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Award-winning
Chinese Pianist Appears
Oct. 21 at Winthrop As Part Of
25th Anniversary of Artist Series
Oct. 13, 2000
ROCK HILL – At the age of 17, pianist
Lang Lang has already shown himself to be an artist of maturity
and depth well beyond his years.
In October 1998, he made his U.S. debut
with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven’s
“Choral Fantasy,” Alan Gilbert conducting. In August
1999, Lang Lang’s career took another major leap when, on two
days notice, he replaced an ailing soloist at the Ravinia
festival to perform with the Chicago Symphony.
The response was immediate and unanimous:
the Chicago press called him a “phenomenal talent.”
This young pianist, who was born in Shen
Yang, China, will appear at Byrnes Auditorium in Rock Hill at 8
p.m. on Oct. 21. ARTS etc and Winthrop University sponsor the
concert.
Lang Lang began his musical studies at the
age of three at the Music College under Professor Zhu Ya Fen. In
1993, he entered the China Central Music Conservatory and was
accepted four years later at the prestigious Curtis Institute of
Music in Philadelphia where he currently studies with Gary
Graffman, one of the outstanding pianists of this century.
First prize winner in the Second
Tchaikovsky International Young Pianists Competition in 1995 in
Japan, Lang Lang also won first prize and outstanding artistic
performance in the Fourth International Young Pianists
Competition of 1994.
Having already performed with the Houston Symphony,
China Symphony Orchestra and Moscow Philharmonic, Lang Lang will
play with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in Russia in December
and make his Carnegie hall debut with the Baltimore Symphony in
April 2001.
Tickets
for the Oct. 21 are $20 for adults, $15 for senior citizens and
$5 for students. For more information, call ARTS etc at
803-324-8803
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