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2005 - 2006 Piano Series

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Han-Chien Lee	Friday October 7, 2005 8:00pm
A brilliantly rising star on the U.S. piano scene is pianist Han-Chien Lee. Born in Taiwan, the youngest performer of this season's Piano Series, 20-year-old Lee has already been awarded a Master's Degree at the Yale University school of Music where she studies with Claude Frank, the consummate master of the piano who has performed several times on our series. In 1996 she was accepted by the Curtis Institute of Music and studied with Eleanor Sokoloff. Lee will be pursuing further graduate study at Yale this fall. Winner of several piano and concerto competitions she performed Profoviev's Concerto No. 3 with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2001 and toured with the American Elite Youth Orchestra in Los Angeles and various cities in Taiwan. In just the past few years Ms. Lee has dazzled audiences in performances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's family concert series, solo recitals, in Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra and at Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center in a pre-concert lecture. As an active chamber musician, she has performed at the Sarasota, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the TCU/Cliburn piano institutes. A rising star with a brilliant future
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Garrick Ohlsson	Friday November 18, 2005 8:00pm
*It is truly an honor for us to present an artist that embodies the stature of Garrick Ohlsson.* Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. An artist of commanding versatility, Mr. Ohlsson has appeared as guest soloist with leading orchestras across the globe, performing and recording works from an unusually wide and eclectic solo repertoire of over 80 concertos. He is a consummate musical collaborator who performs regularly with the world’s leading ensembles, among them the Cleveland, Emerson, and Tokyo string quartets, and his own FOG piano trio. Mr. Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994. He makes his home in San Francisco. "…established worldwide as a musician of great interpretive and technical prowess."
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From Yale! Piano & Percussion Ensemble	Friday April 28, 2006 8:00pm
Winners of the 2005 Yale School of Music Chamber Music Competition.
HAN-CHIEN LEE, piano	KEVIN DUFFORD, timpani
ERI NAKAMURA, piano	JAMES DEITZ, percussion
Pianist Han-Chien Lee returns as one of the pianists in this concert. Eri Nakamura, piano, is a student of Peter Frankl at the Yale School of Music, where she is completing her degree program. Her awards include first prizes in the Miyazawa Piano Competition ( Japan) and the 2001 MTNA Collegiate Artist Piano Competition (CA). Kevin Dufford , timpani, is known for his artistic diversity, performing regularly in all genres of percussion. He has studied percussion and timpani with Tom Freer of the Cleveland Orchestra. Mr. Dufford received the Master of Music degree from Peabody and an Artist Diploma from Yale. James Deitz, percussionist,. made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 2003 in Keiko Abe's Prism Rhapsody in Verizon Hall. A New Jersey native, he has studied at the Curtis Institute with Donald Liuzzi and the late Michael Bookspan. He is presently pursuing a Master of Music degree at the Yale School of Music. Don't miss this concert featuring highly talented, exciting, award-winning performers.
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