BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:58@grandpianoseries.org DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Easter:20210621T193000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Easter:20210621T210000 DTSTAMP:20230731T002049Z URL:https://grandpianoseries.org/events/sophie-shao/ SUMMARY:Sophie Shao DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nCellist Sophie Shao\, winner of the prestigious Avery F isher Career Grant and top prizes at the Rostropovich and Tchaikovsky comp etitions\, is a versatile and passionate artist whose performances the New York Times has noted as “eloquent\, powerful” and the Washington Post called “deeply satisfying.”\n\n\n\n\nShao has appeared as soloist to critical acclaim throughout the United States: the Smith Center in Las Veg as\, Lied Center in Lincoln\, Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa\, California\, the Palladium in Carmel\, Indiana\, the Walter Reade Theater and Rose Stu dio at Lincoln Center. Last season she performed the UK premiere of Howard Shore’s concerto “Mythic Gardens” with Keith Lockhart and the BBC C oncert Orchestra at the Watford Colosseum in Watford\, England and with Lu dwig Wicki and the 21st Century Orchestra at the KKL in Lucerne\, Switzerl and. Other past concerto performances include Haydn and Elgar Concerti wit h Lockhart and the BBC Concert Orchestra\, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto w ith Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony\, Richard Wilson’s “The Cello H as Many Secrets” with the American Symphony Orchestra\, and has returned with the ASO to perform Saint-Saens’s “La muse et la poete” at the Bard Music Festival.\n\nMs. Shao has given recitals in Suntory Hall in Tok yo\, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society\, Middlebury College\, Walter Reade Theater and Rose Studio in Lincoln Center\, the complete Bach Suites at Union College and in New York City. Her dedication to chamber music ha s conceived her popular “Sophie Shao and Friends” groups which have to ured from Brattleboro\, VT to Sedona\, AZ\, while other exciting collabora tions include Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera with Cho-Liang Lin\, performances wi th the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\, Chamber Music Northwest\, and Music Mountain (with the Shanghai Quartet)\, among many other present ers across the country. She is a frequent guest at many leading festivals around the country including Caramoor\, Chamber Music Northwest\, Bravo! V ail Valley Music Festival\, Music from Angel Fire\, the Bard Festival\, an d Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival\, and was a member of Chamber Music Soci ety Two\, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s program for emerging young artists.\n\nMs. Shao’s recordings include the Complete Bach Suite s to be available this season\, Andre Previn’s Reflections for Cello and English Horn and Orchestra on EMI Classics\, Richard Wilson’s Diablerie and Brash Attacks and Barbara White’s My Barn Having Burned to the Grou nd\, I Can Now See the Moon on Albany Records\, Howard Shore’s original score for the movie The Betrayal on Howe Records\, and the music of George Tsontakis on Koch Records. Her performance of Howard Shore’s “Mythic Gardens” has just been released along with Lang Lang’s performance of “Ruins and Memory” on Sony Classical.\n\nA native of Houston\, Texas\, Ms. Shao began playing the cello at age six\, and was a student of Shirle y Trepel\, former principal cellist of the Houston Symphony. At age thirte en she enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia\, studyin g cello with David Soyer. After graduating from the Curtis Institute\, she continued her cello studies with Aldo Parisot at Yale University\, receiv ing a B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale College and an M.M. from the Yal e School of Music\, where she was enrolled as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fello w. She is on the faculty of Vassar College and plays on a cello made by Ho nore Derazey from 1855 once owned by Pablo Casals\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nBach: from Cello Suite in C Major\, BWV 1009: 1. Prelude 5. Bour rées I &\; II 6. Gigue\nChopin: Sonata for Cello and Piano in g minor Op. 65\nDvorak: Rondo Op. 94 No. 5\nDvorak: Silent Woods\, From the Bohemi an Forest Op. 68 No. 5\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/DSC_3139_kateliu-30.webp?fit=499%2C283&ssl=1 CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Easter X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Easter BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20210403T210000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:-06 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR