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Jiali Wang
piano
Programme
Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit (25:mins)
1 Ondine
2 Le Gibet
3 Scarbo
Scriabin
Étude in C-sharp minor Op 42 No 5 (3mins)
Liszt
Transcendental Étude No 12 Chasse neige (6mins)
Chopin
Polonaise-fantasise in A-flat major Op 61 (10 mins)
Concert duration approx: 45 minutes
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Jiali Wang
Chinese concert pianist Jiali Wang is a passionate and accomplished musician with a wide range of experiences performing as a soloist and working with other instrumentalists and composers, covering various musical genres.
Her infectious enthusiasm, playing with a virtuoso technique and vibrancy, has brought her to prestigious venues all over the world such as Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Helsinki Temppeliaukio Rock Church, Xinghai Symphony Orchestral Hall, New York University Concert Hall, Xiamen Concert Hall, London's Regent Hall, among others.
She is also a creative performer of contemporary music and has consistently premiered solo and chamber works in music festivals
such as RAM Students Create and Piano Summer Festival. She is currently doing her BMus 4 at the Royal Academy of Music under Professor Christopher Elton with a substantial scholarship.
Jiali began her career by winning the gold award of the Beijing Music Festival Competition, where she gave the prizewinner recital in honour of Chinese Piano Music in Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. In 2011, she won the 11th Beijing Xiwang Cup National Piano Competition and was invited to give performances of the same concert series with Lang Lang in Peking University.
At the 2017 Gershwin International Music Competition (New York), Jiali was the winner of the Gold Medal. She has also been a prize winner of many important national and international competitions, including first prize of the Alion Baltic International Piano Competition (Tallinn); first prize of the Harbin International Piano Music Festival Competition; Highly Commended in the Chopin International Junior Piano Competition (Russia). In 2022, she won the Harold Samuel Prize and Very Highly Commended in the Harriet Cohen Bach Competition. She also won First Place of the 2022 RAM Piano Duo Competition.
Jiali has also appeared in famous music festivals, as well as having many masterclasses worldwide with maestros such as Professor Arie Vardi, Alexander Toradze, Ian Hobson, Hung-Kuan Chen, Jerome Lowenthal and Oxana Yablonskaya.
Based on her achievements during undergraduate studies and her excellent playing in audition, Jiali has been chosen for the MMus course starting in September 2023. She will continue her studies at the Royal Academy of Music with a generous scholarship.
Her infectious enthusiasm, playing with a virtuoso technique and vibrancy, has brought her to prestigious venues all over the world such as Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Helsinki Temppeliaukio Rock Church, Xinghai Symphony Orchestral Hall, New York University Concert Hall, Xiamen Concert Hall, London's Regent Hall, among others.
She is also a creative performer of contemporary music and has consistently premiered solo and chamber works in music festivals
such as RAM Students Create and Piano Summer Festival. She is currently doing her BMus 4 at the Royal Academy of Music under Professor Christopher Elton with a substantial scholarship.
Jiali began her career by winning the gold award of the Beijing Music Festival Competition, where she gave the prizewinner recital in honour of Chinese Piano Music in Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. In 2011, she won the 11th Beijing Xiwang Cup National Piano Competition and was invited to give performances of the same concert series with Lang Lang in Peking University.
At the 2017 Gershwin International Music Competition (New York), Jiali was the winner of the Gold Medal. She has also been a prize winner of many important national and international competitions, including first prize of the Alion Baltic International Piano Competition (Tallinn); first prize of the Harbin International Piano Music Festival Competition; Highly Commended in the Chopin International Junior Piano Competition (Russia). In 2022, she won the Harold Samuel Prize and Very Highly Commended in the Harriet Cohen Bach Competition. She also won First Place of the 2022 RAM Piano Duo Competition.
Jiali has also appeared in famous music festivals, as well as having many masterclasses worldwide with maestros such as Professor Arie Vardi, Alexander Toradze, Ian Hobson, Hung-Kuan Chen, Jerome Lowenthal and Oxana Yablonskaya.
Based on her achievements during undergraduate studies and her excellent playing in audition, Jiali has been chosen for the MMus course starting in September 2023. She will continue her studies at the Royal Academy of Music with a generous scholarship.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet in D major K285 (arr CarmenCo)
1 Allegro • 2 Adagio • 3 Rondo
Ensemble Connect are performing in the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, Manhattan:
Flute Quartet in D major K285 (arr CarmenCo)
1 Allegro • 2 Adagio • 3 Rondo
Ensemble Connect are performing in the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, Manhattan:
Sir Edward William Elgar (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures Op 37 (1897-99) (arr CarmenCo)
Sea-Slumber Song (text: Roden Noel)
In Haven (Capri) (text: Caroline Alice Elgar, composer's wife)
Where Corals Lie (text: Richard Garnett)
Sea-Slumber Song is performed here by Niamh O'Sullivan, mezzo-soprano, and Chia-Lun Hsu, piano, at Munich's Hochschule für Musik und Theater.
In this instrumental version of In Haven (Capri) Julian Lloyd Webber plays cello, John Lenehan is at the piano.
We are going to make the potentially rash assumption that you are up to speed with popular Christmas music.
Here are some less frequently heard parts of the repertoire, beginning with Buxtehude's lovely In Dulci Jubilo, performed in St Peter's Lutheran Cathedral, Hamburg, by Catherina Witting, soprano, Tiina Zahn, alto, Dávid Csizmár, bass, with Katharina Wulf, violin, Verena Fischer-Zernin, violin 2, and Lukas Henke, directing from the organ.
Standing under the Great Octagon is the Choir of Ely Cathedral. They will help us to cover one of the ethnic minorities we so rarely consider. How will they do so? By singing While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night, to a great Yorkshire tune. Please enjoy this familiar melody and this wonderful choir and organ:
For the next item, let's stay IN a church, but not with churchy music. Here is Thomas Trotter's arrangement for organ of Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride. The organist in Waltham Abbey Church is Jonathan Lilley.
Here comes a lockdown special from our very own Jonathan Holmes, playing the Father Willis organ at St Mary's Ewell (on which he gives frequent recitals). It is Canadian composer Denis Bédard's Toccata on Il Est Né le Divin Enfant.
Georgi Muschel's Toccata from his Suite Ouzbèke builds to a proper bit of "chucking out music" - a less polite interpretation of the term "postlude". It does what is required quite nicely and fits well for Christmas.
The organist here is Marie-Agnès Grall-Menet, and the organ is in the church of St-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet Paris 5e. The instrument has had so many builders, rebuilders, and restorers that you are best watching the screen closely at the start if you want to know who has had a hand in it!
You are probably ready for a cup of tea by now. You should be able to get a table in this food court:
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