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July 19 Friday 7:30 pm
CICA 2013 Summer Music Festival-Symphony concert 1
CICA 2013 Summer Music Festival -- Symphony concert 1
Location: Brookhaven College
Bach, J. S. Concerto for 2 violins in D minor
Violin solo: Nanette Chen, Shih-peng Chang
Vivaldi 4 seasons Violin Concerto in F major, RV 293 "Autumn"
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61
Dvorak, Antonio Symphony No. 8
in G major, Op. 88
Dr. Nanette Chen
Nanette Chen started her musical education at the age of six in her native country, Taiwan. After graduating from Indiana University College of Music, she completed her doctoral degree at the University of Maryland under full scholarship with High Distinction and was awarded PI KAPPA LAMDA. She has studied with many renowned violinists such as Lin Yao-ji in China, Daniel Heifetz and Guarneri Quartet, Henryk Kowalski in the US, and Ms. Su-Te Lee in Taiwan.
Dr. Chen is in high demand as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and pedagogue. She has performed, among others, under Robert Scholz, Felix Chiu-Sen Chen, Gustav König, Dr. Jan Popper, Lutz Herbig, and Peng Cao, with Taiwan’s leading orchestras including National Symphony Orchestra, Taipei City Symphony Orchestra, Taipei County Symphony Orchestra, Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan Normal University Symphony Orchestra, Fu-Jen Catholic University Symphony Orchestra, and Yin Qi Symphony Orchestra. Her numerous recital engagements include performances all over Taiwan and occasionally in Europe, Japan, Canada, U.S.A., and Hong Kong. She has appeared at many major music specials including Taipei International Music Festival, Composition Competition Debut, Hsin-Tien Temple Art Series.
As a chamber musician, Ms. Chen frequently appears as a major artist-member of chamber groups including Kuan-Yu Ensemble, Rhapsodic String Quartet, Chopin Piano Trio, Taipei Ensemble of New Arts, New string Octet, and Taipei Ensemble Virtuoso, cooperating with visiting international musicians.
At present, Professor Chen is the head of the Violin Teaching and Research Department at the National Taiwan Normal University and also teaches at Taipei Municipal University of Education.
Dr. Shih-Peng Chang
Mr. Shih-Peng Chang He has given numerous recitals through Taiwan, Japan, United States, and Europe. After received his MM degree from Peabody music conservatory, he is a DMA (Doctor of Music Art) candidate at the University of Maryland. Mr. Chang has received many awards, including first prize of Taiwan National String Competition, winner of The National Taiwan Normal University Most Outstanding Musician Prize, and winner of The Taiwan National Culture Center Competition. During his time of United States, he also received the full scholarship from Aspen and Kent Blossom Music Festival. Mr. Chang is also member of Alexandria Symphony orchestra, Annapolis Opera Orchestra, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Chang founded the Taiwan Homeland Chamber Orchestra, and has leaded the orchestra to perform in many countries. He had released several award winning CDs which presents the compositions by well-known Taiwanese composer Dr. Diau-Hua Lim.
Mr. Shih-Peng Chang joined CICA Music School in 2006. He decided to contribute his knowledge to our music education in order to help more students.
Dr. Gregory Maytan
Gregory Maytan is on the faculty at Grand Valley State University (Allendale, MI). Playing over 50 recitals a year, Maytan performs major pieces around the world—including major pieces such as Paganini, Bruch, Barber and Tchaikovsky violin concertos. More recently, Maytan has toured through Nevada, Indiana, Michigan, Sweden, China, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia.
An avid chamber musician, he has participated in the prestigious chamber music festival ‘Musikveckan’ in Junsele, Sweden; the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee; and the Sagatuck Chamber Music Festival in Sagatuck, MI. He has performed at venues such as Ravinia, Tanglewood and the Chicago Cultural Center. Recently he performed live on Chicago Public Radio. Maytan’s first CD, consisting of music from his native Scandinavia, was selected by The Strad as the top recital CD of April 2009 and highly praised by Strings Magazine and the American Record Guide.
