Temperatures are predicted to rise, both indoors and out, as the 13th annual Golandsky Institute International Piano Festival gets underway, July 10-15. The Classical Network will set the stage for musical refreshment with a series of broadcast concerts from last year’s festival. Join me today at noon for a recital by Wei Luo.
Born in Shenzhen, China, in 1998, Wei Luo studied at the Shanghai Conservatory, beginning at the age of 10. She racked up numerous top prizes in China before winning first prize in the 11th Chopin International Competition for Young Pianists in Poland and the 2nd Rachmaninoff International Competition for Young Pianists in Frankfurt, both in 2010.
In 2012, she was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she is a protégé of Gary Graffman. We’ll hear her in an impressively varied program of works by Albéniz, Beethoven, Chopin, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff.
This year’s festival will feature five concerts in six days, all held at Taplin Auditorium in Princeton University’s Fine Hall. Concerts begin at 8 p.m.
The festival will include performances by Claudio Martínez Mehner (appearing July 10, in works by Ligeti, Bach, C.P.E. Bach); Josu de Solaun (July 11, Chopin, Liszt, Tausig, Enescu); Father Sean Duggan (July 13, chamber and solo keyboard music of Bach); the Bill Charlap Trio (July 14, an evening of jazz); and Ilya Itin (July 15, Schubert and Rachmaninoff). Tickets are available online through the Princeton University Box Office.
The Golandsky Institute is the preeminent center for the Taubman Approach, a groundbreaking analysis of the motions that function beneath a virtuoso technique. The Institute helps musicians overcome limitations and avoid injury through the development of a healthy technique. The International Piano Festival is held concurrently with the Institute’s Summer Symposium, held on the campus of Princeton University, July 9-17.
More information about the concerts and the Institute’s Summer Symposium may be found online at http://www.golandskyinstitute.org.
Hear Wei Luo in concert. The broadcast begins at 12:00 EDT. I’ll be with you until 4, when among my featured works will be Bartók’s fairy tale ballet “The Wooden Prince.” Listen in to WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
