Taiwan-Japan chamber music concerts slated for New York, DC
A chamber music collaboration between star Taiwanese and Japanese musicians will be presented at New York's Kaufman Music Center on Sept. 26, and at Washington, DC's Evermay Concert Series at the Ryuji Ueno Foundation on Sept. 28.
Co-organized by the Taipei Cultural Center in New York, the Ryuji Ueno Foundation, and the New Asia Chamber Music Society, the first half of the "Japan + Taiwan: Friends of Music Concert" will showcase compositions from both countries, plus other significant classical chamber music works. The second half of the program will bring the musicians together to re-interpret the late French romantic composer Ernest Chausson's famed "Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet," Op. 21.
‘Japan + Taiwan: Friends of Music Concert’
Artists
Nan-Cheng Chen, cello
Wei-Yang Andy Lin, viola
Ko Sugiyama, violin
Ryo Yanagitani, piano
Daisuke Yamamoto, violin
Keng-Yuen Tseng (violin)
Sept. 26 Concert
Location: Kaufman Music Center
Venue: Merkin Hall
Time: 7.30pm – 10pm
Address: 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023
Site: http://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/japan-x-taiwan-friends-of-music-concert/
Sept. 28 Concert
Venue: the Ryuji Ueno Foundation
Time: 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Address: 1623 28th St NW, Washington, DC 20007
Site: https://runeo-org.ticketleap.com/japan-taiwan-friends-of-music-concert/details
Program
Franz Schubert: String Trio in B-flat major, D.471
Tyzen Hsiao: Piano Trio, Op.58 "The Formosa"
Mamiko Hirai: Magenta Stallion
Commissioned by the Ryuji Ueno Foundation, US Premiere
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane
Ernest Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, Op. 21