He has participated in the International Chamber Music Festival in Vienna, Austria, where he was a featured prize winner, and he has placed in the Swedish Royal Academy’s competition for post-graduate three years in a row. A sought-after teacher, he has presented master classes at Butler University (Indianapolis), the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, the University of Nevada-Reno, Northern State University-Aberdeen the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway, the University of North Texas-Denton, The University of Florida- Gainesville and the University of Wyoming-Laramie.
Maytan has recently been involved in the musical ensemble Luna Nova and also maintains his position as concertmaster of the Battle Creek Symphony.
Maytan has also performed as concertmaster and section leader for legendary conductors Kurt Masur and Christoph Von Dohnanyi.
He earned his doctorate in violin performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, where he studied with the renowned violinists Miriam Fried and Paul Biss. Other teachers include Igor Petruschevski (London), Federico Agostini (Bloomington) and Alexander Kerr (Bloomington). He is currently performing on the 1766 ‘ex-Loeb’ Nicolo Gagliano.
Dr. Thomas Chun-yu Chen
Maestro Thomas Chun-yu Chen is an internationally renowned conductor, violinist, composer, and string instruments maker and designer. A native of Taiwan, Mr. Chen has served as a member of the presidential string quartet, resident composer, and orchestra conductor for the ministry of Defense Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan. Maestro Chen is the founder and the director of CICA international Music Festival and School. Each year over 35 International world-renowned classical performance artists perform under the directions of Maestro Chen, alongside the Core-Art International Chamber Orchestra and the CICA Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. As orchestra conductor and violinist, Maestro Chen directs and performs three to four seasons of concerts each year. He has performed and collaborated with many top symphonic performers in the world, including Sara Sant’ Ambrogio, Alexander Gilman, Tao Fan, Lech Antonio Uszynski, Gregory Maytan, Erika Nickrenz, Julia Bushkova, Arsentiy Kharitonov, Shih-peng Chang, Susie Park, Arthur Hart, Alla Aranovskaya, Boris Vayner, Leonid Shukayev, Evgeny Zvonnikov, Dominika Zamara, Nanette Chen, Tony Baker, the Eroica Trio, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, and many other performing artists.
Chen has a BFA degree in performance from Fu-Jen Catholic University, MM degrees in performance, a Suzuki Violin Pedagogy degree from Southern Illinois University and a MA degree in Music Education from Lindenwood University. He did postgraduate doctorate study for the DM program at Florida State University and the DMA program at the University of Memphis. A decorated violin-maker and stringed instrument designer, Maestro Chen has received First Prize in String Quartet making and Tone Prizes in Violin and Viola from the VMAAI International Violin-making Competition. Maestro Chen, who has led research on violin making methodology for decades, is known for his development of a unique “crystallized” violin varnishing methodology that achieves extraordinary clarity, brightness, and tone. Maestro Chen serves as a competition judge for the “Eureka Springs Violin Makers Conference” held in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and “Dallas International Antonio Stradivari Violin Makers Conference” held in Dallas, Texas which feature over 200 string instrument exhibitions.
Maestro Chen has recently concluded a successful 2012 season of CICA Summer Music Festival consisting of 7 symphonic concerts, 12 extraordinary artists’ concert series’, 18 chamber music concerts and numerous other solo recitals performed by such leading musicians as the Eroica Trio, the St. Petersburg Quartet, Alexander Gilman, and Lech Uzsynski.
Maestro Chen’s upcoming performances include conducting 7 symphony concerts and many violin performances in the 2013 CICA summer music festival in Dallas, Texas from July 15 to August 4th 2013, leading and conducting the Core Art Chamber Orchestra, directing the Taiwan International Music Festival 2014 in Taipei Taiwan, and directing the Taipei 2014 International Jazz Festival.