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.
 

 

 

Piano: Ching-Yun Hu
Hailed by Philadelphia Inquirer as a “first class talent” and International Piano Magazine (London) claims that “praises follow her around the world“, Ching-Yun Hu, is recognized and acclaimed worldwide for her dazzling technique, deeply probing musicality, and directly communicative performance style. Her distinguished and multi-facet concert career has taken her to five continents after winning the top prizes at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv and the Concerts Artists Guild Competition in New York.
Ching-Yun made her concerto debut at the age of 13 on a tour in Japan and Taiwan. She made her Aspen Music Festival debut at age 16, playing Prokofiev Concerto No. 3. A year later, she performed Grieg Piano Concerto to a sold-out house with the Philadelphia Orchestra. After her successful Lincoln Center recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2007, she has continued to perform at prestigious concert halls and music festivals across the globe.
Ching-Yun performs eclectic programming each season, ranging from standard repertoire to world premieres. Aside from regularly performing piano concerti of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev, she gave the world premiere of “Red Cliff” Piano Concerto by Yiu-Kwong Chung, with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center. The performance was followed by the concerto’s Asia Premiere at the National Concert Hall in Taipei with Chung himself conducting. Considered a star pianist in Asia, Ching-Yun curates an ambitious and ongoing recital project titled “Ching-Yun’s Four Classical Seasons”, performing four distinctive recital programs over 30 cities worldwide.
As the “Most Innovative Instrumentalist” award winner of the Classical Post Award in New York, Ching-Yun’s innovative and entrepreneurial projects have brought her wide recognition. At the start of the pandemic in 2020, to keep music live, she initiated and performed weekly livestream concerts directly on her Facebook Page, including an online charity concert that reached 57,000 viewers and raised $27,000 for underprivileged children’s education. Her performance was chosen as “Five to Watch” by Pianist Magazine.
As an award-winning recording artist, her debut album “Ching-Yun Hu plays Chopin” (ArchiMusic) won the Best Classical Album of the Year by the prestigious Golden Melody Award. Her recordings by CAG Records and BMop Sound received critical acclaim. Her latest album, “Ching-Yun Hu: Rachmaninoff”, released in 2019 by Centaur Records and Naxos, received “Five stars” from the Pianist Magazine in London and was called “essential listening for Rachmaninoff admirers“.
As a passionate educator and keen advocator of classical music, Ching-Yun founded the Yun International Music Festival in Taipei and the Philadelphia Young Pianists’ Academy (PYPA), which represents one of the most highly regarded summer piano festivals for young pianists, encompassing intensive recitals, master classes and guest lecture series.
A native of Taipei, Ching-Yun moved to the U.S. at the age of 14 to continue her musical studies at The Juilliard School, studying with Herbert Stessin. She went on to work with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music and with Karl-Heinz Kammerling in Hannover, Germany. Besides her busy performing schedule, she is an artist in residence and piano faculty at Temple University in Philadelphia. Ching-Yun Hu is a Steinway Artist.

 
Program
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in c-sharp minor, Op. 3 No. 2
Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major (Arr. by Rachmaninoff)
Tchaikovsky: Lullaby, Op. 16 No. 1 (Arr. by Rachmaninoff)
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G Major, Op. 32, No. 5
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in g minor, Op. 23, No. 5
Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (Arr. by Kocsis)
Rachmaninoff: Polka de W. R.
Rachmaninoff: 9 Etudes-tableaux, Op. 39
 
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