Music on Thursdays
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Jiali Wang
piano
Programme
The programme below was replaced with music by Schoenberg & Brahms
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la nuit Chamberlain of the Night M 55 (1908)
1 Ondine Undine the water nymph
2 Le Gibet The Gibbet
3 Scarbo Scarbo the goblin
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1872-1915)
Étude in C-sharp minor Op 42 No 5 (1903)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Étude d'exécution transcendante S139 (1851)
Transcendental Étude No 12 in Bb minor
Chasse-neige Snow whirls
Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849)
Polonaise-Fantasise in A-flat major Op 61 (1846)
Concert duration approx: 45-50 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
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la nuit Chamberlain of the Night M 55 (1908) (25m)
1 Ondine Undine the water nymph
2 Le Gibet The Gibbet
3 Scarbo Scarbo the goblin
Our concert opens with a recording of Lucas Debargue performing at the Tippet Rise Art Center, an unusually seasonal location which you can read about here.
Although having an intimate acoustic, the Olivier Music Barn has a very high roof, and is set in Montana, beneath the Beartooth Mountains, north of Yellowstone National Park:
Gaspard de la nuit Chamberlain of the Night M 55 (1908) (25m)
1 Ondine Undine the water nymph
2 Le Gibet The Gibbet
3 Scarbo Scarbo the goblin
Our concert opens with a recording of Lucas Debargue performing at the Tippet Rise Art Center, an unusually seasonal location which you can read about here.
Although having an intimate acoustic, the Olivier Music Barn has a very high roof, and is set in Montana, beneath the Beartooth Mountains, north of Yellowstone National Park:
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (1872-1915)
Étude in C-sharp minor Op 42 No 5 (1903) (3m)
Live from the Musikbrauerei, Berlin, we hear Daniil Trifonov:
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Étude d'exécution transcendante S139 (1851)
Transcendental Étude No 12 in Bb minor
Chasse-neige Snow whirls (6m)
Winner of the Scottish International Piano Competition 2017 and first prize winner of the 10th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in 2018, where he also won the Chamber Music Prize, let us hear Turkish pianist Can Çakmur
(pronounced: Djahn Tchakmur):
Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849)
Polonaise-Fantasise in A-flat major Op 61 (1846) (13m)
For this final work this is Aimi Kobayashi, from Japan, playing in the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, in the - twice delayed - 18th Chopin Competition:
Previous concert
1 June 2023 - Matthew Chin, violin, & Eunji Han, piano - click here
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15 June 2023 - Francisco Correa & David Massey, classical guitar duo- click here
