a collection of his poetry “On the Path Seeking for the Ruins of Spring”. JU Xiaofu was selected to be the first ambassador of Pearl River Piano.
 
Program
 
Claude Debussy: Preludes Book 2, L.131

1. Brouillards
2. Feuilles mortes
3. La Puerta del Vino
4. Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses
5. Bruyères
6. General Lavine
7. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
8. Ondine
9. Hommage à S Pickwick Esq PPMPC
10. Canope
11. Les tierces alternées
12. Feux d'artifice

 
Intermission
 
R. Schumann: Kinderszene, Op. 15

1. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen
2. Kuriose Geschichte
3. Haschemann
4. Bittendes Kind
5. Glückes genug
6. Wichtige Begebenheit
7. Träumerei
8. Am Kamin
9. Ritter vom Steckenpferd
10. Fast zu Ernst
11. Fürchtenmachen
12. Kind im Einschlummern
13. Der Dichter spricht

 
R. Schumann: Sonata No.3 in f minor (Concerto sans orchestra), Op.14

1. Allegro
2. Quasi Variazioni. Andantino de Clara Wieck and 4 variations
3. Prestissimo Possibile-Passionato

 
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