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Richard 10 & Ella 11Richard and Ella Embark on a journey together to learn and play and perform in numerous venues include the Esplanade Recital Studio and Carnegie Hall in New York playing this piece. They have also won numerous competition prizes with their rendition of this fascinating work by Beriot. We are featuring this special collaborative efforts of two students as our guest performance in our recital. | |
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Tianyou MaTianyou has been a top prize winner in numerous international competitions, including the Menuhin Violin Competition in 2018 (where he was also the recipient of the Bach Prize), the Postacchini Competition in 2015, the Eisteddfod string competition in 2010, and the International Summer Academy of the MDW string competition in 2018. His music playing has been broadcasted on the online Strad magazine, BBC 3 radio, and OE1 radio in Vienna. Tianyou has performed as soloist with orchestras including the Webern Kammerphilharmonie, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Doctors' Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and Adelaide Youth Orchestra in Australia. He has performed as soloist in many countries in Europe, Asia, the USA, and Oceana. Tianyou has been invited to attend the Verbier Festival Academy in the summer of 2021. Tianyou started his undergraduate study with a full tuition scholarship at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in August of 2019, studying with Pamela Frank and Shmuel Ashkenasi. In this performance for our students, he plays for us some solo unaccompanied pieces popular in standard violin repertoire such as the Bach Sonata Adagio in C Major, Ernst's Last Rose of Summer and Nathan Milestein's Paganiniana. | |
