Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/Dec/2015
Genre - Violin and piano recitals
In a programme of Strauss: Sonata Op. 18; Sheng: 3 Fantasies (Indian premiere); Franck: Sonata in A major and Waxman: “Carmen Fantasie” after Bizet’s opera
Dan Zhu is widely recognized as one of the finest Chinese musicians on the international stage today, praised as “an artist of affecting humility and beautiful tone production” by The Strad magazine, performing internationally in North America, Europe, and Asia. His recent triumphant performance with the Boston Symphony at the Tanglewood Festival has been raved by the critics as “truly brilliant, compelling, and polished”. A native of Beijing, Zhu made his first public appearance at the age of nine, performing Mendelssohn’s violin concerto with the China Youth Chamber Orchestra. At age twelve he entered the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where he studied with Xiao-zhi Huang. Four years later he was awarded the Alexis Gregory Scholarship to study with Lucie Robert at Mannes College of Music in New York. He made his Carnegie Hall debut with Tchaikovsky violin concerto at the age of eighteen, and won prizes at several prestigious international competitions, including Brussel’s Reine Elisabeth, Montréal, Sendai and the China International. His mentors have included Ivry Gitlis, Gerard Poulet, and Aaron Rosand.
Over the course of his career the pianist Oliver Triendl has earned a reputation as a highly versatile performing artist. Some 80 CD recordings attest to his work as an advocate of rarely performed repertoire from the classical and romantic eras as well as to his commitment to contemporary works. As a soloist, Triendl has performed together with many renowned orchestras. In 2006, Triendl founded the Kempten Classix International Chamber Music Festival in Kempten in Bavaria’s Allgäu region. Triendl, a native of Mallersdorf, Bavaria, where he was born in 1970, and a prizewinner at many national and international competitions, studied under Rainer Fuchs, Karl-Heinz Diehl, Eckart Besch, Gerhard Oppitz and Oleg Maisenberg. He has concertized with success at festivals and in many of Europe’s major music centers as well as in North and South America, South Africa, Russia and Asia.
