About this Event
As a departure from our regular recital series, you are invited to a special concert by Steinway Artist Hsing-ay Hsu, who will take us on an adventurous and multi-dimensional listening experience exploring the expressive quality of piano music and fashion.
Using images of dresses that were recently on view at the Met Museum, Hsing-ay has curated piano pieces ranging from Bach to Ives to specifically connect to the emotions embodied in fashion and music.
A versatile concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, Hsing-ay Hsu is described as full of “power, authority, and self-assurance" (The Washington Post) and "an explosion of energy" (The New York Times). Since making her stage debut at age 4, Hsing-ay has performed at notable venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, and abroad in Asia and Europe.
Born in Beijing, Hsing-ay studied piano with her parents and her uncle Fei-Ping Hsu, and later with Herbert Stessin at Juilliard and Claude Frank at Yale. She has won numerous international competitions and was named a US Presidential Scholar of the Arts by President Clinton.
As owner of Nutmeg Studio NYC, Hsing-ay regularly gives masterclasses and Conscious Listening™ seminars to festivals and institutions, and releases YouTube videos every Thursday on her channel HsingayHsu.
Programs:
J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp Minor, WTC Book 1
A-Mao Wang: Dan
Scott Joplin: Eugenia
William Bolcom: Dream Shadows
Frederic Chopin: Etude Op.25 No.1
Clara Schumann: Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major
Morton Feldman: Two Intermissions
Claude Debussy: Prelude from "La Damoiselle Élue"
François Couperin: La Princesse Marie from Vingtième Ordre (1730)
Francis Poulenc: Improvisation #13 in A minor
Claude Debussy: Étude pour huit doigts (eight fingers)
Béla Bartok: Improvisation on Romanian Folk Songs #2
Alexander Scriabin: Prelude Op.11 No.9 in E major
Charles Ives: "The Alcotts" from the Concord Sonata
Henry Mancini: Moon River
Doors open at 7pm, and the performance will start at 7:30pm. You are welcome to stay for the post-concert dessert and drinks reception with Hsing-ay. For this special occasion, cocktail attire suggested.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1200 Broadway, 1200 Broadway, New York, United States
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