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SUMMARY:Anna Han
DESCRIPTION:\n\nBIOGRAPHY\n\n\nHailed by the Washington Post as “prodigio
 usly gifted… a display of imagination\, taste and pianistic firepower fa
 r beyond her years\,” ANNA HAN strives to deliver heartfelt performances
  through a variety of classical piano repertoire. She has given solo\, con
 certo\, and chamber performances in such venues as the John F. Kennedy Cen
 ter for the Performing Arts\, Alice Tully Hall\, the Phillips Collection i
 n Washington D.C.\, The Kosciuszko Foundation\, SubCulture New York\, New 
 World Center in Miami\, the Lied Center of Kansas\, Canisius College\, Sco
 ttsdale Center for the Arts\, and the Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall in 
 Poland. She has soloed with the Chandler Symphony Orchestra\, the Downtown
  Sinfonietta (in White Plains\, New York)\, the Hilton Head Symphony Orche
 stra\, the Kansas Sinfonietta\, Music Academy of the West Festival Orchest
 ra\, the MusicaNova Symphony Orchestra\, the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra\, 
 the West Valley Symphony\, and the Verde Valley Sinfonietta.\nHighlights o
 f the past year included solo recitals at the Bohemian National Hall\, Fai
 rfield University’s Quick Center for the Arts\, National Arts Club\, The
 atre Lawrence\, and Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau\
 ; appearances at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School and Festival and Fo
 ur Seasons Chamber Music Festival Winter Workshop\; and concerto performan
 ces with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra and West Valley Symphony Orche
 stra. She was the third prize winner of the 2019 Hilton Head International
  Piano Competition\, as well a semi-finalist at the 2019 China Internation
 al Music Competition. She was also awarded a 2019 Salon de Virtuosi Career
  Grant.\n\nAn avid chamber musician\, Anna spent three summers at the Knei
 sel Hall Chamber Music School and Festival\, four winters at Juilliard Cha
 mberFest\, and looks forward to her second winter at the Four Seasons Cham
 ber Music Festival in 2020. She is a founding member of the Munin Piano Tr
 io\, along with violinist Rebecca Benjamin and cellist Frankie Carr. Addit
 ionally\, she has done a broad exploration of ensembles\, such as piano qu
 artet\, piano quintet\, and clarinet trio\, performing in venues from Alic
 e Tully Hall to the New York Bar Association to Brayton Hall in the Caribb
 ean Island of Turks and Caicos. A passionate advocate for the traditional 
 masterpieces that have enchanted audiences for centuries\, she has also ex
 plored new avenues of musical expression with an array of collaborators. R
 ecently\, she has presented the surprising sound palette of John Coriglian
 o's Chiaroscuro (1997) for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart\; Charles
  Wuorinen's Metagong (2008) for two pianos and two percussion\; a series o
 f original arrangements of works for organ and piano duo in collaboration 
 with organist Daniel Ficarri\; Jerome Begin's Strange Gardens (2015) for 2
  pianos\, 2 bass clarinets\, 2 percussion\, and vocoder\; and Ludwig van B
 eethoven's Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major\, Op. 69 as a fortepianist. She c
 ommissioned Malaysian composer Tengku Irfan [What’s Up\, Kid? (2018)]\, 
 expanding the literature available for clarinet\, cello\, and piano trio.\
 n\nBorn in Mesa\, Arizona\, Anna began her musical journey in a class of f
 our year olds at the East Valley Yamaha Music School. Classes in improvisa
 tion\, ear training\, composition\, and other general musical skills at Ya
 maha would continue to supplement her training in early years. Anna starte
 d taking private piano lessons at age five with Mr. Fei Xu at New Century 
 Conservatory in Chandler\, Arizona. Over the following 13 years\, he train
 ed and inspired her to rapidly and thoughtfully learn demanding repertoire
 \, developing a technique that undergirded her growing career at a young a
 ge. When she was eleven\, she became the national first place winner of th
 e Baldwin Junior Piano division of the 2007 Music Teachers National Associ
 ation Competition\, having barely made the age cutoff. In the same year\, 
 she made her orchestra debut with the Chandler Symphony Orchestra\, playin
 g Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1.\n\nIn the following years\, Anna swept p
 rizes at numerous international piano competitions\, including the New Yor
 k International Piano Competition\, New Orleans International Piano Compet
 ition for Young Artists\, the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Com
 petition\, the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition\, and the
  International Institute for Young Musicians (IIYM) International Piano Co
 mpetition\, where she remains the only person in its 15-year history to ha
 ve won first prize twice. She was named a Silver Award Winner by the Natio
 nal YoungArts Foundation in 2013\, and a United States Presidential Schola
 r in the Arts in 2014. Her performances of Chopin earned her recognition a
 s a scholarship recipient from the National Chopin Foundation of the Unite
 d States and as a semi-finalist at the Ninth National Chopin Piano Competi
 tion of the United States.\n\nAnna spent her undergraduate years at The Ju
 illiard School under the tutelage of Robert McDonald\, where she developed
  much of her interest in both chamber music and teaching. As a sophomore\,
  she became the winner of the 2016 Juilliard Gina Bachauer Piano Competiti
 on\, and received the Kovner Fellowship the following year. She is current
 ly continuing her studies in the Master of Music program at The Juilliard 
 School.\n\nAnna gratefully acknowledges the support of the Stecher and Hor
 owitz Foundation\, the Kovner Foundation\, and Arizona Musicfest.\n\n\n\n\
 n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeethoven: Piano Sonata in E major\, Op. 109\nR
 avel: Sonatina\nProkofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major\, Op. 82\n\n\n\n\
 n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets\n\n
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