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URL:https://grandpianoseries.org/events/mike-lee/
SUMMARY:Mike Lee
DESCRIPTION:\n\nBIOGRAPHY\n\n\nAwarded Second Prize and Audience Prize at t
 he 2011 Westfield International Fortepiano Competition by a jury that incl
 uded Robert Levin and the late Christopher Hogwood\, New Zealand (forte)pi
 anist Mike Cheng-Yu Lee’s performances have been described as “portray
 ing integrity\, purity\, complexity and truth… with balance and control 
 that are breathtaking.” Peter Jacobi of the Bloomington Herald Times wri
 tes: "As a keyboard performer\, Lee really is a major talent\, no doubt ab
 out it…[his] Mozart was absolutely radiant\, a lesson in refinement mixe
 d with deep devotion."\n​An advocate of pianos that span the eighteenth 
 century to the present\, Mike has appeared with the New World Symphony at 
 the invitation of Michael Tilson Thomas and has collaborated with musician
 s including Joseph Lin (Juilliard String Quartet)\, the Formosa Quartet\, 
 and Cynthia Roberts among others that integrate modern and period instrume
 nts.\n\n​Recent performances and guest teachings have taken him to Oberl
 in Conservatory\, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor\, 23Arts Festival (
 NY)\, Mayfest Chamber Music Festival (NY)\, the Bloomington Early Music Fe
 stival (IN) and others. Current projects include the complete cycle of Moz
 art’s piano sonatas and “Beethoven Perspectives\,” a series of lectu
 re-recitals that explore connections between works by Beethoven and others
 .\n\n​In 2015-17 Mike was Visiting Assistant Professor/Post-Doctoral Sch
 olar at the Jacobs School of Music\, Indiana University-Bloomington and ha
 s served as Lecturer of music theory at Yale University. As a published mu
 sic theorist he has presented on issues of musical form\, performance prac
 tice\, and musical embodiment at a number of conferences\, including the S
 ociety of Music Theory and the European Music Analysis Conference.\n\n​I
 n July 2017 Mike joins the Australian National University\, School of Musi
 c as Lecturer of Performance and Director of the ANU Keyboard Institute\, 
 which houses the southern hemisphere’s largest collection of historical 
 pianos. Mike Cheng-Yu Lee studied at the Yale School of Music and holds a 
 Ph.D. in musicology from Cornell University. His teachers have included Ma
 lcolm Bilson\, Boris Berman\, and the renowned Haydn scholar James Webster
 .\n\n​The recital features three piano sonatas by Haydn\, Mozart\, and B
 eethoven performed on a copy of Mozart's personal fortepiano by Anton Walt
 er. All three composers shared intimate relationships with Walter's pianos
 \, who was considered by many to be the finest builder in Vienna towards t
 he end of the 18th century: Haydn had one at his disposal at the Esterház
 y court where he worked for the greater part of his career\, Mozart bought
  one shortly after he moved to Vienna on which he performed his mature pia
 no concertos\, and Beethoven at one point requested Walter to build him su
 ch an instrument. The recital seeks to uncover further expressive potentia
 ls of this familiar repertoire through the lens of late 18th century aesth
 etics of sound\, and in the case of Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata\, a los
 t romantic sensibility.\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMozart: Piano So
 nata N. 14 in c minor K. 457\nHaydn: Piano Sonata in C Major\, Hob. XVI:48
 \nBeethoven: Piano Sonata quasi una Fantasia N. 14\, Op. 27 N. 2 "Moonligh
 t"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets\n\n
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