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SUMMARY:Lang Lang Foundation Scholars
DESCRIPTION:\n\nBIOGRAPHY\n\nJeffrey Chin is 18 years old and attends the J
 uilliard School as a Pre-College student of Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blacks
 tone from 2016-2019 where he will graduate in May 2019. In the Fall of 201
 9\, he will attend San Francisco Conservatory of Music as a student of Dr.
  Yoshikazu Nagai to study piano performance. Prior to entering Pre-College
  at Juilliard\, he studied piano with Larry Graham and Jasmine Steadman in
  Denver\, Colorado. He is a Young Scholar of the Lang Lang International M
 usic Foundation (2018-2020). Jeffrey has won prizes in many piano competit
 ions including the Steinway Piano Concerto Competition at age 11 which all
 owed him to perform Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor with the Color
 ado Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the National Repertory 
 Orchestra\, Breckenridge Symphony Orchestra\, Boulder Symphony Orchestra\,
  Colorado Chamber Orchestra\, Lamont Summer Academy Orchestra\, and the Mi
 dwest Young Artist Orchestra. In 2014\, he was named Top Performer in Juni
 or Category by the Young Musicians Foundation of Colorado. In 2014\, he wo
 n Second Prize at the International Keyboard Odyssiad and Festival. In 201
 5-2016\, he won First Place in the MTNA Junior Piano Competition in Colora
 do and the West Central Division MTNA\, and advanced to become a MTNA Nati
 onal Finalist. In 2016\, he was a the Third Prize Winner in the Midwest In
 ternational Piano Competition. He attended the Aspen Music Festival and Sc
 hool in 2015-2017 where he was selected for masterclasses with Arie Vardi\
 , Stephen Hough and Inon Barnatan. During his first Pre-College year at Ju
 illiard\, he was named a Fellow of the Artemisia Academia at Yale Universi
 ty and had a masterclass with Boris Berman. Jeffrey was a Young Artist in 
 the 2018 PianoTexas Festival. He also participated in the Oxford Piano Fes
 tival in July 2018\, where he performed in masterclasses with Yoheved Kapl
 insky\, Marios Papadopoulos and Niel Immelman. He is ranked in the top 16 
 percent of his high school class at the International Connections Academy 
 where he will graduate in June 2019.\n​\n\n16-year-old Shuheng Zhang has
  been passionate about music ever since he started piano lessons. He is a 
 proud Young Scholar of The Lang Lang International Foundation and joined t
 he Young Scholar Program which is aimed to identify and offer mentorship\,
  tutelage\, and unique opportunities for performance to limited number of 
 exceptionally talented young pianists from around the world. Chicago Music
  report lauded Shuheng’s performance of Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 wit
 h Midwest Young Artists Orchestra as “invigorating\, incisive\, and note
 -perfect account”\,” establishing an agreeable report with Dr. Dennis 
 as they exchanged pleasantries in the composer’s conversational rondo”
 .\n\nShuheng has won top prizes in many competitions such as Thousand Isla
 nds International Competition\, David Dubois Piano Competition\, Lee Unive
 rsity International Piano Competition\, MTNA and MMTA Competitions. He has
  been featured as soloist and performed concerti with orchestras\, from Al
 fred\, NY to Saarlouis\, Germany. A frequent participant in prestigious mu
 sic festivals\, Shuheng attended Lang Lang International Foundation 2016 A
 llianz Junior Music Camp held in Poland\, 2017 Gina Bachauer International
  Piano Festival at Salt Lake City\, USA\, 2018 Emil Gilels International P
 iano Festival in Freiburg\, Germany. In the past Summer\, he participated 
 the 6th Emanacja International Music Festival in Lusławice\, Poland and p
 erformed a highly acclaimed recital together with two other Lang Lang youn
 g scholars at the at The Krzysztof Penderecki European Center for Music. H
 e is invited by the Leeds International Piano Festival to give two concert
 s in Leeds and London\, UK\, in March and April 2019 Shuheng has performed
  in masterclasses given by renowned pianists such as Paulina Dokovska\, Se
 an Duggan\, Gerald Fauth\, Douglas Humphreys\, Lang\, Robert Levin\, Panay
 is Lyras\, John O’Conor\, Jacques Rouvier and Nelita True\, among others
 \, and been praised for his sensitivity\, interpretation and musicianship.
 \n\nShuheng studies piano With Dr. Logan Skelton of University of Michigan
 .\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeffrey Chin\, Piano\n\n​Beethoven: Pi
 ano Sonata No. 30\, Op. 109\nScriabin: Piano sonata No. 2\, Op. 19\n\nShuh
 eng Zhang\, Piano\n\nHaydn: Sonata in E Major Hob. XVI:31\nDebussy: Prélu
 des Book 1\nIV. Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir.\nV.Le
 s collines d'Anacapri.\n\nDebussy: Préludes Book 2\nV. Bruyères\nXII. Fe
 ux d'artifice\n\nChopin: Nocturne in D flat Major\, Op. 27 No.2\nChopin: E
 tude Op. 25 No.11 Winter Wind\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets\n\n
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