BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31@grandpianoseries.org DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Easter:20211207T193000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Easter:20211207T210000 DTSTAMP:20230731T002217Z URL:https://grandpianoseries.org/events/chelsea-guo/ SUMMARY:Chelsea Guo DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nChelsea Guo\, at the age of twenty\, has already attracte d international attention as a pianist and soprano of remarkable gifts. He r dual artistry is featured in her 2021 debut recording on the Orchid Clas sics label\, “Chelsea Guo: Chopin in My Voice\,” which includes belove d Chopin solo repertoire\, along with two Chopin songs and one Rossini ari a in which the artist accompanies herself. The inclusion of the Rossini ar ia is typical of the concert programs Chelsea offers\, which often display the influence that singers had on composers of their time. Gramophone Mag azine included the recording in their Essential New Albums\, and Classical FM featured Chelsea for an entire week in their Drive Discovery and “Yo ung Classical Star” program. In China\, all of the major digital music p latforms prominently displayed the recording on their home pages.\n\n\n\nC helsea’s 2021-22 season began with her German debut at the Moritzburg Fe stival\, which featured her in seven concerts as both pianist and soprano. It also included appearances in both capacities with the Stamford Symphon y and Michael Stern in their season-opening gala and in an hour-long retur n visit to radio station WQXR’s Young Artist Showcase. It will continue similarly with the New Jersey Symphony and with the Oregon Mozart Players and Kelly Kuo in the closing concert of their 40th anniversary season. Che lsea’s appearance in Naples is her first in Florida since taking a top p rize in the 2020 National Chopin Piano Competition. She also performs reci tals in Florida this season for the Chopin Foundation of the United States and the Miami International Piano Festival.\nChelsea’s solo piano perfo rmances have taken her to Carnegie Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall\, as w ell as prominent venues throughout the United States\, England\, Austria\, France\, Poland\, Italy\, China\, Japan\, and Canada. A guest artist of t he Leeds Inaugural Piano Festival\, she was also featured in Europe in sol o recitals presented by the Mozarteum Summer Series in Salzburg\, and in C hina\, in a six-concert tour under the auspices of the Shenzhen Piano Musi c Festival. She was honored to be a Young Scholar of the Lang Lang Foundat ion\, a young artist of the Artemisia Akademie at Yale\, and a recipient o f the US Chopin Foundation scholarships for four consecutive years.\nChels ea’s passion for piano was mirrored by her love of singing from an early age. Having debuted as a pianist with the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra at a ge nine\, she returned in 2018 as a vocal soloist under the baton of Maest ro Muhai Tang. She has been recognized for her vocal gifts as a 2019 Natio nal YoungArts winner\, the first prize winner in the 2019 Schmidt Voice Co mpetition\, and recipient of scholarships from the George London and Gerda Lissner foundations.\nChelsea graduated with honors from the Juilliard Sc hool’s Pre-College as a double major in piano and classical voice. She i s currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music in piano at Juilliard College und er the tutelage of Hung-Kuan Chen and continuing her vocal studies with Lo rraine Nubar and Jason Ferrante.\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMendelsso hn: Songs without words Op.117\; Prelude and Fugue Op. 35 No. 1\nBach: P artita No 5 in G major\nMedtner: Four Lyrical Fragments Op. 23\nChopin: Ma zurkas Op. 33\; Barcarolle Op. 60'\, Op. 28\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Ti ckets\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://i0.wp.com/grandpianoseries.org/wp-conten t/uploads/2023/01/DSC_3139_kateliu-4.webp?fit=680%2C386&ssl=1 CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Easter X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Easter BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210904T230000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:-05 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR