Music and Musicians from Taiwan

Taipei Cultural Center (former operator of Taipei Theater and Taipei Gallery) is thrilled to present  "Taiwan Connection 2004: Music and Musicians from Taiwan" on Friday, June 18^th 2004 at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.

All participating musicians have roots in Taiwan (most were born in Taiwan, while three were born in the US of Taiwanese parents). All of them received musical training in the US and Europe. Many had won top awards in international competitions such as the Tchaikovsky International competition, Montreal International Competition, the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition, among others. The musicians are pianists Beatrice and Christina Long of the prize winning Long Duo, hailed by the Washington Post as "putting new life into duo piano playing", Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society II pianist Pei-Yao Wang, pianist Ching-Yun Hu; acclaimed cellists Felix Fan and Bion Tsang; the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra concert master David Chan and violinist Ming-Feng Hsin.; Avalon Quartet violist Brian Chen and percussionists She-e Wu and Cynthia Yeh.       

This program will feature music by distinguished Taiwanese composers, including the US premiere of Gordon Chin’s “Wind, the Colliding Sound of Time” for cello and percussion and Chung-Kun Hung’s meditative string quartet “Pensée Four”

*This concert is made possible through the generous support of the Council for Cultural Affairs, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, R.O.C.