Mazda Hall at 6.30 pm
(Free Admittance)
In a programme of Corelli: La Follia Sonata "Folies d’Espagne" Op. 5 No. 12; Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer", Op. 47; DvoÅ™ák: Four Romantic Pieces, Op. 75 and Wieniawski: Fantaisie Brillante on Gounod’s Faust Op. 20
A native of Beijing, Dan 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. He has won several prestigious international competitions, including Brussel’s Queen Elisabeth, Montréal, Sendai and the China International. He has appeared as a soloist with many renowned orchestras and is an active chamber musician. Dan Zhu currently plays a 1763 Carlo Antonio Testore violin, on generous loan from the Alexis Gregory Foundation.
Born in 1974 in Espoo, Finland, Paavali Jumppanen began to play the piano at the age of five at the Espoo Music Institute, where he studied with Marja Huhtamaki and Katarina Nummi. Jumppanen frequently gives solo recitals and has performed numerous times in the prominent concert halls of Paris, New York, Vienna and London. He has appeared at numerous international music festivals. Jumppanen has performed the complete Piano Concerto cycle by Beethoven with the Symphony Orchestra of the city of Kuopio, Finland and during the 2003-04 season, he performed the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas with violinist Corey Cerovsek at the Gardner Museum in Boston. Mr. Jumppanen also frequently performs large cycles of solo piano music.
