BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:24@grandpianoseries.org DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Easter:20230419T193000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Easter:20230419T193000 DTSTAMP:20230821T210135Z URL:https://grandpianoseries.org/events/chamberfest-lee-fullana-strezeva-s t-leo-4-19-730-pm/ SUMMARY:ChamberFest: Lee/Fullana/Strezeva (St Leo) 4/19 - 7:30 PM DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpanish-born violinist Francisco Fullana\, winner of the 20 18 Avery Fisher Career Grant\, has been hailed as an "amazing talent" (Gus tavo Dudamel) and "frighteningly awesome" (Buffalo News). His latest album on Orchid Classics\, Bach’s Long Shadow\, was named BBC Music Magazine ’s Instrumental Choice of the Month. Its five-star review stated: ‘Ful lana manages to combine Itzhak Perlman's warmth with the aristocratic pois e of Henryk Szeryng'\n\nA native of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands of Sp ain\, Francisco is making a name for himself as both a performer and a lea der of innovative educational institutions. As a soloist\, he has performe d the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Bayerische Philharmonie led by the late Sir Colin Davis\, the Sibelius Concerto with the Münchner Rundfu nkorchester\, and the Brahms Violin Concerto with Venezuela’s Teresa Car reño Orchestra under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. His versatility as a p erformer has brought him to perform with numerous ensembles across the art istic spectrum: from major orchestras such as the City of Birmingham\, Van couver\, Pacific and Buffalo Symphony Orchestras\, the chamber orchestras of Saint Paul and Philadelphia\, to the baroque ensemble Apollo’s Fire a nd the new music driven Metropolis Ensemble. Francisco has worked under th e batons of Hans Graf\, Alondra de la Parra\, Christoph Poppen\, Jeannette Sorrell\, and Joshua Weilerstein\, among many others.\n\nIn 2015 Francisc o was honored with First Prize in Japan’s Munetsugu Angel Violin Competi tion\, as well as all four of that competition’s special prizes includin g the Audience and Orchestra awards. Additional awards include First Prize s at the Johannes Brahms and Julio Cardona International Violin Competitio ns\, the Pro Musicis International Award\, and the Pablo Sarasate National Competition.\n\nFrancisco Fullana performs on the 1735 "Mary Portman" ex- Kreisler Guarneri del Gesù violin\, kindly on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBach: Chaconne 13'\nMozart: KV 454 in B Flat Major 22'\n Turina: Sonata no. 2  ‘Española’ 19'\n\n\nRavel: Sonata no. 2 for Vi olin and Piano 20'\n\nThis program is played on violin with gut strings\, giving you a taste of the authentic sound of timeless classics of Bach and Mozart. The concert culminates with Ravel's violin sonata on the modern i nstrument. Francisco Fullana performs on the 1735 "Mary Portman" ex-Kreisl er Guarneri del Gesù violin.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraised by the critics fo r her "technically fluid\, dramatically convincing\, and sonically full-bo died supportive collaborations" (Boston Globe) - Milana Strezeva is a Mo ldovan-American pianist. At the age of 11\, she began playing chamber musi c with her clarinetist father and her mother\, a renowned soprano. Milana' s love for family collaboration eventually grew into a passionate advocacy of vocal and instrumental chamber music.\n\nA founding member of the awar d-winning Manhattan Piano Trio\, one of the most creative and dynamic you ng ensembles in America\, Milana has performed with them in over 30 Americ an states\, in Australia\, South Africa\, and Italy\, and in venues such a s Alice Tully Hall\, Merkin Hall\, and the Ravinia Festival. The Washingto n Post described the Trio as "impressive" and "outstanding." At the same t ime\, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune said\, "one seldom is privileged to enjo y the music of such a wide range of styles performed with self-effacing sk ill and relaxed assurance." In honor of the composers' bicentennials\, a C D of Schumann and Chopin trios was successfully released on the Marquis Cl assics label in 2009.\n\nMilana's most enduring and treasured collaboratio n is with her mother\, the renowned Soprano\, Svetlana Strezeva (a.k.a. "The Russian Nightingale" and winner of the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition). With programs that reflect their love of Russian vocal literature\, they have given recitals across the US as well as in Italy\, Denmark\, Germany\ , Ukraine\, Romania\, Moldova\, and China.\n\nMilana received her Bachelor 's and Master's degrees from The Juilliard School on a full scholarship. Currently\, Milana lives in Naples\, FL\, and is a President &\; Artis tic Director of Grand Piano Series.\n\n\n\nMike Cheng-Yu Lee is one of a new generation of pianists who is at home performing on pianos that span the early 18th to the late 20th centuries. Awarded Second Prize and Audien ce Prize at the 2011 Westfield International Fortepiano Competition by a jury that included Robert Levin and the late Christopher Hogwood\, his pe rformances have garnered attention for the fresh perspectives they bring t o familiar repertoire. For his debut recital in Australia he received a ra re five-star review in Limelight Magazine: “Try as one might\, it was h ard to avoid cliché responses like ‘stunning’\, even ‘electrifying ’. I don’t think I have heard a Mozart recital quite like this. I hear d things in Mozart’s music I had never thought possible and certainly ha d never encountered before.”\n\nAs a chamber musician\, Mike regularly c ollaborates with both modern and period performers and ensembles. He has a ppeared as soloist with the New World Symphony at the invitation of Michae l Tilson Thomas and collaborated with musicians from the Formosa\, Juillia rd\, and Aizuri quartets among others.\n\nMike is regularly invited to gue st teach and perform at some of the most prominent music schools around th e world\, including the Royal Academy of Music\, Oberlin Conservatory\, Ea stman School of Music\, the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California\, the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern Universit y\, and the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor\, among others. In 2015-17 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Jacobs School of Music\, Indian a University–Bloomington.\n\nAs a scholar\, Mike's interests lie at the intersection between music theory and analysis\, performance studies\, and organology. To date he has published on aspects of form\, meter\, and tem po in Schubert (Music Theory Online) and has a forthcoming article in 19t h-Century Music that develops a new hermeneutic interpretation of Chopin' s E-minor prelude drawing on autograph and biographical sources\, analysis \, and performance studies. Additionally\, Mike has contributed writings t o Early Music America Magazine and 18th-Century Music.\n\nIn more recen t years\, Mike has assumed curatorship of important instrument collections . In 2017-19 he was director of the Australian National University Keyboa rd Institute which houses one of the southern hemisphere's largest collec tions of historical pianos. Currently\, he is Artist/Scholar-in-Residence at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards where he divides his work between performance and scholarship\, developing programs for the center\ , teaching into the DMA program\, and curatorship of the center's historic al piano collection.\n\nMike studied at the Yale School of Music and holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Cornell University with a dissertation that wa s awarded the Donald J. Grout Memorial Dissertation Prize. His teachers i nclude Malcolm Bilson\, Boris Berman\, Michael Friedmann\, and the renowne d Haydn scholar James Webster.\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://i0.wp.com/grandpianoseries.org/wp-conten t/uploads/2023/01/79036_event_md.png?fit=2550%2C1700&ssl=1 CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Easter X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Easter BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20230401T210000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:-06 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR